🌎 THE BETTER WORLD WEEKLY #182 💌

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Hey y'all,

Happy Monday!

Our first chile on our Chile Pequin is starting to turn. Apparently, these puppies are quite hot! It will be interesting to see what I can do with these when more are ready.

Enjoy this week's newsletter.

-Cory

P.S. - You can connect with me on LinkedIn.

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Manifesto for a Moral Revolution

Even with problems aplenty (climate change, inequality, political corruption) there are thankfully still many of us who want to be part of the problem-solving.

However, the world of change-makin’ isn’t always easy.

Our next steps aren’t always clear.

Effecting serious change takes a long time, maybe even a lifetime.

So, when faced with the inevitable difficult decisions, burnout, or the need for guidance, having a set of practices or principles to fall back on can be invaluable.

They can remind us of what’s important, offer us a tried and true way of looking at a problem a new, or just give us reassurance that we’re on the right path.

This book, Manifesto for a Moral Revolution: Practices to Build a Better World by Acumen Founder & CEO Jacqueline Novogratz might be able to help.

She wrote this book for the change-maker.

She wrote it for those of us who feel both frustrated with the state of the world but still hopeful and hungry to take action.

It’s first a call to action, making the case that what the world needs most right now is a shift in our moral calculus, what Novogratz calls a Moral Revolution.

A shift from “What’s in it for me?” to “What can I do for others?”.

Novogratz’s Manifesto offers a set of practices that she has been able to observe, extract, and articulate from a career of building a better world.

In this #ReadEnsemble Video, I’ll summarize each of the 13 practices she shared as well as some of my takeaways so that you and I might be able to join in this moral revolution ourselves.

If you’d like to get a copy of this book yourself, support smaller booksellers and turn to folks like Bookshop.org, Better World Books, or of course your own local indie bookstore. Practice

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Thanks for reading!

I'll be back next Monday with another edition of The Better World Weekly.

Let's build a better world, together.

-Cory

CORY AMES - @AmesCory​

Founder & CEO, Grow Ensemble

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