Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
The challenge is always what’s the particular role of an individual person or of an individual organization. The discernment process is something that everyone is working on, figuring out my role in this systems change.
…[T]he transfer of wealth that has been created, that has been taken from the saver and from the taxpayer to “mend the financial system” or to keep it from falling off the cliff is extraordinary.
As I learned in graduate-school, the legitimate fear of change and the unknown expressed in each case is, more significantly, working at the same time to protect some form of unacknowledged and unseen privilege.
You, too, could be caught in a situation where people are ready for an alternative, yet your group has none to offer. Crisis equals opportunity, for those who are ready to use it.
Italy continues to operate in "political Alzheimer." The patient continues to repeat the same things over and over, without reacting to external stimuli. We vaguely remember that, in the past, there was a good time in which the economy was growing and there follows that there is nothing else and nothing more than pursuing growth to fix all the problems.
Riet Schumack not only has a heart for gardening and kids, but also for the city she loves and calls home: Detroit.
Humans have already used up 2015’s supply of Earth’s resources | The Point of No Return: Climate Change Nightmares Are Already Here | The Great Northern Meltdown: First It was the Polar Bears, Now It’s the Hemisphere…
The first step in making change is imagining change, and the first step in imagining change is recognizing that “more of the same” isn’t going to cut it.
Our thing is that right here—your self—is the most accessible whole system that you have. That’s the best way to effect change.
It isn’t that we expect the parchment won’t get inked, but rather that the document won’t actually accomplish its task even if the conference is a complete success.
The environmental movement is a microcosm of other realms of society in one troubling way: women are missing.
Two recent films couldn’t be more at odds in their vision of the future. "Mad Max: Fury Road" is a relentless chase scene set in a world burned to desert by climate change and bereft of civilization which has long since vanished in a haze of war and resource shortages. Disney’s "Tomorrowland" shows a technotopian future guided by some innate wisdom that insures not only that humans will survive, but that they will thrive while building ever greater monuments to civilized life-
