Wall Street dominates the national news. Is there any limit to the avarice? Not much surprises us anymore. We cannot and should not allow ourselves to be jaded into accepting this level of corruption, now or in the future. What can we do about it? How can individual citizens support Congressional reform efforts and force Wall [...]
August/September 2010
ISSUE 8 Coffee has always been an integral part of maintaining our drive and energy to get-it-all-done. In this issue it’s all about coffee, its economic significance, sustainability, and even its position in politics. We explore the history of coffee and its contribution to global trade as well as the different socially and environmentally friendly [...]
A Review of Renting Lacy: A Story of America’s Prostituted Children
In Renting Lacy: A Story of America’s Prostituted Children, former U.S. Representative and founder of Shared Hope International, Linda Smith, exposes the truth of child trafficking and forced prostitution in the United States. Using a novel-style approach, the author presents the lives and experiences of prostituted children whose stories are based upon true events. The [...]
World Hunger – Be the Solution
This past May I undertook what many people considered an unusual project: I starved myself for seven days. Inspired by the actions of Kenda Swartz Pepper, I did a World Hunger Souljourn of my own; mimicking the diet of the world’s 1.02 billion chronically hungry people while researching and exploring the causes of, and the [...]
10 Tips for a Happier, More Productive Non-Profit
Sometimes it’s hard to remember why we got into non-profits; the long hours, budget cuts, donors that are increasingly harder to find and have less to give. But following these simple tips for a happier, more productive non-profit will allow your organization to spend less time on administration and more on pursuing its mission, and [...]
Good Morning, America: The Coffee Party Is Brewing
The whole Tea Party thing bothers me, as does any angry mob that operates under half-formed assumptions with an undertone of racism. The old adage, “Empty barrels make the most noise,” certainly applies here. Do any of the Tea Partiers actually study the issues against which they rebel, or are they merely reacting to the half-thought-out comments of politicians who [...]
A Peek Behind the Coffee Label
For Americans today, ethical consumption choices abound. Look around you in the supermarket and you will find products certified organic, fair trade, sustainable, made from recycled materials, and cruelty and hormone-free, to name but a few. Beyond the grocery store we are surrounded by hybrid and electric vehicles, sustainable wood products, and a multitude of [...]
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Sustenance
What’s Behind Your Cup of Joe?
Ah, coffee. What would we do without you? For centuries, people have worshiped the brew. It has long been such a prominent feature in social life that it has been memorialized in music, poems, literature, and film. For many in the United States, coffee, anyway you brew it, is an important part of a daily [...]
Mind and Body
The Boss Caught My Friend Stealing, and She Blames Me
Conducive advice columnist, Dr. Kathy Hahner, gives advice on how to deal with a friend who passes the blame for her own theft.
Think Tank
21 Days for World Hunger
1.02 billion people in the world go hungry every day according to the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations. That’s 1,020,000,000 people. I was tempted to round down and write 1 billion people in the world go hungry every day. It dawned on me that I would be doing a monumental disservice to [...]
Fiction, Film, Poetry
Reading Narratives of Adoption: An Interview with Dr. Marianne Novy
Misunderstandings and misconceptions continue to surround adoption. Especially critical is the idea of secrecy. Jennifer Kwon Dobbs had the opportunity to talk to Professor Marianne Novy about these issues. Marianne Novy was born in 1945 in Cleveland, Ohio, and was raised there by her adoptive parents, whom she joined when one month old. A pioneer [...]
Think Tank
Korea to Haiti: Lessons in Overseas Adoption Corruption
Arrested by Haitian authorities for trying to cross illegally into the Dominican Republic with 33 so-called orphaned children, whose parents were later found to be alive, U.S. citizens and Idaho Baptist missionaries Laura Silsby and Charisa Coulter remain imprisoned in Port-au-Prince pending investigation of alleged child trafficking. Seeking to save the children in the wake [...]
Mind and Body
Stressed Graduate Student
Dr. Mai Kieu-Loan offers relationship advice to a female law student and highlights the differences in how men and women handle dating in graduate school.
Mind and Body
Preserving Relationship with Parents Despite Their Disapproval Over New Job
Conducive advice columnist, Dr. Kathy Hahner, gives advice on preserving the relationship with one’s parents despite tension over a new do-gooder job.
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February/March 2010
ISSUE 6 DEPARTMENTS THINK TANK Adopting Haitian Orphans: Saving Children or Repeating Unsuccessful History? BY MIRAH RUBEN INNOVATIVE THINKING Using Evaluation to Evolve and Affect Change BY DR. MAI KIEU-LOAN What Can We Do About Suicide Among Asian Americans? BY BRIELLE NIKAIDO CRITICAL THINKING Fundamental Issue of Same-Sex Marriage BY M.C. WOOD EDITORIAL: Who are [...]
Columns
A Bronx Girl Goes Home
The murder of a cousin takes Conducive editor Heather Tirado Gilligan back to her home in the Bronx, and back to the childhood and experiences that continue to shape her.
Mind and Body
Using Anger Constructively
Conducive advice columnist, Dr. Kathy Hahner, gives advice on using anger constructively.
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