As a continuation to my last post about the precautionary tale of simply accepting mainstream authority as holders of the scientific gospels, I will explain further how money backed science and medicine came to dominate our lives today. Many years ago, when I worked as a biochemical technician with a Read more…
In much earlier posts (Health – Sickcare 1 & 2) I have talked about the Microbiome and its importance to our personal health. There is much news about more natural health care, but then there is also the response from the science and medical community that automatically debunks such options. Read more…
When I was still teaching about sustainability, I sometimes used the simulation program Sim City. The first time I used this program was back in the early 1990s. (SimCity is a city-building and urban planning simulation game.) What becomes clear from doing this kind of simulation is that there are Read more…
I have made a big deal about us all needing to be involved as active participants in manifesting a new and better future. I get a lot of comments from friends and students about what kind of political and economic system this involves. Whatever comes out of this transition it Read more…
I am amazed that I have to actually say this but the transition requires us to make a decision away from the consumer paradigm. WE don’t have to leave all the creature comforts and luxuries behind – let me dispel that ridiculous notion straight away – but we have to Read more…
As an academic, in a university setting, I found myself leading a sustainability degree program and the charge for many sustainability projects and situations that I felt needed change on campus and within the local communities. I would not say I am a person who aspires to be a leader. Read more…
I have spoken of the desperate need to rethink and change our global economic systems (see previous post The world Economy – are we really doing better? Measurement is everything!). Bhutan has metrics in place since 1998 to measure Gross National Happiness (GNH) using over 9 major metrics instead of Read more…
I get a lot of comments from readers. One recent one was about going more in depth on some of the topics. That has always been my goal and my blog posts tend to build on previous ones. Indeed, regular readers will note that I often refer back to previous Read more…
One of the greatest gifts we have is free will. Yet, so many, because of conditioned fear and anxiety, relinquish their free will to some kind of authoritarian system that does not have their best interest as a priority. When you listen to someone else’s opinion, you are listening to Read more…
I was able to do a lot of reading over the holiday period. As we begin a new year, a little backtrack to emphasize much of what we all seem to keep forgetting. All of the ideas I express in this post I will cover in more depth in the Read more…
In the previous post I outlined how one of the most pressing problems of the day in 1899 had been the widespread accumulation of horse poop, but how that had been resolved by the adoption of a new technology – the automobile. This also highlighted another problem of technology in Read more…
Just a couple of weeks ago I attended a City Council Meeting to support a local measure to have the Power Company in my area commit to 100% Renewable Energy by 2030. I sat patiently to the agenda of the many items that the city council have to deal with Read more…
News stories that you hear from the mainstream that are not negative tend only to revolve around new positive technological innovations. That is the creativity that excites us. We get excited by things that work well and improve conditions. Yet, the many positive stories that show social systems where people Read more…
I have talked many times about our need to become more collaborative, but what models exist in the political arena that use collaboration and not disruptive competition. The concept of Synergistic Democracy was first proposed by Barbara Marx Hubbard (World Future Society). The term Synocracy seems to have been independently Read more…
It is a misconceptionthat the ultimate power belongs to the government because the greatest powerhas always and will always belong to the people. The 1% knows this, which is why they divideus, so we can hate and fear each other, thereby disempowering the greatestpower there is, which is the power Read more…
Imagine, if we were contacted by an alien race, what is the story we want to tell about humanity? Would we want to emphasize the brutality or the humanity of our species? Think about the message we sent out into the cosmos on two golden phonograph records aboard the Voyager Read more…
The mainstream news is not about what is working well, but only about what is NOT working. If the mainstream is all that you hear then you can be forgiven for thinking that the world is heading to hell in a hand-basket. Don’t get me wrong, we have passed, or Read more…
A key aspect of a flourishing culture is one that allows people to be the creative beings they know themselves to be, in whatever form that takes for any one individual. I really believe that we are not meant to be just existing with no purpose. Societies all around the Read more…
If we see everybody as ‘same to me’ or ‘other than me’ we find that this creates either compassion or fear respectively. What separates communities that work and have resilience is that they bond together for the benefit of the whole. Community expert Mark Nepo uses the analogy of Aspen Read more…
One of the greatest challenges we face (as I have talked about earlier in this blog) is that of education for a flourishing future. Scholar Sir Ken Robinson makes a big point about how our educational systems are not designed for fostering creativity or critical thinking (I recommend any of Read more…
I have informally counseled many people over the years. By far the most popular comment that always comes up is that everyone feels a need to do something ‘useful’ in life and the big question, “Why am I here and what is my purpose?” This is usually spurred on by Read more…
Fear was the midwife at the conceptual birth of separation. The attendants were desire, greed, suffering, and anger. Michael Roads Imagine being much more free than you are now. Once you decide to express yourself as you truly would like to be then you no longer need the system that Read more…
“We are the most obese, medicated, addicted, and in-debt Americans EVER. Why? We have access to more information, more books, and good science – why are we struggling like never before? Because we don’t talk about the things that get in the way of doing what we know is best Read more…
We have two choices. We can spend our resources on war, security, walls, fences, borders or we can spend our resources meeting the needs of ALL people by creating an economy of sustainable abundance, which would make obsolete all of those needs for security. Which do you choose? Chris Agnos, Read more…
In the face of climate breakdown and ecological overshoot, alluring promises of “green growth” are no more than magical thinking. We need to restructure the fundamentals of our global cultural/economic system to cultivate an “ecological civilization”: one that prioritizes the health of living systems over short-term wealth production. Jeremy Lent, Read more…
I previously outlined how different types of business paradigms are setting out to change how we do business (See (previous post Businesses making a difference). Much of this post is from my Sustainable Living Text but I will introduce it here in this blog. Since business is so much a Read more…
Human power comes from every human being on the planet. The reason that the ultra elite-hierarchy or Cabal have such power is that we collectively give them our power. We can happily exist without this super hierarchy – we don’t need them. They make us believe that we do, but Read more…
Heretic – original use of the term, “Someone who is in possession of the facts and is able to choose.” Anyone in the world following politics in the USA will have noticed the final acts of ‘civic disengagement’ occuring. Since the 1950s, ongoing dialogue within towns and neighborhoods was slowly Read more…
Hi everyone, and apparently that is now a lot of you that have recently discovered my blog. I’ve had lots of comments from the comments section and while it is wonderful and positive feedback, I have to be honest because it is now getting overwhelming. So I have added a Read more…
We are at a crucial juncture in human existence. Besides the need to grow spiritually (and for those that haven’t read my earlier posts on this, I emphasize that this does not automatically include religion, which itself is a control system) we need to regain control of our own society. Read more…