NIMBY Psychology: Lunch-time Colloquium, Tufts University, 6 February 2013

6 February 2013 What’s Psychology Got to Do with NIMBY?:   Exploring the Deeper Meanings of Community Resistance to Proposed Housing Density Increases                   I spent several hours teaching and meeting with facultry at Tufts University during my month in Boston.   My hosts included Julian Aygeman,… Continue reading NIMBY Psychology: Lunch-time Colloquium, Tufts University, 6 February 2013

Silencing Dissent: charity begins at home

April 29, 2011 – 4:07 pm In an eco-village, there is more to life than managing weeds and water quality in the dams.   What we have learned about social reform and social change in Western countries over many decades is that burning books and silencing dissent are very dangerous practices. What is my dissenting… Continue reading Silencing Dissent: charity begins at home