Sublime

If landing a decent job requires a college degree or training in other skills, then it is incumbent upon society to ensure access for all its members.

Chuck Proudfit,

Sternin went to Vietnam to try to help starving children. Rather than importing tactics that he knew would work, or outside techniques that he was sure could make a difference, he sought out the few families who weren’t starving, the few moms who weren’t just getting by but were thriving. And then he made it easy for these mothers to share their in

Here was a woman who taught early-morning aerobics, cut hair by day, waited tables at night, and in her spare time freelanced as a bookkeeper and took courses at a local college. She was putting in more hours than many of the women I interviewed. But in her mind, if she had to work this hard for so little, what would it take to earn more? She could

Process and solution should be driven by the community;

I think a lot of women are doing this now, with more homeschooling, with community projects, with educational projects that operate a little bit outside the norms of our patriarchal education system. This is how we ensure the land has good future caretakers.

block chain—its potential is being explored right now—dramatically reduces the volunteer coordinator problem because it has figured out a decentralized way to reward people for building the basic infrastructure on which everything else hangs.