When all the cans in your home have been recycled—when you compost, grow your own vegetables, and bike to work—will that be enough? The recent influx of ‘green’ products, lifestyle choices, and ideas is a good herald for the kind of world we have the potential to create. But it doesn’t address the core of why we’ve got the world we have now. The solution is Most Good, Least Harm by humane educator and author Zoe Weil.
Most Good, Least Harm offers a simple approach to all the challenges that confront our world today, and the people, animals, and ecosystems that are affected. People today are filled with hope and eager to participate in positive change that enriches their own lives as they make a difference for others.
Humane Education is more than just ethics and environmentalism. It’s about choosing the Most Good—MOGO—for every interaction you do. By understanding the potential for amazing, unlimited change within ourselves, we suddenly become aware that our homes, communities, cities, countries, and even the world can be affected by the actions of one person. Rather than feeling overwhelmed by guilt for buying a product or not recycling that can, readers can immediately grasp solutions that make the political personal—and take their power to a whole new level.
Fully aware that the world and its inhabitants face many dire problems that are both overwhelming and complex, Weil nevertheless sets forth a guiding principle for each person to use in searching for solutions that are anything but complicated.
—Our Hen House
This book is both an inspiration and a tool for action.
—Natural Life Magazine
With an amazingly useful way of thinking and acting, Most Good, Least Harm is multi-faceted in its utility. It offers specific ways to do things that do more good, or at least do less harm to the planet and the population. It centers essentially on a cost-benefit analysis for how much you help or hurt the Earth, and how to apply it.
—Sacramento Book Review
Living your epitaph—it puts things in a different perspective, doesn’t it? Clearly, creating a life of the highest integrity requires a great deal of introspection and the changes required can seem intimidating. But the author is not asking for overnight change; rather, she seeks to inspire us to think and act from a higher place and make the changes we feel we need to make, at our own pace and one at a time. MOGO is a process, and it’s one we urgently need.
—Sara Irani, Ecosalon.com
...offers straightforward ways that individuals can become involved in the community; be better educated consumers; and stories from individuals who practice MOGO.
—M.L. Card, Got2BeGreen.com
"Weil is inspiring. Her book is never for a single second judgmental or demeaning. ...Weil’s humane intuition clearly guided her as she wrote - the moment you find yourself overwhelmed, Weil’s words are there to calm you. Most Good, Least Harm is like sitting with a really wise, close friend."
—Janelle Sorensen, HealthyChild.org
If you would like to help create a more peaceful, healthy, and humane world, and make it a better place for the next generation, the MOGO path will show you how to make your life more positive and healthy through sustainable living and humane education.
—Lois A. Rogalski, New Age Retailer (Miss Lois’ Curiosity Shoppe, Benton, Ky.)
