What is it about Random Selection??
In recent months I’ve discovered that random selection offers unexpected gifts to our efforts to create more fair, functional, and intelligent politics …
“Dark Google”, privacy and power
As the information age and big data colonize everything in life – expanding now into reality itself – we face an erosion …
Upshifting our limited empathy to face Big Issues
Our empathy is built in us with a kind of disconnect which can make it hard to usefully integrate our feelings with …
Climate challenges us to reconnect to place, reality and reason
We are out of sync with the world and especially with “place”. We lack the insights and capacities that come from knowing …
From Conflict to Creative Collaboration: A Review of Rosa Zubizarreta’s User’s Guide to Dynamic Facilitation
Rosa Zubizarreta’s new book on Dynamic Facilitation is the best description I know of a truly remarkable process for generating breakthroughs when …
Competing Narratives about the Ukraine Crisis
There are competing narratives about what’s going on in the Ukraine and why, and it behooves us as citizens to expose ourselves …
Strategic Climate Activism: Resist – and build a cooperative, democratic economy
The climate crisis is far more than an environmental issue. Adequately ramping up efforts to address it will require prioritizing a climate-justice …
Major legislation to counter Citizens United / Big Money in elections
Political life in the US is being distorted by the hidden big money interventions enabled by the US Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens …
Climate Journalism, Climate Passion, Climate Conscience and Action
There may be no crisis more important than climate disruption, for two reasons. First, its impact on humanity and life on earth …
The taproot of wise democracy
“Co-intelligence is the capacity to call forth the wisdom and resources of the whole and its members to enhance the longterm vitality …