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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 →
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 →
What History's Breaking Points Teach Us About Adaptive Resiliency Part 1 — Adaptive-Resiliency – Part II will be posted Friday night at the new Adaptive Resiliency site. Version One — For the Community A lot of people are tired right now. Not the kind of tired that sleep fixes. The kind that settles into your... Continue Reading →
Until Everyone Is Safe: World Refugee Day, Our Children's Worries, and the Choice We Still Have The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world. — Paul Farmer Today is June 20th. World Refugee Day. And this one is not like the others. This year marks... Continue Reading →
In an Age of Information, Context Is Intelligence Why understanding — not data — is the real skill of our time We are living through the most information-rich moment in human history. About twenty years ago, the entire world produced roughly two zettabytes of data in a year. Today we produce well over a hundred... Continue Reading →
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 →
A Voting Rights Reflection for a Democracy That Must Be Practiced Excerpt: Rights do not survive on memory alone. From New York's early suffrage exclusions to Mississippi's machinery of disenfranchisement, from Selma to the Supreme Court's 2026 gutting of the Voting Rights Act, the history of the ballot shows that democracy requires constant public defense... Continue Reading →
“You cannot easily fit women into a structure that is already coded as male; you have to change the structure.”— Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto There are quotes that explain a problem, and then there are quotes that expose the architecture of the problem itself. Mary Beard’s words do the latter. They remind... Continue Reading →
When the Helper Becomes the Hole Two Wake-Up Calls About AI Agents — and How We Use Them Anyway A Climate Tribe heads-up on digital resiliency There are weeks when the news lands like a cold splash of water. This was one of them. Two stories crossed my desk back to back, and both of... Continue Reading →
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 →
What to Do When Someone Tries to Humiliate You in Public There is a particular kind of silence that follows a public insult. The room tilts. Heads turn, or pretend not to. Something hot moves up through your chest, and a part of you — older than language — wants to either disappear or strike... Continue Reading →
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