WS Sandbox

I am currently a student in my first year of law school at the College of Law at Florida International University in Miami, Florida.  After listening to an interview with Paul Hawken on NPR and reading his book Blessed Unrest, I decided to check out WiserEarth and ended up registering.  Living in Miami, Florida, in amongst the excesses of  urban sprawl and overdevelopment, and surrounded by the consumptive gluttony so characteristic of the South Florida lifestyle, it becomes all too easy to believe that I am alone in thinking about the bigger picture and the impact we all have on the larger world around us.  I am hoping that this website and its resources will allow me to connect with people and groups locally and globally who are not only interested, but who also feel driven and compelled to affect positive change in the world we live in.  I feel that we are all part of the problem and that we owe it to ourselves, our communities, and our life-giving planet to be part of the solution.  God speed.



"1492.  As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride
and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on
the continent of North America.  Actually, people had been living full
and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds
of years before that.  1492 was simly the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them"

             -Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
              
   
"In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed."          

                -John Rawls, Political Liberalism




             -Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker



"To each according to his threat advantage does not count as a principle of justice." 
  
             -John Rawls, A Theory of Justice