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“Getting” FourYearsGo, and diving in

FourYearsGo (4YG) is a planetary effort to draw together people and organizations working to shift civilization in positive directions, with the intention to make clear progress by 2014. Their view is that the next four years will determine the qu…

Brilliant Avatar critique misses important point

A reader from South Africa, Pam Sykes, alerted me to an absolutely fascinating and devastating review of Avatar, in which there is much truth and a wealth of sci-fi and fantasy background information. http://asubtleknife.wordpress.com/2010/01/10/l…

Are Disrupted Town Hall Meetings an Evolutionary Opportunity?

Disturbance represents diverse life energies trying to find their placein the next wave of Life. Dear friends, We are watching some intense disturbances in the public debate over health care. Before I explore them, I offer this full disclosure sta…

Thoughts on an amazing commencement speech by Paul Hawken

Paul Hawken is author of a number of remarkable books whose titles alone contribute to our thinking — titles like SEVEN TOMORROWS, THE ECOLOGY OF COMMERCE, NATURAL CAPITALISM and BLESSED UNREST. Several years ago he founded a vast, remarkable, in…

Complexity & Imagination

Sheri Herndon sent me the remarkable quotes below, coming to me as I explore the Tao of evolutionary revolution (or is it revolutionary evolution?). I have such strong responses, both rejoicing and protesting what these writers say. Here’s a few c…