“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”—Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Thoreau’s observation was written more than 170 years ago, yet it still speaks to a recognizable modern condition: the sense that time is passing while one’s deeper capacities, commitments, or aspirations remain unrealized. The problem is not that everyone must pursue a... Continue Reading →
From Taking to Giving: Why the Climate Emergency Demands a Human Transformation
Since our inception on this planet, many of us — not all, thank goodness — have taken from others. This is not a comfortable truth, but it is a truth worth facing plainly, because the times we are living through demand honesty more than comfort. The Oldest Story We Have From the time of cavemen... Continue Reading →
(Big Wow) Air, Water, and Electricity: Inside China’s Six-Part Plan to Escape the Oil Age
Air, Water, and Electricity: Inside China's Six-Part Plan to Escape the Oil Age A Climate Change Community breakdown of the Snap Shift video “China's New Energy Breakthrough Is Shocking Everyone” There are moments in the Climate and Ecological Emergency when a single story helps us see the whole board at once. A recent video from... Continue Reading →
Climate and Ecological Collapse Demand AI — Not Fear of It
A Problem the Brain Was Never Built to Hold The Climate and Ecological Emergency was never a simple problem, and it will never yield to a simple slogan. It is a living system — a knot of feedback loops, delayed consequences, political inertia, economic resistance, and the stubborn architecture of human psychology. We are not... Continue Reading →
evolution of media
Media politics are growing stronger and stronger, locally and internationally. Politicians are aware of media attention and often attempt to manage the flow of information to their own advantage. The amount of information available to all of us increases in leaps and bounds, but as the volume grows, so does the amount of false and... Continue Reading →
the lion heart…
“Our route toward spiritual evolution is radiantly clear. We all have our own unique individual journey to walk toward enlightenment. Living on the brink of evolutionary change means that new ground is being broken and new consciousness is being raised. Truth is of the essence – we have no dogma, no set formula, no prescribed... Continue Reading →