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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…
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…
climate…

In the red again

20 Aug 201421 Aug 2014
As a species, we're into deficit spending for the year on the stuff that really matters, the stuff that keeps us going.  Yesterday was estimated to be Earth Overshoot Day 2014: the day…
climate…

In these times of change…

26 Jun 2014
A fascinating new piece, Want to Change the World? Read This First by Richard Heinberg was published on Resilience.org.  He moves through important ideas from anthropologist Marvin Harris's cultural materialism…
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…

Education for Sustainability: What Every College Student Should Know

21 Apr 2014
If you happen to be in Singapore and you can make it by on the 30th... The Environment and Sustainability Research Cluster of HSS cordially invite you to a seminar…
Culture Change…

Qualities of a Global Citizen Game Changer

7 Aug 20137 Aug 2013
I'm grateful to be enrolled in the pilot of a new Pachamama Alliance initiative called GC101.  We had our first virtual meeting a couple of hours ago.  They asked us…
Culture Change…

Keep your paint off my magic mirror!

6 Apr 20136 Apr 2013
Alex Steffen, leading Worldchanger, had the following post (28 March 2013): Dark Gray Paint If you want to try to change the world, you will inevitably encounter the guy with…
Culture Change…
22 Feb 201322 Feb 2013
...a healthy relationship between humans and nature is a symbiotic one. We cannot live without nature, but we also cannot live without altering it. Whether we do so with understanding…
education…

My 2013 Resolution…

4 Jan 2013
  How does xkcd know so much about me?

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