Culture Change… The woman who solved economic tragedy 2 Feb 20166 Mar 2019 Elinor Ostrom's on-the-ground research showed how actual people within real, living cultures overcome Hardin's "Tragedy of the Commons" (more accurately, “The Tragedy of Unmanaged, Laissez-Faire, Common-Pool Resources with Easy Access…
education… Saving What Matters: Taking Sustainability Personally 20 Sep 201520 Sep 2015 I was asked to deliver a talk to the School of Arts, Design and Media at Nanyang Technological University last week. As I was preparing, I recorded a rehearsal version…
education… Celebrate Life’s B(earth) Day 25 Feb! 24 Feb 2015 A little dash of perspective, from WHY CELEBRATING LIFE’S B(EARTH)DAY IS IMPORTANT TO BIOMIMICRY BY DAYNA BAUMEISTER We need perspective. And no where is this perspective more obvious than in…
heroes… An Ecology Of Mind – A daughter’s portrait of Gregory Bateson 19 Jan 201519 Jan 2015 I was lucky to see this at the Rio Theatre in Santa Cruz a couple years ago. Now it's available to the world. An Ecology Of Mind- A Daughter's…
education… Conservation Drones? 4 Sep 20148 Sep 2014 When I was slogging through the swamps and slipping down the mud-slicked trails of Sumatra, following orangutans, I often daydreamed about how the right tech would make the job so…
Culture Change… Post-capitalism? Property and money 3 Sep 20141 Sep 2014 Charles Eisenstein has a thoughtful little post about the terms and meanings of capital, property and ownership - how we construct these in the current money culture, and how that…
climate… News from Indonesia’s Forests 14 Aug 201414 Aug 2014 Visiting Mongabay.com/Mongabay.org is always an emotional roller-coaster. The reporting is great, and what they have to say is... often not so great. The latest news out of Indonesia (especially Sumatra) is…
Culture Change… Reviewing The Systems View of Life 24 Jul 201424 Jul 2014 Zygote Quarterly has just published the review of The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision (Fritjof Capra and Pier Luigi Luisi, 2014) that I worked on as a co-author. Like…
Culture Change… Interdependence~Independence Day 2014 4 Jul 2014 Re-imagining Independence Day It's that time of year again, and I'm an ocean away from my home country. Of course, I can't let a Fourth of July pass without remembering my…
disasters… Depleted forests force Borneo Orangutans to nest in oil palm estates 30 Jun 2014 Our furry orange friends are just trying to find a place to sleep for the night... they've had to go from secure and cozy places where they could make a nice bed…
Ponderings of a Perplexed Primate 