Dear friends, The challenges of our times are leading to a number of very creative responses at local levels. The responses I’m sharing below involve increasing capacity for local people to support local people in ways that are both innovative and hundreds of years old. It is fascinating to watch …
Ring the bells that still can ringForget your perfect offeringThere is a crack, a crack in everythingThat’s how the light gets in. …
Time-sensitive through March 18, 2026. See “IF YOU’RE QUICK”, below. Dear friends, Many of you know that I participated in the 1986 …
I’ve been promoting mini-publics – citizen assemblies, citizens juries, citizen councils, etc. – for more than two decades. Their design is a …
Dear friends, Today I realized I need to add another source of collective (and individual!) wisdom – Attunement. This source has been …
Dear friends, While working on my last blog post about Audrey Tang’s work, I was also helping organize and edit a book …
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——-My quiet winter fundraising campaignwill continue through January…So far we’ve received $775 from 15 people(out of 1500 subscribers).Might you join them?If you …
Dear friends The intention of this series of posts has been to demonstrate the value of engaging chatbots in respectful collaborative explorations …
Dear friends, This round I asked Chat GPT, AlterAI and Claude to look over their individual responses to the previous rounds’ prompts …