After the Earthquake
"Loho communities" are ones that aim for wholistic harmony with the rest of the natural world.
/ June 1, 2015
Notes from the Climate Track
One of the strengths of Whiteheadian-Hartshornean process thought is that it leads people to care deeply about the long-term good of the world, regardless of whether they will be part of it.
/ June 1, 2015
Corporate Rules (and Nations)
"When Corporations Rule the World" is a powerful book title from the '90s which I can't help but reference when I read about much that is happening.
/ May 22, 2015
Design Thinking
Thinking wrong can change the world. -- John Bielenberg
/ May 22, 2015
Rethinking Religion
Dowd writes, “When religion fails, economics is unbounded by even the crudest requirements to protect nature’s life support systems. When religion fails, economics becomes demonic.”
/ May 22, 2015
The Genius of the Compost
My point is that even if the solution to the problem of global warming lies at hand, it cannot easily be seized. Our family lives, our educational system, and our religious teaching would have to change too.
/ May 14, 2015
Dangerous Perspective
While the influence of linear perspective on Renaissance architecture and European cities is well understood and obvious, its influence on Western science and how we see ourselves in relationship to the natural world is less known but deep.
/ May 13, 2015
Rethinking Development
Providing more services to an increasing population can only be met if those with enough voluntarily decide to give what they really don’t need to support the many who have too little.
/ May 13, 2015
Learning from a Split Second
The Earth is typically thought of as nothing but stuff -- an idea so commonplace that it’s hard to imagine it having any kind of history at all. It's “just the way the world is.”
/ May 6, 2015
Conf. Guide: Art Lover
The very act of being creative is a kind of defiance of the dominant, deterministic model that shapes the university and so much of the world.
/ April 24, 2015
Conf. Guide: Scientist
If the natural sciences adopt a more inclusive worldview -- one that does not deny the role of values and meaning in the world and that can do justice to more of the scientific evidence -- we will be in a much better position to respond wisely to our crises.
/ April 24, 2015
Conf. Guide: Christian
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