As storytellers who hold the power of global media dissemination, we have an opportunity to contribute to and change the conversation around a host of issues, including immigration, the environment, gender and racial justice, and so many others.
/ May 3, 2018
In part five of our series on public banking, S. L. Mintz considers several public financing models. "But before embracing public banks’ promise of low cost funding, advancement of local priorities and welcome returns on investment," he says, "informed taxpayers should weigh risks that can derail good intentions."
/ April 19, 2018
Fresh proposals can inform the debate about public banking in California. Toward that end, Pando Populus invites leading and original thinkers...
/ February 21, 2018
Pope Francis’ bold clarion call in Laudato Si’ is passionate but also thoughtful and undogmatic in exemplary ways. Even while summonsing the best conclusions and consensus of the scientific community, there is a tone of humility and a recognition that knowledge is always partial and emergent.
/ November 1, 2017
The Pando clone embodies linkages along many vectors: roots to stems, soil to plants, birds to boles, life to death to rebirth. Our social community and the ideas spurred from within that gathering linked previously disparate entities, too.
/ October 27, 2017
Pando Populus recently accepted and strengthened the idea of using the upcoming Los Angeles Olympics as an occasion to set high but not impossible goals for LA. With sincere backing from institutions and individuals I believe these goals could move LA a long way in the direction of becoming a model for an ecological civilization.
/ October 18, 2017
Marcus Eriksen and his friends understand the damage that can be done by plastics far better than the rest of us. But they also know that simply informing us will do little to change our behavior. If we are to be redirected away from our suicidal behavior, we must be grasped by images.
/ October 12, 2017
Fresh proposals can inform the debate about public banking in California. Toward that end, Pando Populus invites leading and original thinkers...
/ October 1, 2017
The “eternal rest” of which some speak would, I suspect, be hard for Vern to take.
/ August 28, 2017
My mission in life is to nourish and support organizations and communities that are change-makers in the world and Pando is a perfect match.
/ August 7, 2017
Pando is all about community and connection -- connection to each other, connection to the Earth, connection between all living creatures -- with a focus on the magical role trees play in our lives.
/ August 7, 2017
My expectation and intention is that in this odyssey, new epiphanies will take place and that the relationships developed on the journey will bear fruit in surprising ways.
/ August 7, 2017