“The first day or so we all pointed to our countries. The third or fourth day we were pointing to our continents. By the fifth day, we were aware of only one Earth.” Sultan bin Salman bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, STS-51-G Space Shuttle astronaut. I caught a headline the other Read more…
A bit of a later post this weekend – we have a firestorm blazing in the forests just 8 miles northwest of us, raining ash and pouring smoke in red-orange hues over our homes. More like a scene from Lord of the Rings and Mordor than a quiet Colorado town. Read more…
“Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.” William Plomer. I am always surprised when I would introduce an innovative idea to a group I was working with and receive the reply, “it won’t work” because we don’t do things that way. Whether this is in science or in Read more…
Some men see things as they are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were, and ask why not. Oscar Wilde. How we look at the world is central to how we allow ourselves to think beyond the limiting mental boxes we live within. For many decades we have been expanding Read more…
I am going to get a tad esoteric in this blog post but I do so to point out just how our thinking has become so dogmatic and inflexible. I am going to talk about incredible new energy research technology in the next post, but first some background on why Read more…
“Our world is divided is not divided by race, color, gender, or religion. Our world, is divided into wise people and fools. And fools divide themselves by race, color, gender or religion.” Nelson Mandela I saw a neat quote on the Sustainablehuman.com website. “The goal of life is not to Read more…
“The greatest fear in the world is the opinion of others, and the moment you are unafraid of the crowd, you are no longer a sheep, you become a lion. A great roar arises in your heart, the roar of freedom.” Osho Have you ever wondered why peer pressure is Read more…
What I am observing at this time, as are so many of us, is a lot of protesting and activism on behalf of something or other. There are a lot of reasons that everything all over the world seems so chaotic at this time, but change is in the air Read more…
“The truth is like a lion. You don’t need to defend it. Let it loose. It will defend itself.” St Augustine. A quick diversion from empathy to talk more about scientism, but pertinent to it as I will show in the next post. I have talked about scientism a bit Read more…
In previous posts I have written about empathy and leadership (e.g. Spiritual Crisis is the World’s Greatest Problem Part 2 – Cultural Sensitivity and Empathy) but I would like to revisit it again through a frame of empathy. Civic mobilization requires that we understand and address the underlying problems that Read more…
The contentious atmosphere that pervades our societies with all the anger and frustration should be of concern for everyone. So, today’s post, with the title given, is the transcript of an oral presentation I gave at an international conference in Montreal in 2009. Modern consumerism prevents people who benefit from Read more…
In two previous posts (Biomimicry 1 and 2 – Learning from Nature – BioEngineering a New World) I talked a little about Janine Benyus and her Biomimicry concepts. The key point I want to reiterate here is that the new wave of technology will by definition have to be focused Read more…
There is a simple yet profound saying that applies to trying to solve a problem while continuing the cause, “You can’t dry off when you are still under the running shower.” That pretty much sums up trying to become sustainable while continuing the consumer mindset. This mindset is an addiction Read more…
“Mindfulness is observing your life right now. Accepting your current situation without judgment or struggle. Allowing feelings to exist without letting them driving your actions. Noticing thoughts that occur without needing to buy into them. Taking action based on what you feel in your heart rather than old habits or Read more…
“Mindfulness isn’t difficult. We just need to remember to do it” Sharon Saltzberg In the last post I talked about choice as the way to create personal, social, and ecological freedom. I want you to think for a minute now about the one singular factor that controls much of the Read more…
“Complacency is not your friend. When you become complacent you turn yourself off. You begin to think that calmness is a way of life. You forget that the nature of life is chaotic change and then a season of calm, but then the storms kick in again. It’s not personal Read more…
“Humanity treats humanity in the same way that humanity treats nature” Michael Roads. What makes people conform to the Status Quo? – Peer Pressure and the fear of being rejected, i.e. being unlovable. This is the pressure that so many accept in order to be liked – being a people Read more…
I used this in an earlier post but it is worth repeating: “I used to think the top environmental problems were biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse, and climate change. I thought that with 30 years of good science we could address those problems. I was wrong. The top environmental problems are Read more…
Conspiracies are rampant in all the information we seem to be getting at this time. The result is an even greater polarization than ever, driven by the internet and its inherent anonymity of opinions from so many users. It’s not that there may or may not be any conspiracies but Read more…
One of the questions I always got from new students in my Sustainability Studies program was, “Why can’t everyone see the obvious need to work towards sustainability?” That’s a question I have spent many years and much of this blog talking about. I was, by training and many years of Read more…
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” Socrates. As I read about the goings on around the world, what I see too much of is fear and anger being expressed. There is an awakening going on Read more…
I thought I had said enough about vaccines and Covid-19, but the medical tyranny we are facing is real and about to be imposed on us in a big way. A British site I recommend is www.vernoncoleman.com. He does YouTube videos and then has the transcripts on his website. I Read more…
‘It is so empowering to say this isn’t serving me and then to walk peacefully away.’ Anon If there ever was a time for major change to happen, now is that time. I’m not just talking about tweaking our current dystopic system where the 1% currently lord it over us, Read more…
I read the social media with interest at this time. Especially the vitriol between vaxxers and anti-vaxxers. The response to the Plandemic video has been ideologically polarizing. I have been reading several commentaries, against the Plandemic video, that use Ad hominem arguments about the central figure, Dr. Mikovits – very Read more…
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored” Aldous Huxley. I originally was doing a Covid-19 update then the problems with vaccines but now I have so much to say about Covid-19, I have to separate the two. I was looking at official sources to figure out more Read more…
Times of crisis are periods when the what we think was impossible can happen. The elites find more ways to shaft us further in the guise of saving us from something, or we rise up and push our own agenda to help improve the lives of people. In the wake Read more…
So much of world is under lockdown because of the Covid-19 virus, and there is a lot of talk about a mandatory vaccine that I decided to do a dive down the vaccine rabbit hole this week. Let me say at the start that being a trained biochemistry researcher I Read more…
I have spent the past week reading a lot about Coronavirus and the official responses such as the lockdown and in some places, extreme legal lockdown. What is becoming obvious is the incredible misinformation that is happening, and the difficulty of a lay person to figure out what the true Read more…
I find that wherever I look in the media at this time, there are so many people moaning and complaining about the state of the world. Yet, a large number resist doing anything to create change that would begin the transformation from an oligarchy to a world that works better Read more…
The comments section of this blog is interesting to me in hearing about people’s thoughts of my posts. I have had some who want to discuss things more, but the comments section is just short blurbs and isn’t the real place for that extended understanding many seek. Often friends prompt Read more…