by administrator | Jan 12, 2023 | Uncategorized
Bad Mood Rising? What’s your mood these days, in this world of tumult and change? How is your mood affected by events in the world, events in your life, and the assessments you make about them? How are the assessments you make affected by your mood? I’ll...
by administrator | Jan 2, 2023 | Uncategorized
My 2011 New Years greeting still seems appropriate, 12 years later: Let me start by wishing you joy, love and fulfillment in the new year, and thank you for your commitment to the mission we all share, in these dangerous and challenging times. What is that...
by administrator | Dec 6, 2022 | Uncategorized
POLY GOT A CRACKUP? Call it what you will, it’s the all too familiar water we’re swimming in—and will be swimming in for some time to come. Familiar enough that it now has a name: Polycrisis. Or Polycrises. Permacrisis. Messes of messes. Wicked problems....
by administrator | Nov 23, 2022 | Uncategorized
COP27 There’s lots being written and spoken about the very mixed bag that was COP27. On one hand, the “loss and damage” agreement, pledging to provide funding to climate-vulnerable countries. On the other hand, weasel words about fossil fuels, and...
by administrator | Nov 11, 2022 | Uncategorized
REFLECTIONS The “panic now, it’s all melting down” tribe and “lol nothing’s happening, chill” tribes are in a mutual gaslighting equilibrium. Me, I’m above these simplistic either/or things, I’m in a complex superposition of chilling and panicking. — Venkatesh Rao...
by administrator | Oct 13, 2022 | Uncategorized
“WE ARE EARTHLINGS, NOT HUMANS” We lost an intellectual, creative, and moral giant this week, when Bruno Latour, philosopher, anthropologist and sociologist, died at 75. He was author of We Have Never Been Modern (which I have not yet read), Down to Earth:...