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Solutionaries Spotlight: Building Micro-houses for the Homeless 26 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
Image courtesy KSL screenshot. Often all you need to be a solutionary is to get an idea that helps create a better world and then make it happen. Gary Pickering saw a man who was homeless walking do...
8 Strategies for Helping Others Open Themselves to (New) Humane Ideas 22 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
Image courtesy Discovery Education/Flickr As humane educators, we’re passionate about creating a better world for people, animals, and the earth. And when we’re so focused on inspiring others to open...
Finding Purpose in Prison 20 Aug 2013 | 10:03 pm
Image courtesy of Kate Ter Haar/Flickr. Four years ago I wrote a blog post titled “What Is Prison For?” Prison was on my mind because I’d been reflecting on jury duty and the moral challenge I faced,...
One Small Step: Volunteering as a Humane Educator 19 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
Image courtesy of edenpictures/Flickr. When it comes to launching into humane education, inertia and trepidation can take hold: What if I don’t know enough/I’m not good enough? What if my audience is...
Why We Need Humane Education: Because Shiny Objects Can Cause Us to Alter Our Values 15 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
I have a confession. I’ve knowingly been contributing to the genocide of orangutans and the destruction of the rainforest. I’ve been supporting war, sweatshops, the pollution of our oceans, and the ri...
Message in a $20 Bottle (of Water) 14 Aug 2013 | 02:07 am
Take a look at this Los Angeles Times article. Then take a look at The Story of Water video. Then do a bit of investigation on the Internet about fresh drinking water – its history, current availabi...
Why We Need Humane Education: Report Shows Public Supports Animal Welfare, Needs More Education 12 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
Some heartening news hails from the Humane Resource Council’s (HRC) latest Animal Tracker report: although the U.S. public feels less knowledgeable about animal issues, the number of people who believ...
What a Humane World Looks Like: To “Err in the Direction of Kindness” 8 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
Image courtesy of Steve.r/Flickr. Starting from a very young age, we learn something important: kindness is hard. In a society that celebrates individualism and condones selfishness; that has create...
Back to School for Solutions 7 Aug 2013 | 10:29 pm
Proposition 1: We are living in the least violent, least discriminatory and least cruel times in recorded human history. Proposition 2: There is a fairly simple path toward a truly peaceful, just and...
Humane Education Activity: Give Gender Bias the Flip 5 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
Book covers created by: Mellie Ryan; BGM; and Hilde Kuyper. There’s a theory held by a lot of advertisers, media producers and others, that boys don’t like what girls like and that girls sometimes li...
