Why Biodiversity?
Ultimately, the Earth will survive after the sixth mass extinction event, but it will do so without us unless we care enough to change.
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Co-Creating a Seafood System Vision in the Galápagos Islands
A process of intention, vision, and prototypes — centered in the seafood system of the Galápagos — with frameworks of Theory U and the 4 Returns.
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.
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.
The Kurdish Movement: From Mesopotamia to Mesoamerica
If you ask me what is the most advanced postmodern experience in the world today, that is, the one that traces a hopeful path toward a new civilization, I would undoubtedly answer: the Kurdish movement.
Long Walk to Freedom
I want to reject the indifference I ever felt amidst the struggles of Ukrainians, Syrians and every nation torn asunder by wars. I want to feel something.
Give Peace a Chance
You work for peace because “it’s a moral responsibility to oppose the war machine. And as long as there’s a chance and you’re working at what has the best chance of succeeding, you have to do it.”
It’s as simple — and as bedeviling — as that. In other words, we have to give peace a chance.
Book Review: Tracing the Relational Roots of Happiness
As the authors emphasize, people like Henry Keane who can lean on supportive connections in times of stress are much better able to cope with the numerous trials that invariably confront us all during the course of our lives. In contrast, isolation can be damaging to long-term health.
The Inverse Converses
Communication is homo sapiens’ greatest strength, yet paradoxically also its greatest weakness.
Martin Luther King’s multiple lanes to multiracial democracy
May we continue to embrace King’s powerful advice that we pursue multiple, connected lanes in order to achieve racial justice and multiracial democracy.
The Response: Survival of the Richest with Douglas Rushkoff
Island bunkers, missions to mars, the Metaverse, and the impulse to escape in the face of looming climate and social collapse. These are the fantasies of the rich and powerful, but there is an alternative path for humanity, one anchored in mutual aid, disaster collectivism, and human interdependence.
Exarcheia, the subway station, and public space
What is crucial to understand is that this is all a question of politics: of who gets to shape our city – a handful of bureaucrats and capitalist investors, or the vast majority of a district’s inhabitants. It is this political question that frames the content and the outlook of urban space.
