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MBA Program Director

Even more Kunstler Kontent: Joyce Marcel's column in today's (June 12) Brattleboro Reformer

See: http://www.reformer.com/columnists/ci_9559914
Full text of article follows:

Our 'cheap oil fiesta' is over
By JOYCE MARCEL

Thursday, June 12
DUMMERSTON

It's the end of the world as we know it, and for a little while, at least, it sounds lovely.

More Kunstler Kontent: Today's (June 10th) Brattleboro Reformer editorial (reproduced below)

Copied from: http://www.reformer.com/editorials/ci_9537173

A post-oil future
Reformer.com

Tuesday, June 10
A day after crude oil prices jumped up to $139, the biggest one-day jump in history, author, urban planner and social critic James Howard Kunstler came to Brattleboro.

Kunstler's lecture at the Marlboro College Graduate Center on Saturday was well-attended, mostly by people who already have a good idea that something is not right with the American way of life as we now know it.

James Kunstler at the Marlboro College Graduate Center, June 7th - My Introduction

James Kunstler Intro

Welcome to the Marlboro College Graduate Center.

I’m Ralph Meima, director of the Marlboro College Graduate Center’s new MBA program.

Address to first MBA Cohort, 1/23/08

R. Meima, Jan. 23, 2008

= To the First Marlboro MBA Cohort =

= Intro =

Nicola Machiavelli considered human character to be quite varied, but saw each individual as fairly constant in character: some people were imbued with virtue, and others were evil. A successful Prince, however virtuous, could act evilly as needed, to enhance the position of a state.

What is human character? After all, management is about people in the many contexts we inhabit and roles we play. One traditional view of human character and the place of humans in larger Nature might be expressed as:

Community Energy Systems: New Prizes, Old Games

Renewable Community Energy: New Prizes, Old Games

We may be on the threshold of a discontinuity in the larger aspects of daily life. Driving it (no surprise) are rising energy costs, changing availabilities of energy media, and concerns about climate. The year 2018 may look a lot different from 2008. And one victim may be: the furnace in your basement!

Media Attention! An Interview with Me at SocialFunds.com

Please visit http://www.socialfunds.com/page.cgi/interview5.html for an interview between Jay Falk of SRI World (SocialFunds.com) and me.

Enjoy!

Ralph Meima

The Rise of Virtual Worlds and the Metaverse: Is Sustainable Growth a Real-World Possibility? Or only Virtually Possible?

MBA Blog, R. Meima, August 17, 2007

Is Sustainable Growth a Real-World Possibility? Or only Virtually Possible?
The Rise of Virtual Worlds and the Metaverse

Death of the Throwaway Society? The Lohasians Cometh!

Death of the Throwaway Society? The Lohasians Cometh!

Inaugural Blog (June 21, 2007) – Big energy finance – Another bubble?

Marlboro MBA Blog – Ralph Meima – June 21, 2007

Inaugural Blog – Energy finance – Another bubble?

Hello, dear reader! This is the first (I hope) of many blogs about our MBA program, sustainability-oriented management education, and the broader business world in which our program and others like it “live”.

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