“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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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: 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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, 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 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 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 Read more
There’s an old joke about a man who confesses to his close friend that he is into flagellation, bestiality, and necrophilia, but lately he isn’t getting any satisfaction from it all; and tells his friend that it all just feels Read more
No recent questions from this blogs readership. When I am out and about taking with people about sustainability, the usual response to my proposal of a complete change in how we use an economy, garners disbelief and denial that such Read more
Back on my soapbox today. We are being thrust – note I didn’t use the words led or guided – into a global economic and technological future that is far beyond anything experienced by humanity within any of its recorded Read more
“This isn’t sustainable, but sustainability was never the goal. The goal was maximizing efficiency and minimizing labor costs, and by that measure, the system works perfectly” Mona Lazar. Through this blog have been sounding the alarm for over 8 years Read more
A deafening silence on the blog about questions and sharing of sustainability actions from you, the readers. I did get a comment from my best friend who responded to my recommendation to watch ‘Finding Harmony – The King’s Vision’: “I Read more
In my last post I asked all of you for questions. With more than 30,000 subscribers to this blog I figured I would get some interesting ideas to pursue. Imagine my surprise when my email (richardjurin@outlook.com) box was quiet?! Then Read more
A very simple blog post today and possibly for the foreseeable future if you choose to engage with me. The title of my blog is ‘Thoughts on what it really means for humanity to live sustainably.’ I have written for Read more
Last week at the WEF (Davos) the Canadian Prime Minister gave an inspiring talk to the global elites (the hierarchy and its puppets). It was inspiring in how it envisioned a new kind of needed government. I believe that this Read more
I’ve spent many weeks and months covering the bigger picture of what lies before us. Perhaps its time for some dives into individual actions that we can all do to be more prepared for when this transition occurs; and occurring Read more
It has been 8 years since I began this blog. It was meant to be a protracted deep dive into ideas I had about Sustainable Living first promulgated in my 2012 textbook. Some 630 thousand published blog words later I sometimes Read more
Now that the primary turn-of-the -year holidays are coming to an end – some observations that have repercussions for how we live and how we accept the insanity that we are living. We are approaching a time when we can Read more