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Here’s a single sheet description of what the book is and does. What do you think? 2.0, 3.0 and beyond are all coming as I search for how to tell more than just you what this new work is about. It’s food and farming. It’s …
Here’s a report coauthored by my old friend Daniele Giovannucci that brings together expert global testimony into an understanding about why and how agriculture needs to change. This is a summary of the report for the curious to skim and the deeply interested to read: …
Antioch Graduation Speech on Hope in Spite of it All June 2012 Thank you for selecting me as your graduation speaker, and congratulations on your success. In my short time today I want to say why – even with a future as uncertain and discouraging …
“Chick” Callenbach was always thoughtful – kind and considered. So of course he considered us all in his last month, and wrote a final essay of wisdom and encouragement that apparently was found on his computer after he died, with instructions for publication. Here it …
While this blog is called “Your Money or Your Life” I am migrating the core understanding of living your values financially to living your values through your eating – and I’m bringing you along. The book arising from the potters wheel of my mind is …
Donella Meadows was one of my great mentors. She, Dennis Meadows and Jorgen Randers were authors of the revolutionary 1974 Limits to Growth Report. These MIT early systems thinkers had the audacity to reveal the results of their computer modeling of resource flows – to …
Three years ago I wrote a chapter for a book called Hope Beneath our Feet, a compilation of essays in response to the editor, Martin Keogh’s, question: If we’re looking down the barrel of environmental disaster, how then shall we live our lives? As I …
Want to be moved and inspired? Please take 2 minutes and read the transcript below of Grace Lee Boggs on Democracy Now yesterday in which she speaks with Amy Goodman about themes I’ve also lived and taught for years – that as we let go …
I just read a super inspiring article by Michael Sammet that wraps resilience, resourcefulness and empathy together in one narrative of creative, collaborative adaptation to the BIG changes upon us. Just my cup of tea, so to speak, since I just finished teaching “resourcefulness” as …