A message to every young person about the Climate and Ecological Emergency Imagine waking up to clean air, drinking water you never have to worry about, eating food grown in healthy soil, and looking out at a world full of life — forests, rivers, animals, and people all thriving together. That should not be a... Continue Reading →
The Measure of a Leader in the Age of Five Emergencies
A Flag Day reflection on power, conscience, and the courage to be humanitarian first Today is Flag Day. On June 14, 1777, the Second Continental Congress resolved that the new nation would carry thirteen stripes and thirteen stars in a blue field — what they called a new constellation. Two years earlier, on June 14,... Continue Reading →
Solutions Don’t Travel in Shipping Containers
What I learned when I asked an AI the simplest question I could think of — and why the honest answer is more hopeful than the easy one I asked an AI a plain question: What is the best way to share climate solutions worldwide? I expected a tidy answer. A list. Maybe a tech... Continue Reading →
Who Is Doing Your Thinking?
On Controlled Thinking, Critical Thinking, and the Five Emergencies There is a kind of quiet that only arrives late at night. The phone is dark. The day is finally spent. And the mind, set loose at last, begins to wander. Many people use that quiet to replay old arguments — to rehearse what they wish... Continue Reading →
Some doors only open after something breaks.
The notes vanished. The path got clearer. The setback is the setup. Hi friends, I lost my notes. All of them. Every electronic note I had built studying the CLCPA, the Scoping Plan, and the broader climate-learning tips I had been collecting along the way — gone in a single sweep. Months of careful work.... Continue Reading →
Seven Years After the Warning: I Pressed Play Again — and the Earth Had Already Answered
A personal reckoning with David Wallace-Wells, then and now I pulled up the old episode again this week. The Doctor's Farmacy conversation with David Wallace-Wells — recorded in July 2019 — sat in my browser like a letter I had written to myself and forgotten to open. Back then, his book The Uninhabitable Earth was... Continue Reading →
The Operating System the Emergency Demands — direct, unapologetic, matching your manifesto register.
Why atomic Linux distros — Bluefin, Aurora, Silverblue, Secureblue — and Qubes OS deserve a seat at the climate table, alongside the AI we are learning to wield with care. "Qubes OS is a security-focused operating system that allows you to organize your digital life into compartments called 'qubes.' If one qube is compromised, the... Continue Reading →
Sleeping Through the Emergency: What Thomas Moore’s Quote Means for Our Time
“In many of the segments of culture today, the meaning of life is often reduced to cruising with the popular culture. It doesn’t take a course in psychoanalysis to glimpse severe anxiety behind this posture of know-nothingness. If you had ideas and took yourself seriously, you would have to be constantly awake, educating yourself, and... Continue Reading →
A Sacred Vow to Mom: Protecting the Women Who Protected the World
From peace movements to phishing emails, from carnations to carbon — what mothers truly deserve this Mother's Day, and every day after. "I wanted it to be a day of sentiment, not profit." — Anna Jarvis, founder of Mother's Day This Mother's Day, I want to tell you a story you probably don't know. A... Continue Reading →
Standing When It’s Hard: Moral Courage in an Age of Crisis
Standing When It’s Hard: Moral Courage in an Age of Crisis In 1950, amid a climate of fear and political conformity, Margaret Chase Smith rose in the Senate and delivered her Declaration of Conscience. She knew the risks. She knew the cost of dissent. And still, she chose to speak. “Moral cowardice that keeps us... Continue Reading →
Climate Emergency: If Calgary Can Do It, Your City Can Too
An Earth Day call for cities to stop waiting and start learning Tomorrow, Wednesday, April 22, 2026, is Earth Day, and this year’s global theme is “Our Power, Our Planet.” That theme matters because it reminds us that climate action is not only about national pledges or international summits. It is also about what happens... Continue Reading →