The Great Healing – part 26: Does Power Corrupt?

“We are not going to be able to operate our spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common.  It has to be everybody or nobody” Buckminster Fuller.  Ultimate power used to reside with the monarchies and emperors in Read more…

The Sustainability Revolution – part 27: Ponderings, Trust and Morals – Part 1  

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…

The Sustainability Revolution – part 9: New Leadership Arising

“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand” Woodrow Wilson. Read more…

Empathy, Leadership, and Civic Agency Part 1

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…

Manifesting a New Global Society while keeping our diverse global cultures 3 – Leadership

As an academic, in a university setting, I found myself leading a sustainability degree program and the charge for many sustainability projects and situations that I felt needed change on campus and within the local communities.  I would not say I am a person who aspires to be a leader.  Read more…