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Author Archives: Priscilla Stuckey, PhD
Am I going to Rio+20?
That partly depends on you! I’m one of eight finalists for a fantastic blogging prize sponsored by tcktcktck, an organization that runs global campaigns for climate action. Tcktcktck will send one blogger to Rio in June to blog from the … Continue reading
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Tagged blogging, climate change, Rio+20
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Why do we need a local bill of rights?
You say you never heard of a local bill of rights? You’re not alone. I didn’t know much about it either until I attended Democracy School in February. Local or community bills of rights are ordinances that spell out certain natural rights … Continue reading
Early pasqueflower
I saw the first pasqueflower of the season this morning!
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Tagged climate change, global warming, native plants, pasqueflower, wildflowers
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Rolling back democracy
We learned in grade school about the Constitutional Convention, right? That summer of 1787 when the founding fathers gathered in Philadelphia to write the US Constitution? Many of us would be shocked to learn that what the framers of the Constitution did … Continue reading
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Tagged Articles of Confederation, Bill of Rights, Constitution, democracy, Democracy School, US history
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It’s a democracy problem
They billed it as the best education dollars I would ever spend, and having spent a lot of education dollars in my time, I now agree. What was it? The Democracy School in town a few weeks ago, otherwise known as … Continue reading