Category: government
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“Without expectation of return”: a glimpse of giving in the Amazon
In the opera house in Manaus, Brazil there’s an organ, gifted from the US in the early 1990s. The instrument sits in the lobby, cordoned off and unused – because no-one in Manaus knows how to either play or maintain it. Maybe you could forgive the Americans for their poor choice of gift. Because, although…
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Facing the future: how do we help unborn generations?
Acting on behalf of our descendants isn’t a new thing. Indigenous groups have long practised “seventh-generation thinking” – making decisions based on how they will affect people far into the future. Europeans began building enormous cathedrals that they would not live to enjoy – because it was the “right thing to do” for their children…
