Try out the original common sense by Thomas Paine http://earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/milestones/commonsense/text.html
About the original Thomas Paine, good, bad and ugly http://www.americanwriters.org/bookclub/fourthmeeting.asp
Try out this Common Sense in Agriculture, particularly sustainable vs industrial. http://www.ssu.missouri.edu/faculty/jikerd/papers/revolution.html
Common Sense from the list serve, urban and rural
Sustainable Systems long term approach to forestry, paying now and better harvests later
If you want to really stimulate some thought, try this version where I substituted the word medicine for the word agriculture in the above. The New American Medical Revolution
Or this one on American Medical Revolution http://www.unmc.edu/Community/ruralmeded/other/fivegen.htm
Or this one on what we should be doing in medical education to get more doctors to underserved areas. An approach that makes common sense. http://www.unmc.edu/Community/ruralmeded/community_driven_approach.htm
The same substitution of rural medical education instead of research guided the development of this link: WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BUILD RURAL MEDICAL EDUCATION CAPACITY