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What Al Gore Missed: The Ecological Importance of the Cultural Commons

The recommendations for reducing consumerism that appear at the end of Al Gore's book, An Inconvenient Truth, represent how language may contribute to enclosing the cultural commons. No one can deny that Gore's list of behaviors for reducing consumerism is good common sense. But a list of what thoughtful people are already doing is no substitute for suggesting a more radical approach to reducing our dependence upon the consumerism that is contributing to global warming-which his book documents so well.

http://www.spiritualprogressives.org/article.php?story=20070124060458368

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What's Culture Got to Do with HIV and AIDS? Why the global strategy for HIV and AIDS needs to adopt a cultural approach [pdf]

This HealthLink paper reports the initial findings from a project entitled HIV/AIDS: The Creative Challenge, which was developed by Creative Exchange in partnership with Exchange and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). (by Helen Gould, Creative Exchange, Healthlink Worldwide, 2007)

http://www.healthlink.org.uk/PDFs/findings7_hiv_culture.pdf

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World Not Neatly Divided

To talk about "the Islamic world" or "the Western world" is already to adopt an impoverished vision of humanity as unalterably divided. In fact, civilizations are hard to partition in this way, given the diversities within each society as well as the linkages among different countries and cultures. by Amartya Sen, November 23, 2001 New York Times.

http://www.cis.ksu.edu/~ab/Miscellany/sen.html

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