John deGraaf has made another great film that’s both funny and searing in its critique of the toxic by-products of the  consumer culture. It’s called What’s the Economy for Anyway? and you can watch a trailer on YouTube. It stars Dave Batker, an ecological economist, …

The New York Times article “After Escaping Jobless Rolls, Trauma May Linger” profiles several people who’ve found work after 6 months to 2 years of unemployment, likening their anxieties and broken relationships to PTSD. They say, “It is not clear whether those who have gone …

What’s in a name? After all, it’s the ‘thing’ not the ‘name’ that matters. But I discovered about the Discover your Enough Point teleclass (new one starting in March – Free Intro Class on Tuesday, February 23rd) that the title wasn’t getting to the point. It’s …

Well, pretty far. I don’t know if this will attract you to my Discover Your Enough Point course or send you running in the other direction, but out of curiosity I went looking on the web for a song i wrote and recorded ten years …

By chance or by luck or by some mysterious design, I was invited at the last minute to do a teleclass on Saturday as part of the Women on the Edge of Evolution series. The topic was Having Enough for Life and it was truly …

Last night 40 people and I “gathered” in a virtual workshop room to consider the rich questions of “How much is enough of anything? How do we know? What happens next – after you recognize that you have enough?” Would you like to hear what …

Another big picture post from Brazil, now a hotel room in Rio headed home in a day. Reading about the Climate Summit in Copenhagen and thinking about the roles of personal change (Your Money or Your Life) and community change (Transition Movement). COP15, as it …

If you aren’t on my personal list, perhaps you missed this: Two powerful teleclasses begin in January 2010: Discover Your Enough Point, my flagship course for shifting from overwhelm to contentment. Free introduction January 5. Four weekly class series begins either January 26. Conscious Money …

Since John deGraaf did such a fine summary of the GNH conference, and those deeply interested can dig deeper here, I want to explore how GNH might translate to a US setting. It’s my “does it hoe corn” eye – what might it take for …

While I’ve been on a wild goose chase here in Brazil to replace my stolen computer cable and now to replace my kaput memory chip, John deGraaf wrote an extraordinarily clear summary of the GNH conference on Worldchanging.com . He gives a summary of the …