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…
Culture Change… Quality quantification? Comparing Asian Countries 28 May 20146 Jun 2014 In her recent, brilliant (as usual) video, "The Story of Solutions," Annie Leonard admonishes that we should stop relentlessly working toward MORE and start emphasizing BETTER. Trouble is, how do…
Culture Change… A Declaration of Interdependence~Independence Day 2013 4 Jul 20134 Jul 2013 Re-imagining Independence Day It's that time of year again. Here in our little coastal paradise, hordes or barbarians descend to get out of the inland heat, char some animal flesh, and blow…
education Lexicon of Sustainability 30 Apr 201230 Apr 2012 excerpt from Orion Magazine:"We live in a world of dwindling natural resources. The principle of sustainability offers us a roadmap for managing what we have left. Yet as we attempt…
Culture Change… Getting Inspired at Bioneers 18 Oct 20117 Apr 2013 There is so much concentrated hope in one weekend at Bioneers, it can get a person like me and thousands of other "reverent, sane people" (a.k.a. environmentalists - Caroline Casey)…
climate… ‘Contagion’ Connections: How Links Among Humans, Animals And The Environment May Be Spawning A New Class Of Infectious Diseases 30 Sep 2011 'Contagion' Connections: How Links Among Humans, Animals And The Environment May Be Spawning A New Class Of Infectious Diseases. I haven't seen the movie, but this article provides another reminder…
Culture Change… Are you a nutter? 21 Sep 20115 Aug 2011 A Fall Field Guide: Nuts. Ah, Mother Earth News... I knew you when. In fact, I probably read this article when it came out in 1988, in the library at…
Culture Change… Shopping our way out of it? 29 Jul 201128 Mar 2013 So, there's a kind of thinking about sustainability that is very pro-business, that says "if we just bought better stuff, the world would be a better place." And, to an…
revolution A Declaration of Interdependence: Re-imagining Independence Day 2 Jul 20114 Jul 2011 Re-imagining Independence Day It's that time of year again. Here in our little coastal paradise, hordes or barbarians descend to get out of the inland heat, char some animal flesh, and blow…
education Second Nature: Sustainability in Higher Education 11 Apr 201111 Apr 2011 Share the Second Nature story!. - Excellent little video about why we can't wait to make sustainability THE priority at colleges and universities.
Ponderings of a Perplexed Primate 