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Are you a P’optimist?

Are you a P’optimist?
Money & Life January 21, 2021 January 21, 2021 Leave a comment

New word, fresh from the fertile backrooms of my mind: P’optimist: an optimist with a pinch of pessimism to stay real. or what about… Sk’optimists: optimists with a dash of skepticism to not get all giddy. Cy’optimists: cynical optimists who dare not hope anymore. Also …

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Mom, we crashed the planet

Mom, we crashed the planet
Money & Life January 4, 2021 January 5, 2021 19 Comments

Donald Trump was right. There is a swamp. It’s not the ballast of the entrenched bureaucracies in DC that administer our laws. It’s the physics of planetary limits that will inevitably suck our civilization down into the graveyard of those that have gone before. How …

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Q Arrives in Our Town

Q Arrives in Our Town
Blessing the Hands that Feed Us / Conversation / Food & Food Systems / Freedom December 23, 2020 January 10, 2021 41 Comments

   The white nationalists have found our town, a seaside village on a long, skinny island in Puget Sound, with a Naval Air Station in the north, an historic farming town in the middle and a parfait of cultures that have over the years chosen …

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Lessons from What Could Possibly Go Right?

Lessons from What Could Possibly Go Right?
Money & Life December 7, 2020 December 7, 2020 Leave a comment

In the last eight months, I’ve hosted over 30 interviews with “cultural scouts” – people who scan for emerging trends and act for the common good. Historians. Philanthropists. Authors. Lawyers. Movement builders. Trainers. Politicians. Activists, Mostly center left. All self-reflective. Again and again I asked …

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Let’s call the whole thing off?

Let’s call the whole thing off?
Money & Life October 5, 2020 October 5, 2020 8 Comments

George and Ira Gershwin, in 1937, wrote a song called “Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off” about a couple with irreconcilable differences, driving them apart. Like so many marriages going off the rails or on the rocks, the differences seem minor, but no one is …

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Gritty Hope: now what could possibly go right?

Gritty Hope: now what could possibly go right?
Money & Life September 23, 2020 September 23, 2020 One Comment

“If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, then there is a possibility that you can contribute to making a …

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Of Zoom Lenses and Morality Gyms

Of Zoom Lenses and Morality Gyms
Money & Life August 21, 2020 August 21, 2020 10 Comments

   Every day now I roll out of bed and go right to the high-performance morality gym. I have to. The multiple existential threats we face require moral dexterity, and as a Boomer I’ve gotten flabby. At the gym I train my mind, heart, body …

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Vicki’s answers: What could possibly go right?

Vicki’s answers: What could possibly go right?
Money & Life July 21, 2020 July 23, 2020 8 Comments

Is it too weird to say that, as bad as the first half of 2020 has been, it’s been a relief? A tiny virus has achieved what decades of activism could not: stop us in our self-destructive tracks. She essentially sent us to our rooms …

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The last 75 years

The last 75 years
Money & Life July 3, 2020 July 8, 2020 33 Comments

   Think of it. I was born a mere 80 years after the end of the Civil War. My great grandmother, who I knew, was alive then. She took my great grandfather out to the territories to treat his tuberculosis. I used to think with …

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What could possibly go right?

What could possibly go right?
Money & Life June 25, 2020 June 25, 2020 Leave a comment

   You are in for a rare treat. In partnership with the Post Carbon Institute I’ve recorded a dozen interviews with cultural scouts on one question for this time of social, environmental, economic upheaval: What could possibly go right? I posted the introduction below on …

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