After the deluge
Thirty-three million people have been affected by the floods in Pakistan. The disaster has left more than 1,700 dead, displaced millions and put one-third of the country under water.
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Against the Economic Grain: Addressing the Social Challenges of Sustainable Livelihoods
Living and working, having lifestyles and livelihoods that are truly regenerative and sustainable look nothing like how most of us currently live and work.
Food as Embodiment and Connection
How, then, do we remind ourselves of food’s healing elements, especially in our social connections?
Finding our center in moral courage and compassion
We can find answers in summoning moral courage, finding our center and being present in it, confronting the realities of the world from that center, keeping future generations in focus and living as much as possible in a sense of kindness to others.
Nuclear Fusion Won’t Save the Climate But It Might Blow Up the World
Sadly, fusion won’t save the Arctic from melting, but if we don’t put a stop to it, that breakthrough technology could someday melt us all.
Greta Thunberg’s arrest shows why we must abolish the Energy Charter Treaty
If we are to have a fighting chance for a future free from catastrophic climate change, we need 21st-century solutions. Finally abolishing the Energy Charter Treaty is a good place to start.
”We shouldn’t be afraid of involving businesses”: Doughnut Economics in Brussels
Major European cities such as Amsterdam, Geneva and Brussels, have adopted the doughnut model to guide their green transitions.
The Power Podcast: Episode 9 How to Navigate Power with Wisdom
My goal isn’t to come up with new solutions to humanity’s converging crises—because until we have sufficient wisdom, we won’t recognize real solutions, even if they already exist. First wisdom, then action.
Farmer, the World May Not Be Your Oyster
Oysters can be an important protein for the future and a buffer against some climate change impacts only if society can balance competing interests.
System Change: Through the Perspective of a Bottle of Moisturizer
Perhaps we’ll be forced to return to mud baths and vigorous scratching, but hopefully our innovative minds will keep our skin moist and itch-free.
Our Planet Versus Plastic Bags—A Tale of Two Cities
With oceans, countries, populations, and governments inundated by a plague of plastic worldwide, it may be useful to focus on the single-use plastic bag choices made by two cities, in the same U.S. state, located at a distance of only 64 miles (104 km) from each other.
A review of One Hundred Years of Insanity, by Bob Lloyd
This book – and others it references, particularly Donella Meadows’ Thinking in Systems’ – should be a standard read for university students, but I suspect it will only be read by those who are already-there, or at least already well-on-the-way.
