Category: Health & Security

A Man’s Home is His Castle

Andrea Cordonier

Community, Health & Security, Social & Affordable Housing, Sociology & Psychology

The mission of the Fortune Society, founded in 1967 in New York City, “is to support successful reentry from prison and promote alternatives to incarcerations, thus strengthening the fabric of our communities.” Their slogan is “Building people not prisons.” Read more
Me As the Centre of the Universe

Andrea Cordonier

Health & Security, Sociology & Psychology

I suspect that egocentricity is an evolutionary tool for survival. We are bombarded daily by media reports on environmental and man-made disasters and we’d have an awfully difficult time with day-to-day functioning if we couldn’t filter the overwhelming and turn inward to our happy place. When disastrous world events happen we pull out our chequebooks… Read more