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Category: Culture Change

How human cultures change, and the tools for managing change and promoting changes for the better.

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Earth Day & March for Science

22 Apr 2017
I'm heading to the lovely Santa Cruz March for Science and Earth Day celebration, and wanted to share a song to celebrate that: (You can also see the lyrics to…
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The Education and Sustainability book is in press

26 Feb 2017
In case you've been wondering why you haven't heard much from me lately, for the last few months I've been busy preparing the manuscript that just went to the publisher.…
Culture Change…

How do living systems ‘prepare, leverage and bounce back’ from times of crisis?

24 Dec 2016
Rachel Hahs posted some amazing biomimetic analogies and questions for understanding how we respond to our current time of crisis and transformation through a contemplation of how nature expresses resilience…
Culture Change

This Year’s Thanksgiving Thoughts

23 Nov 2016
It is the eve of Thanksgiving in the United States, and in keeping with my annual tradition, I'd like to remind you that Friday is Black Friday Buy Nothing Day (and also to let…
climate…

Star Trek or Little House on the Prairie, the Red/Blue Divide, and Imagining Complexly

10 Nov 201611 Nov 2016
The US election results of 8 Nov 2016 were a bit shocking to me. David Wong at Cracked.com provided a strikingly insightful explanation of why I and my ivory tower, liberal…
climate…

THE WORLD IN 2050: CREATING/IMAGINING JUST CLIMATE FUTURES: A NEARLY CARBON-NEUTRAL CONFERENCE

31 Oct 2016
THE WORLD IN 2050: CREATING/IMAGINING JUST CLIMATE FUTURES: A NEARLY CARBON-NEUTRAL CONFERENCE 24 October - 13 November 2016 from Resilience.org : Introducing … The Nearly Carbon-Free Academic Conference: The World in 2050 by John Foran…
climate…

The Scale of Change Over Time

12 Sep 2016
(or "The difference between rust and fire") Randall Munroe has given us a great way to look at climate change over a somewhat-deep-time perspective.  (Remember, I'm an anthropologist, so 20,000…
Culture Change…

Cultivating Ecosystem Gardens of Health and Hope

20 Jun 2016
This is a talk I gave last week at the conference "Spontaneous Beauties?" World Gardens and Gardens in the World at NTU (YouTube video of practice talk, and SlideShare of…
money culture

The Myth of Bartering and the Realities of Sharing and Gift Economies

14 Jun 201615 Jun 2016
In their ethnographic research, anthropologists do not find barter economies among people who have never used money.  Much more prevalent are gift economies: a complex and time-extended form of reciprocal altruism.  Often there…
Culture Change…

Mind-mapping a career path

19 May 201619 May 2016
I'm deep in job search mode, meaning I'm spending a lot of time just looking for something that might fit, and sending out applications.  But there are deeper questions I…

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