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Winning with a New Wedge: Reconceptualizing Health Care |
The chance for health care reform happening in Washington DC seems more likely today than since the failure of the Clinton health plan in 1994. So how can health care reformers learn from past failed efforts and advance an expansive new agenda? Through our work with the Herndon Alliance and Lake Research Partners, we looked at what motivates worldviews around health and developed four Strategic Initiatives that have the potential to create new support for health care reform. Learn more > 
 | After the Storm: Developing Post-Katrina Strategic Initiatives |
After the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, the Nathan Cummings Foundation funded the Breakthrough Institute and Center for American Progress to work with American Environics in response to this crisis. We sought to create Strategic Initiatives that not only addressed the needs and vulnerabilities that the hurricane exposed, but that laid the framework for a new social contract for the postindustrial economy we live in. Learn more >  | Creating Communities: Dropping Knowledge |
AE worked with Dropping Knowledge to analyze different theories of social change in order to determine the most effective role the organization could play in creating change. The result was an exploration of the meaning and power of pre-political affiliative communities that meet postmodern needs for status, belonging and fulfillment. Learn more > |
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Rx for Health Care Reform
American Environics conducted an analysis of health care reform narratives, conducted psychographic focus groups and polling, and created four Strategic Initiatives on health care. View the presentation > 
Get Ready: A Plan for Global Warming Preparedness
Global Warming Preparedness is a Strategic Initiative designed to overcome the fears and doubts about climate change among voters. Read more > Fresh Start: The Redemptive Power of Work
A proposal for a new social contract for the postindustrial economy grounded in the shared American belief in the transformative power of work. Read more > The Evolution of Global Values
How are social values changing worldwide, what are these changes in reaction to, and what kinds of opportunities do they create? Read the report > |
