The Haves & The Have-Nots
In this Frankly, Nate follows up the recent Reality Roundtable on poverty with a wider perspective on the different types of “wealth” in our society that go beyond the material.
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Doing it for the Kids: Transition Chipping Norton
I asked Cara what the group’s shift to a focus on young people had brought to the group. She said: “It helped us to view every aspect of the town from a young person’s perspective. Taking an approach focused on integrating their needs opened up many new doors and generated more interest in what we do.”
Change Is Coming Soon
There’s so much at stake, so much to lose, but if Howard Zinn were with us today, I suspect he would look at the rise of bold and visionary organizing, led by generations of young leaders, and tell us that change, on a planet in deep distress, is coming soon.
Hospicing Modernity: Not a new idea
We first need to listen to the world, listen to the voices we’ve suppressed, listen to reality. As Machado says, “Do the dishes”, meaning tend to and take care of the physical bodies enmeshed and entangled with modernity.
Free Will: Good Riddance
It’s okay to let go of the free will illusion. Nothing big changes. The universe will not stop. Just breathe.
Bullying your workers and ‘defending the brand’
It takes a certain type of corporate culture to keep on doing things in the face of mounting evidence that they are the wrong things to do. A corporate culture, in other words, with “no reasonable doubt”, in the memorable phrase of the management academic Charles Handy.
“Runner Beans Not Runways” Forest, art and community in Heathrow’s flight path
Georgia Woods, one of the founders of Grow Heathrow told me that the project “brought the ‘yes’ of Transition together with the need for resistance, linking the yes and the no”.
Waymaking for Cultural Change
As we desire to heal the world the world truly desires to be healed, but, as Moffat found, the immensity and complexity of the mountain makes climbing it both difficult and perilous. Nevertheless the lover of the mountain accepts the challenge and, with skill, experience, tools, perseverance, and help from her friends, she reaches the summit.
Climate Politics: The View from Washington January 9, 2024
Congress is back from its holiday recess. Although it’s a new year, Capitol Hill politicians are facing many of the same old problems—beginning with efforts to avoid a partial or complete federal government shutdown.
An Ancient Chinese Text That’s Surprisingly Relevant Today
Beyond its interest for historians, Tao Te Ching has special significance for anyone trying to find a sane path in today’s world.
The Behavioral Stack
In this Frankly, Nate offers a personal reflection on his learnings about ‘awareness’ vs ‘focus’ and how this knowledge could be used as a guide toward more thoughtful behaviors.
Facing difficult truths
Climate psychology seeks to place citizens of the West under critical scrutiny. It tries to throw light upon our complicity and inaction in the face of the climate crisis and promote greater ethical and political engagement with the issue. It sees the modern Western self as the product of three great separations or alienations – from external nature, from our own physical nature as mortal beings, and from other selves.
