In the last post I talked about how ‘giving a f*ck’ about things that really matter is crucial to our well-being as we move forward in these chaotic times. It’s not only political and economic but as the recent hurricanes demonstrate, even mother nature is seemingly sending us a message. Read more…
Bertolt Brecht’s quote “Grub first, then morals” (Grub – slang for food) suggests that people should prioritize their basic demands before they can concentrate on even more abstract principles, like morals. It is a suggestion that individuals must not neglect their standard needs in order to concentrate on greater ideals. Read more…
“Here’s to the bridge-builders, the hand-holders, the light-bringers, those extraordinary souls wrapped in ordinary lives who quietly weave threads of humanity into an inhumane world. They are the unsung heroes in a world at war with itself. They are the whisperers of hope that peace is possible. Look for them Read more…
If there is one thing that I think has kept people tethered and trapped by conditioning, I would say it is the need to conform to social norms that while on the surface sound reasonable, really serve to keep us in a state of constriction and compliance. Most people dream Read more…
“Authenticity is acting in accordance with one’s true self, and being authentic means behaving in congruence with one’s values, beliefs, motives, and personality dispositions” Theo Tsaousides. I have been informed that my link to the Berkley Well-Being site didn’t work, so here it is again (link). To again reinforce my Read more…
“You are but a drop in the ocean… but what is an ocean but a multitude of drops” Cloud Atlas. As of writing this post to my blog the human population of Earth was approaching 8.2 billion people. That means 8.2 billion unique and beautiful sovereign individuals ready to express Read more…
“I don’t want to protect the environment; I want to create a world where the environment doesn’t need protecting. The Earth is not a platform for human life. It’s a living being. We’re not on it, but part of it. Its health is our health” Thomas Moore. In the Read more…
“Fairy tales in childhood are stepping stones throughout life, leading the way through trouble and trial. The value of fairy tales lies not in a brief literary escape from reality, but in the gift of hope that goodness truly is more powerful than evil and that even the darkest reality Read more…
“Our true destiny…is a world built from the bottom up by competent citizens living in solid communities, engaged in and by their places” David Orr. The quote above explains my views succinctly. It needs more explanation, but my whole blog is about explaining this simple quote. Then I got looking Read more…
I like to believe that people in general are inherent honest, but then I run into yet another ‘used car salesperson’ kind of person who spins a web of incredible lies just to get a deal in their favor. They come under many guises as con-artists extraordinaire, who have become Read more…
As I watch the comical (if it were not so deadly serious) political scene unfolding here in the USA, and then various elections being held across the planet, I am always struck, not by the lies that nearly all political candidates say in order to garner support (and hence votes Read more…
In this week’s post wrapping up why we must have a Sustainability Revolution if we and the planet are to thrive, I offer a simplified explanation of the big separation and how to heal it. Most readers will acknowledge that I am a great believer in personal sovereignty and self-actualization, Read more…
The so-called civilized world (probably since the institution of empire cities were created some 5-6 millennia ago) have been dominated by an economic paradigm that serves the wealthy at the expense of the common person. The brilliant economist and thinker John Kenneth Galbraith describes this nicely with his four quotes Read more…
“The way we see the world shapes the way we treat it. If a mountain is a deity, not a pile of ore; if a river is one of the veins of the land, not potential irrigation water; if a forest is a sacred grove, not timber; if other species Read more…
Revolutions are never the act of any single person. They are the consequence of groups of people with a like mind who usually have discussed in-depth the problems and options for change. Most of the time in the past it was often a violent sequence of events to overthrow a Read more…
“If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them more than the miracles of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it” US President Lyndon Johnson, 1964, Read more…
In this modern world of social media, everyone is bombarded with memes, the most powerful of which (both good and bad) quickly go viral because of the triggering narrative that sparks the mind (see earlier posts 1 & 2 for more explanation). Memes are important aspects of how we communicate. Read more…
As we move into a new sustainable world, it is important to note that it will be a new kind of society, one that will be defined by greater interaction and connected community, even as everyone will be sovereign and authentically self-actualized. If everyone is going to be living their Read more…
I do not believe that we can be a Global Sustainable Society without living in a way that resolves conflict in a peaceful way. That literally means that violence in all its forms, intrapersonally, interpersonally, interculuturally, against women, and against the natural world has to become obsolete. Conflict is inherent Read more…
The one thing that most people are noticing during these challenging times is how change is coming. Yet, most people are fearful of large changes, since the unknown is a fearful place for so many and the illusion of the status quo seems more comforting. It’s the reason so many Read more…
Worldviews can sometimes be moderately compatible, as in the case of material consumerism and conservationism, but preservation had to be enforced through legal means through the 1900s, and the more so as a newer worldview came on the tails of a populist movement in the 1960s – Environmentalism. Both Preservationism Read more…
“I am sure that if mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars” E. M. Forster. For literally decades now (and especially since I published my Sustainable Living Text in 2012) I have promoted a positive vision for a new and better future for humanity and Read more…
“Communities and countries and ultimately the world are only as strong as the health of their women” Michelle Obama. When it comes to medical and drug research and treatment, it might not surprise you to know that women yet again get the short end of the stick compared to men. Read more…
“Her … food, clothing, ornaments, amusements, luxuries [all] bear no relation to her power to produce wealth, to her services in the house, or to her motherhood” Charlotte Perkins Gilman. My mother (born in 1926) was a powerful personality trapped in a world not of her choosing. This has made Read more…
“The word ‘female,’ when inserted in front of something, is always with a note of surprise. Female COO, female pilot, female surgeon — as if the gender implies surprise … One day there won’t be female leaders. There will just be leaders” Tracy Chou. In the film ‘My Fair Lady’ Read more…
An aspect of the Sustainability Revolution I have rarely seen, except for the idea that we are becoming more androgenous is the notion of femininity. Today’s discussion will be one that all women will recognize completely and that most men will have been unaware, except when hearing complaints from their Read more…
In the last post I discussed the problems of getting past the ‘Coulomb’ Barrier to achieve fusion in which the heat released can be used to generate electricity (steam turbines). Considering the extreme energetic effort needed to reproduce the internal thermonuclear conditions at the core of a star (extreme heat Read more…
I had an email from a reader that in my last post about energy generation I had omitted Fusion energy, which they believed was a major energy solution technology. So, this week’s post is a more-geeky insight in to the problems of energy generation in the post fossil fuel era. Read more…
Technology is always a double-edged sword that can benefit us but can also have severe consequences when used inappropriately without wisdom. We have reached that time when moving blindly forward with uncritical thinking and unquestioning hubris about long-term consequences of technological innovations are swiftly coming back to haunt us all. Read more…
During the 2020 lockdowns, the phenomenon of ‘scientism’ was notable. I have talked about this a lot in the blog, but it is worth revisiting yet again because as we move into a more technological future, such as with Artificial Intelligence (AI) and energy transitioning, it is critical for us Read more…