We have a lot of great success stories of people choosing sustainable practices. One notable feature is that they are nearly all localized!! You won’t hear about them in the mainstream media, except in the most cursory passing. Only in independent films, documentaries, and searching through the many NGO reports Read more
“No one before us has ever witnessed what we almost take for granted today. If only we would change our value system to place emphasis on cooperation, sharing, caring, and compassion rather than competition and the winner-takes-all mentality” Blogger Teresa Writer. I was driving to the store the other Read more
“If our small minds, for some convenience, divide this universe into parts – physics, biology, geology, astronomy, psychology, and so on – remember that nature does not know it!” Richard Feynman. And yes, you can add in all the social sciences and arts as well. We have to breakout of Read more
“The greatest form of activism is to be a living example of the type of people you’d like to see walking this Earth” Ebonee Davis. Recently a friend asked me a question about why I thought that we could not just manage our technology to resolve the myriad environmental/ecological issues Read more
I ended the last post talking about ‘Collective Refusal’ as a way to move us into the better world we all want. Nearly everyone I know and hear from, regardless of any political leanings, agrees that the world as it currently runs is a shit show. For a collective Read more
I don’t know about you but I feel that the world in just the last few months has gotten really strange. Blogger Blake Shields shares my views about what is going on; “AI is advancing faster than most of us can comprehend. Our phones know an uncomfortable amount about us. Read more
“Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy. I choose joy over despair. Not because I have my head in the sand, but because joy is what the earth gives me daily and I must return the gift” Read more
I admit that I grew up in an unusual age where boomers like me inherited a financial situation that allowed most of us to thrive economically through a stable work environment, and to expect a period of security during retirement. Totally unusual because for most of history, for whatever reasons, Read more
”We possess a biological craving to connect with the living world. When you completely sever a [human] population from nature, you introduce a deep, baseline anxiety that no amount of material consumption can ever cure” E.O. Wilson. When I talk about the need for a more spiritual approach of Read more
Our civilization’s greatest threat will never be external. Rather it is the way we are treating the planet, each other and ourselves. In the last post I talked about this global issue of disclosure about Extraterrestrial life. Global ‘disclosure’ seems to be occurring where governments around the world as well Read more
I note that the news is getting quite full of stories about the fact that we are not alone in the universe – extraterrestrial aliens seem to be buzzing through our sky’s. After centuries of theologians telling us how alone we are and that we are God’s unique species, it Read more
“I believe the greatest crisis of our time is not economic, military, or even environmental. It is a crisis of consciousness…In the end, the direction of society is nothing more than the collective direction of individual consciousness. If we wish to change civilization, we must first change ourselves. Every lasting Read more
“A system that makes you pay to exist, compete to eat, and obey to survive is not civilization; it’s a prison with shopping privileges” Soto Archon. We talk about the future, but seem oblivious about it. WE talk about the need for change but then hedge our beliefs that technology Read more
If you are connected by any electronic device, you are being targeted every minute of every day with negative memes designed to disempower and scare you! Whether you listen is up to you – that is your first step to self-empowerment. To those of you using vinyl records, I must Read more
“Our economic system and our planetary system are now at war. Or, more accurately, our economic system is at war with most forms of life on earth, including human life. What the [earth] needs to avoid collapse is a contraction in humanity’s use of resources; what our economic model demands Read more
“A civilization is only as free as the individuals who comprise it. Reclaim your mind” Jordan Peterson. “The indigenous ways of knowing and being that European colonists saw as primitive and uncivilized are now being actively sought out to save our environment and humankind from the brink of extinction” Sherri Read more
An older environmental education colleague called me up the other day. After initial greetings and pleasantries, he lapsed into a short tirade about the state of the world, and ended with the statement, “when’s this f**king sustainable world you talk about supposed to happen? All of this shit shouldn’t happen Read more
In talking with people here in the U.S. I am often flummoxed by their inability to truly understand what I am trying to promote as a new kind of lifestyle that is better that the dystopia that currently exists. Having been born and raised in the UK, I see Quality Read more
In 1949, French female philosopher, Simone de Beauvoir, published a multi-perspective two-volume book, Le Deuxième Sexe (The Second Sex). A single sentence at the beginning earned it a worldwide place on the banned books list: “On ne naît pas femme: on le deviant (One is not born, but rather becomes, Read more
If you are focused on anger and feelings of disgust at hierarchical behavior, and endlessly watch the mainstream media talk about it all – whichever polarized perspectives you watch – then ‘they’ have got you doing just what ‘they’ want you to do. If ‘they’ have you all riled up Read more
“The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology, but because of an expanded concept of what it means to be human” John Naisbitt. “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its Read more
“Most people think leadership is about being seen. Being the one in front. Being the one people follow. But real leadership is quieter than that. It’s in how people grow around you. How they step into more of themselves because of how you showed up. And the real test? What Read more
“The Planet doesn’t care about your political beliefs. The laws of nature don’t bend to human stubbornness. Either we adapt to a world without endless extraction, pollution, and destruction, or nature will remind us we are not in control” Forest Web. Jordan Osmond (https://folklorepictures.com/) recently did an inspiring short 15-minute Read more
Films for Action Director, Tim Hjersted, has some sage advice that mirrors what I have talked a lot about in this blog concerning sustainable living. The change we first need is internal; a change in beliefs and values about who we truly are and how we relate to the world Read more
Some 37 years ago I was still a biochemical lab researcher. I was always an environmentalist even if I didn’t actually call myself that as such at the time. I had observed the rise of the environmental movement in both Britain, Europe and then the USA. What had struck me Read more
I have lots of hope for the future of humanity. I believe in my soul that people when are internally incentivized, will do the right things to make this a better world. Just because the hierarchies of the past 6000 years have repeatedly fucked humanity over has been hard, but Read more
“The Italian Marxist, Antonio Gramsci, writing from a fascist prison cell in the 1930s, coined a term – cultural hegemony – the process by which a ruling class maintains power not through violence, but through the control of ideas, values, and institutions. The ruling class doesn’t need to send soldiers Read more
I was talking with someone the other day and they were lamenting how everything is chaotic and failing – the economy, society in general. I had to smile. Everything is working exactly the way it was designed to work, and except for temporary squabbles within the hierarchies (think Revolutions and Read more
“I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man[sic]” Thomas Jefferson. I’ll wrap up my ranting reality checks, that I hope you all recognize and now see in the existing world, and then get onto more positive aspects of Read more
When I was much younger, I had the really naïve notion that if people just had the correct information, they would make rational decisions for their, and others, well-being. I suppose that despite all the nastiness that humans inflict on each other, I believed that people were inherently good and Read more