Jesus called for a fundamental shift from the service of money to the service of God. “Repent, for the Kingdom of God is at hand.” I translate Jesus’s message into “Seize an Alternative: An Ecological Civilization Is Possible.”
/ April 22, 2015
The conference should be of keen interest to those teachers who have been concerned that in a time of desperate crisis, the vast majority of so-called “education” proceeds as if the only matter of importance was the production of value-free scholarship and proper credentialing for service to the economy that is destroying the ecosystem.
/ April 19, 2015
The entire conference is about ethics in the broad sense. It is seeking to define what we should be working for and how this can be done in many contexts and areas of life.
/ April 19, 2015
Why is our current civilization so non-ecological? And, what are the changes in many fields that could jointly bring about an ecological civilization?
/ April 17, 2015
“Seizing an Alternative” means a society that prizes life more than money and lives in integration with the whole, that is, as a responsible part of the natural system.
/ April 12, 2015
Today many agree that we need a “paradigm change.” The “Seizing an Alternative” conference is about encouraging and implementing such a change.
/ April 5, 2015
"When I worked at the World Bank," Daly writes, "I often heard the statement, 'There is no conflict between economics and ecology. I still hear that a lot today. Is it true? Is it possible?"
/ March 6, 2015
Number 1 of the rewrite is, "Thou Shalt Not Ruin Civilization's Climate."
/ March 5, 2015
John said that he had never been able to see the man in the moon. Malcolm responded that he had always been in love with the man in the moon.
/ March 1, 2015
I strive to be as radical as I can, and probe as deeply as possible.
/ February 27, 2015
TINA is the last refuge of established orthodoxies. It protects internal failures, and allows the continuation of damage.
/ February 27, 2015
The old stories have not led us to a desired future but ever deeper into the mess we are in.
/ February 6, 2015