Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Meet Jack Welch, celebrated wrecker of real jobs and leading light of Wall Street wankers. Please share this episode with your friends and start a conversation.
A story is not just an allegory, or a metaphorical point. It’s a love affair, and one of the most wonderful ways of breaking the trance states being put on us at this point in time, is to figure out what you love.
But what if… we instead saw resilience as something we share in common? Resilient communities are at the heart of Transition.
Empowering women to drive the conversation about what they need to be able to ride a bike – and increasing the number of women designing and planning biking infrastructure – is crucial to ensure women aren’t left behind.
Radioactivity-resistant soldiers? Life tries to imitate art.
And honestly, all of this leaves me wondering today what that “prophesy” might look like for the high school graduates of 2023 or those of my grandchildren’s generation in an even more distant future. I certainly hope for the best, but also fear the worst.
Meet Ray Kurzweil, who combines Moore’s Law with nanobots in a faux recipe to cheat death.
This year Post Carbon Institute turns 20, so it’s a good time to take stock. What have we done, what’s left to do?
To put the whole weight of the future on the shoulders of those of us who happen to be around just now can be paralysing, the weight unbearable.
So you see the impact of what can happen with “doing with what you make.” I’m living it right now by sharing my 4-point recipe in this essay. Consider this my potluck contribution.
Meet Steven Pinker, whose denial of limits increases the likelihood of his worst fear: the end of the Enlightenment.
What kind of ancestor do I want to be? What do I love too much to lose? What must I pick up and carry into the future? Across the days after our meeting, I realized Dr. Kimmerer’s questions weren’t just thought experiments, but heart experiments.
