Every few months I “interview” my self for my “What Could Possibly Go Right?” podcast. This time I stitched together 3 topics I ponder. 8 billion people on planet earth. How can we fathom that? What does it mean? Do we need to hit …
Why this 1992 personal finance book still has a cult following By Helaine Olen October 4, 2022 at 8:00 a.m. EDT8 min When I told Vicki Robin I wanted to visit her at her home on Whidbey Island, in Puget Sound just north of Seattle, she …
The following piece was submitted 2 years ago to an online journal about the future. The idea of linking Universal Basic Income and National Service in more nuanced and detailed than is reflected in this article, which uses Your Money or Your Life as …
Helaine Olen, another $ writer, Washington Post columnist and acquaintance of many years, decided to celebrate Your Money or Your Life’s 30th birthday by profiling me – my life/ work/ reflections. To do so, she came to my village on an island and spent 2 …
Today is EARTH OVERSHOOT DAY. Tomorrow we go into ecological deficit. Humans have used the entire annual budget of resources that can replenished by nature. We entered overshoot ~ 40 years ago. When I saw the overshoot (and collapse) graph back then, I said “Holy …
Hazel Henderson, wonder woman of green, science-based investing, the love economy, and the golden rule society, went virtual (her term for died) on May 22, 2022, at home, and very much at peace. She was/is my dear friend, inspiration, goad, mentor and cheerleader. Two weeks …
My lovely village and island is in a fight for it’s funky life in this insane financialization of real estate so that where I live is someone else’s asset class – and they have ten times the wealth I sit on. Essential workers are …
Putin’s gift, amidst the horror of war and the threat of nuclear annihilation, is showing the world our weakness: we depend on oil to run our lives. To shut him out, we shoot ourselves in the foot. Our citizens would howl as energy prices …
A social media maven – and friend – Annalis Clint – just gave me a talking-to about breaking up with Facebook as my go-to, how’s-everyone-doing way to feel connected now that I’m a pandemic social hermit. Oh, but my guts are woven into it. …
Last night I dreamed of children coming together from the 4 corners of the earth, like 4 tribes bringing their gifts. Not one of their gifts, however, were understood, or received respectfully, by the other tribes, and so they all felt confused, disappointed, unmet, …
