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Four-day work week as a sustainable option
Scientific American reports that the a four-day work week can have positive economic benefits and help reduce carbon.
Social Justice and the Arts
Although I am not overwhelmed by the examples included in this Community Arts Network article by San Francisco Public Health official Maria Martinez, it is great to see public officials making this connection between creative inquiry and many of today’s social, economic and environmental dilemmas. What if she pushed her argument just a little further in recognition that these creative inquiries do not necessarily always come from people who self-identify as artists, but are often the very same people working for social change within their communities? The more that people from a variety of backgrounds can feel ownership over words like “arts” and “creativity” the greater the potential of those tools for change.
A recent, not entirely unrelated, example of how creative minds can envision new ways of visualizing complex issues is this infographic in last week’s New York Times.
