Columbia Gorge musings: Vision rising from place
Pay attention to context, sight tells me. Design our society, lives and communities within the ecological framework, and we will prosper, maybe even find some genuinely founded happiness in this life.
Loss Aversion
On this Frankly, Nate reflects on his experiences in the financial industry with the cognitive bias Loss Aversion and the ways it may manifest to the coming material throughput declines during The Great Simplification.
The living –the boundless relation between humans and nature
In May our new book Det levande (The Living) will be published in Sweden. As can be gleaned from the title, the book’s theme is the relation between us and the rest of the living nature.
Crazy Town: Episode 64. What the Ph*ck Is a Phalse Prophet?
Season 5 of the Crazy Town podcast launches today, with a new theme to help maintain its laugh-so-you-don’t-cry sensibility: Phalse Prophets(TM).
A Run on the Planet
And the banks? Well, they further undermine the planet’s environment, upon which all else depends. Including the economy—which is a subset of the earth, and not the other way around.
The Next Decade Will Be The Most Pivotal in History: This is the Global Phase-Shift
Despite what the headlines scream, what politicians are doing, what powerful lobbies are scheming, despite all of that, amidst of all of that, our job is to empower and accelerate the most positive material and cultural shifts unfolding before our eyes and within our communities.
A Tale of Two Garden Books
There are all types of gardens. I think Silver does a better job of teaching this important lesson even as he restricts his list of plant allies to a few that work for him. That is the point.
Deadly train collision in Greece reveals the dysfunctionality of State and capitalism – time for self-management
A major social change is urgently needed, one based on total political equality and direct participation, that requires moving beyond statecraft and capitalism
Empty Tables: How It Feels to Be Hungry
Whether the term used is food insecurity or food inequity, the result is simple enough: hunger.
Achieving 30×30: Percentages Matter, We’re All in This Together, and What You Do to Help Counts Big-time
The “Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework” (GBF), approved by the 15th Conference of Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity clearly states the goal of protecting, conserving, and restoring 30% of Earth’s lands and waters by 2030.
We are all modern now
We can salvage the good things that modernity has brought that can be taken with us. We can mourn the good things that we will lose.
Despoiling the final frontier: Satellite mega-constellations threaten ozone layer
Satellite mega-constellations are coming to a sky near you and the results could over time be catastrophic for the ozone layer unless something is done.
