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February 2010

Brilliant Avatar critique misses important point

A reader from South Africa, Pam Sykes, alerted me to an absolutely fascinating and devastating review of Avatar, in which there is much truth and a wealth of sci-fi and fantasy background information. http://asubtleknife.wordpress.com/2010/01/10/l…

Learning from Haiti: Seven Ways to Respond to Crises

This article was written for a progressive magazine which asked for an updated version of my earlier essay on the Haitian crisis. http://bit.ly/7pJ0iF I decided that rather than updating it I would reorganize it to reflect some deeper dynamics I s…

Avatar and making all the difference in the world….

I want to highlight new developments that have come to light concerning one part of my Jan 27 piece “Avatar is stimulating some very juicy conversation…” http://bit.ly/AvatarJuicy which, it turns out, was read by leaders of the Pachamama* Allian…