January opportunity #1: Can Conversations on Crises Change Civilization?
Powerful conversations have a track record of impacting individuals and systems in significant ways. Thus, for many of us who practice and …
Moving beyond systemic blocks to caring
The social systems we live in – cultural, economic, political, and the rest – often make it difficult to effectively care. Understanding …
The co-intelligent satisfaction of needs
All the activities of life can be viewed as efforts to satisfy fundamental needs. The specific things we think we want or …
Self-managed villages of tiny houses => many solutions!
Self-managed villages of tiny houses can address many of the ills of homelessness, middle class struggles, civic belt-tightening, sustainability, quality of life …
Evolving Empathy, personal and systemic
Empathy starts out as a personal feeling of resonance with another’s pain or joy. It moves on to become the practice of …
Our transformational dance with climate is underway
Al Gore has done us the favor of compiling a LOT of information on positive developments in society’s responses to climate change. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Why we should give free money to everyone
“I am now convinced that the simplest approach… to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed measure: the …