The Breakthrough Institute: Boston Phoenix on Break Through: Print This

The Breakthrough Institute is a small think tank with big ideas. Breakthrough is committed to creating a new progressive politics, one that is large, aspirational, and asset-based. We believe that any effective politics must speak to core needs and values, not issues and interests, and we thus situate ourselves at the intersection of politics, policy, philosophy, and the social sciences.

Boston Phoenix on Break Through

A great review of Break Through at the Boston Phoenix.

Nordhaus and Shellenberger's philosophy requires big thinking: Internet-scale government investment in clean-energy technologies (which will create a new clean-energy economy), adaptation to and preparation for unavoidable climate changes, and a "new social contract" that protects individual autonomy while recognizing the relationship between politics and social fulfillment.

Posted by Michael Shellenberger on September 25, 2007 5:47 PM