Our time balm
The temperature of anxiety is rising. Scratch the surface of more and more “normal” people and they spill out their concerns and how they are trying to cope. I wish I had some balm to offer for our times. A time balm. In the …
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Gathering in groups as society comes apart
“Everyone wants community. Unfortunately, it involves other people.” (Thus begins a post I wrote on Jem Bendell’s Deep Adaptation blog. It continues…) I used that line in lectures on frugal living when talking of the loneliness of consumerism and the benefits of sharing resources. …
R.I.P. 2019
We have entered the 2020’s. The decade, I believe, of the demise of what we took for granted as we-the-privileged of the United States feasted on the last course of the banquet set before us by fossil fuels and empire. This has been a …
Repent – another world is possible
Repent? Really? Haven’t we graduated from the angry Father God of the Israelites? Who needs a rule book with a hundred or more prescribed prayers for every micro-action of the day, like brushing your teeth and putting on your pants. We’re not nomadic tribes in …
Meet the Re-Generation
Last May, at the Global Earth Repair conference, I got my first glimmer of hope in many years. I’ve got the late-stage capitalism, ruinous-leaders, poisonous-policies blues. Big time. Speaker after speaker at the conference talked of regenerative practices to heal what ails us and …
Liberating Limits: OBG
OBG = oldies but goodies. This post from almost exactly 10 years ago is like a “report from the front” of my own thinking related to the question: How can Americans fall in love with limits the way we’ve fallen in love with freedom?” …
What will the UN Climate Conference achieve?
COP25 (the 25th Conference of the Parties convened by the United Nations to addre for 10 days in Decemberss climate change) will bring together tens of thousands to Santiago, Chile, December 2 -13, with the intent of all nations being sufficiently committed and accountable about …
Curing, Healing or Letting the Climate Disease run its course
As the climate crisis rises in public awareness, people have trouble understanding what to do – especially when the “climate doctors” fight among themselves about treatment. Using the disease model we can sort the interventions in 3 categories: curing, healing or denial/ letting the …
Advice to Trump supporters and the people who love them
I know @realdonaldtrump. Not personally but many many years ago I lived with a bully-man. He was a smart, charismatic, focused and a my-way-or-the-highway kind of guy. Before I met him people would have said I was intelligent, attractive and creative. After some years with …
Climate Change from the Inside Out: Shock. Grief. Respond. Relief. Repeat
Global warming –> global heating. Climate change –> Climate chaos. Civilizational in crisis –> Civilization headed for collapse. Systemic problems are multiplying with breakneck speed now, and “climate change” has moved, faster than anticipated, from a heady discussion to a gut-wrenching existential issue, reverberating …