In this blog I’m trying to cover some complex issues in simpler ways. When I mention the stakeholder issue, it is important to recognize that when it come to this planet we are ALL stakeholders because every environmental ‘insult’ will Read more…
This first part of community development deals more with business aspects involved in the technology of buildings. For a while back in the 1960s especially, everyone went into cheap efficiency buildings – concrete blocks basically. But buildings are where we Read more…
Continuing on from my last post about other frameworks that are leading the way to changes in business philosophies and practice towards sustainability. Just to show how difficult it can be in our current business paradigm, authors Esty & Winston Read more…
In this post I again have taken several comments out of my Environmental Communications Text, Chapter 20. As we think about re-conditioning ourselves away from the consumer and profit only worldviews conditioning, a reminder that being aware that you have Read more…
In this post I have taken several comments out of my Environmental Communications Text, Chapter 20. To pass outside one’s comfort zone means to embrace the unknown and face the fear of failure. Doing the right thing is such a Read more…
“What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.” Mahatma Gandhi In this post I have taken several comments out of my Sustainable Read more…
When I was visiting Eire in 2010, I spent a day with critical economist Richard Douthwaite (Book: Short Circuit; The Growth Illusion; The Ecology of Money) to probe his views. After several hours of pleasant discussion, I asked him what Read more…
I ended the last post with a statement from Daniel Quinn concluding that the path forward is to recondition ourselves to simply begin anew and stop relying on old failed paradigms to somehow work out solutions for us. When Read more…
In my Sustainable Living textbook, I have a chapter on economics. Recently, I was looking at it and pondering on how many years I have been trying to get people to see that money and more ‘stuff’ does not make Read more…
“Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come…” Victor Hugo We have just come through the Christmas Holiday, where in countries where Christianity is a primary religion, we at least, for one day a year espouse, “peace Read more…
In the previous post I talked about false narratives that continue to persuade us of the false reality of scarcity, which in turn causes us to make poor decisions about how we live. Yet, what is the alternative? Listening to Read more…
As an Addendum to the last post, in the USA, in 1949, the Federal Communications Commission created he Fairness Doctrine – “All controversial issues of public importance must be covered in a way that is honest, equitable, and balanced way.” Read more…
Most of the problems in the world can be tied one way or another to money, and by default to the need to keep acquiring it – it is what drives our failing world economy. We hear of the levels Read more…
If standard of living is your major objective, quality of life almost never improves, but if quality of life is your number one objective, your standard of living almost always improves. Zig Ziglar If there is one thing that characterizes Read more…
When thinking over what large urban centers might look like in a sustainable world, the conclusion is that they cannot be concrete, glass and asphalt sprawls. The reason I say this is because the world sustainability implies self-sufficiency and current Read more…
An overview of how cities developed and overwhelmed their environments seems pertinent now as we ponder what our future living environments may become. We can do nothing of course and just await whatever happens in a most non-adaptive and fatalistic Read more…
As I ponder the logistics of what it will mean to live sustainably, I have to wonder if a centralized or more decentralized system is the way to make it happen. Centralized economies (what we erroneously called Communism) failed miserably Read more…
One of the main features I talk about with living sustainably is that everyone will need to live more localized. This then raises the question whether the governing systems will also need to be more localized as well. There has Read more…
Rethinking Economics 3 – A Rant about Corruption and Preoccupation with Money I talked about Les Brown of the World Watch Institute in a previous Blog post VISION – How we focus on what we really Want 3 – population, Read more…
“The stories we tell literally make the world. If you want to change the world, you need to change your story. The truth applies to individuals and institutions.” Michael Margolis. I had two recent posts on this blog (Spiritual Read more…
I do not see how we can become a sustainable society with the current economic system that is designed to not be sustainable. How can we have a sustainable world in an endless growth system based on money? As I Read more…
“The things you are passionate about are not random, they are your calling.” Fabienne Fredrickson Think of Greta Thurnberg’s actions that have made her a worldwide media focus. She isn’t special – she’s just a 16-year-old school girl. There is Read more…
“Opinion is the lowest from of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding. The Highest form of knowledge … is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another’s world. It requires profound purpose larger Read more…
A short diversion from Flow to discuss something that we need to fully digest before I come back to how to get to a sustainable world. Do you handle your life or does your life handle you? Do you use Read more…
Flow Theory Part 2 – Understanding Why Flow is Important “Of all the virtues we can learn no trait is more useful, more essential for survival, and more likely to improve the quality of life than the ability to transform Read more…
“Control of consciousness determines the quality of life” ― Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. The blog today is a bit more esoteric but bear with me on it. Our focus and mindset is crucial to how anything is perceived and how we feel Read more…
As I said in the last post, Audience Analysis is good communications technique for well thought out and well-crafted ‘honest’ messaging. Now using data sets from social media platforms with negatively fear based invented news and misinformation has turned it Read more…
Collecting data about people has long been a primary goal of the advertising industry, e.g. The Madison Avenue crowd. The more you know about potential customers, the more closely you can match your advertising to their interests and preferences. This Read more…
“Don’t say anything online that you wouldn’t want plastered on a billboard with your face on it” Erin Bury I just spent three weeks in the Silicon Valley area of California. I toured the Facebook campus and ran through the Read more…
There are some modern philosophers that have commented, “The young do not question the wrongs of adults, they just suffer the poor decisions.” We are at a critical point in human history where our descendants will look back on us Read more…