Community Dining recently hosted its first community engagement dinner focusing on the topic of wrongful convictions featuring Judy Royal, law professor and co-director of the Women’s Project of the Center on Wrongful Convictions, which she co-founded with professor...
According to 18th century judge, jurist, and politician William Blackstone in his treatise on the common law of England, “It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.” Prussian Statesman Otto Von Bismarck, on the other hand,...
FamilyFarmed is a national leader in building the Good Food movement and developing regional, sustainable food systems. Its annual Good Food Festival & Conference — America’s longest-running sustainable and local food trade show — brings together key...
I believe there exists a need to let more people know about how to find healthy, affordable food in Chicago, so I like to periodically share special offers from places that I support. Also, for those who are not aware, I have compiled a comprehensive list of every...
Spontaneous order refers to the idea that “stable macro-level patterns—those things that make a complex system a system, an instance of order rather than disorder or randomness — do not come about through design, planning or imposition, but arise instead from the...
In a previous e-mail, I discussed various possible root causes of the decline in social engagement and community participation along with the potential consequences. I also discussed the benefits of community participation and how we can use community dining as a...
