by administrator | Apr 19, 2021 | Uncategorized
Dear Councilmembers, As Palo Alto’s first Chief Sustainability Officer (2013 through 2018), and the staff lead on the initial S/CAP, I hope you’ll permit me to offer a few comments for tonight’s meeting, even though I am not a resident and no longer have a...
by administrator | Apr 15, 2021 | Uncategorized
People are hungry for meaningful conversations—that move worlds. Let’s have some! Last year, in the early days of the pandemic, some 500 people joined me for a series of online conversations about COVID, the climate crisis, and “living with grace, calm and...
by administrator | Apr 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
Sandra Pina of Quiero/Madrid interviews me about purpose, courage, the SDGs, and creating new worlds—and new ways of doing business that serve both stakeholders and the living systems of this planet, on which all we value depends.
by administrator | Apr 10, 2021 | Uncategorized
I just watched Greta Thunberg’s recent interview with the Financial Times. Greta seems not to be trapped by the past (in the ways that most of us are) in her calls to “treat the crisis as a crisis,” not as a call to improve and “do better.” “We need...
by administrator | Jan 15, 2021 | Uncategorized
“The ultimate, hidden truth of the world, is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.” —David Graeber, RIP Happy new year, and welcome back—to a year that we all hope is really new—and that is already busy shaking us...
by administrator | Jun 15, 2020 | Uncategorized
Please join me Tuesday, June 16, 12:30p-2:00p Pacific Time for the fifth in our series of online conversations, exploring how we all might live with grace, calm, and power in this VUCA world—and help guide what Dr. Fernando Flores calls the “reconfiguration of...
