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 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 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 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 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 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 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, 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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. 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 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 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 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 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 Read more…
I am but a single drop in a limitless ocean, but what is an ocean but a multitude of drops? David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas One of the consequences of this global lockdown is the growing awareness of how connected we all Read more…
As I was writing about what a future society might look like, the Coronavirus has been literally wreaking havoc on the global economy. Just yesterday, the U.S. government set up $2 trillion (yes with a T and bigger than many Read more…
“The more we’re thrown into conflict with each other through engineered distrust, the less able we are to unite against those responsible.” DaShanne Stokes It has been less than a week since my last post and yet the whole world Read more…
I have been emphasizing that we are as humans hard-wired to be egalitarian. Let me explain my reasoning for this, which should also explain why I am so positive about humanity’s future if we make the choices we need to Read more…
I have talked at length about how sustainable living (SL) is so much more than just adapting to use green technology. It is relearning how to live together in communities that my definition, identify as equitable, regenerative, resilient and adaptive. Read more…
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…