The Sustainability Revolution – part 7: Taking Back our Power: part 4

“Between stimulus and response there is a space.  In that space is our power to choose our response.  In our response lies our growth and freedom” Viktor Frankel.    If we are to thrive in the new world coming, we need two major things to change.  One is to move Read more…

Miscellaneous Musings – Part 13: Spirituality and Connectedness  

I have gone on at length in this blog about Spirituality and connectedness.  I even wrote an 18-part series of posts in this blog starting June 2021 (Spirituality, service and Connectedness).  I mentioned the Roseto effect briefly in an earlier Espe post (Pathways to a Better Future – Espe part Read more…

Creating Sustainable Community – Part 10: The spiritual path – all about choices.

” There are hundreds of paths up the mountain, all leading in the same direction, so it doesn’t matter which path you take. The only one wasting time is the one who runs around and around the mountain, telling everyone that his or her path is wrong” Hindu Proverb.  Sustainable Read more…

Spirituality, Service, and Connectedness – Part 6 – Mass Extinctions, Humanity, and Meaning.

Throughout the Earth’s long history of life, there have been 5 mass extinctions due to cataclysmic conditions.  (A mass extinction is usually defined as a loss of about three quarters of all species in existence across the entire Earth over a “short” geological period of time. Given the vast amount Read more…

A New Beginning – Part 4: The Great Reset, but which one?

I have been reading a lot these past few months, on all kinds of media (Left, Right, Mass, and Alternate), about something called the ‘Great Reset.’  This ‘Great Reset’ agenda sounds OK on the surface until one looks more closely at what is being said and who is saying it.  Read more…

A New Beginning – Part 3: Introducing Integral Theory (Ken Wilber)

As most of you will realize in reading my blog, I spend more time talking about our collective cognition as the problem and not just the technological problems we create through our lifestyle choices.  Environmental Educator David Orr talks about how we try to tweak ourselves out of our problems Read more…

A New Beginning – Part 2: Nova Renascentia (New Renaissance)

Only through illumination of the past does a new future become visible.  Here is where I take an incredibly complex idea and distill it down to an essential 100 words.  I have been sat at my computer this past first week of January 2021 observing all the incredible goings-on.  Obviously, Read more…