Plant the Seeds, Get Out of the Way
For certain people, the shock, the finality of the word “collapse” is what it takes to get them out of their own head.
Mom, We Crashed the Planet
Donald Trump was right. There is a swamp. It’s not the ballast of the entrenched bureaucracies in DC that administer our laws. It’s the physics of planetary limits that will inevitably suck our civilization down into the graveyard of those that have gone before. How do we rescue ourselves?
The Optimist
if you are planting a seed and someone tells you that the world is ending
carry on planting your seed
Me? A Racist?!: Getting Honest with Myself
A few weeks ago, I and other DA volunteers and core team members took part in three days of training on diversity and decolonisation.
Hitting the Wall
This article, based on a podcast for Inner Green Deal, describes how I see the world today, at 62, when I embark upon the last season of my life and maybe of our species on this planet.
DAF: Two Years On
Although DAF began in response to climate change projections, DAF now explores much more. Surrounded by a global pandemic and a toxic culture that sacrifices the people most marginalised by society, many people are recognising deep patterns that contribute to what is happening and are influencing...
Eschatological/Scatological* Visions: A Model of Reconciliation
Our model of civilization based on growth is coming to an end. And the new model, compatible with the limits of the Earth, is not yet ready. More than ever, the activism needed to face this crucial time for the planet and humanity demands realism, maturity, and serenity. Establishing a model of reconciliation...
In the Grand Scheme of Things
In sum, there are days when I seesaw between two extreme emotional poles: despair and grief (the words are not too strong) on the one hand, and on the other, profound admiration and hope for the great things humanity can achieve if we put our minds to it.
Mapping Hi-Zex Island
On the first day
we viewed the island from above:
a lightning flower flung across the skin of the sea
under the burning eye of the sun.
Diversity & Decolonisation Training
I’ve always liked to think of myself as someone who’s loving and inclusive, non-discriminatory, who sees people just as people – valuable and vulnerable, exactly like me.