“The idea of a non-growing economy may be anathema to an economist. But the idea of a continually growing economy … Read More
Prosperity Without Growth
Big Questions
A Paradise Built in Hell
In A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster, Rebecca Solnit looks at how people responded … Read More
The Pathways of Purpose
I’ve been thinking a lot about purpose recently, from several different angles, so as I start writing this blog post … Read More
As Within, So Without
I wonder what happens to you when you think about this coming decade. What images flicker through your mind’s eye? … Read More
If You’re Not Living On The Edge…
“Evil can hide in systems much more readily than in individuals.” Richard Rohr writes this in reference to Francis and … Read More
White Lies and the Branches on the Tree of Systemic Racism
“It’s like a tree with branches, that if you cut off one branch, don’t mean the damn tree going to … Read More
Question Thinking: From Judging to Learning
In the introduction to Change Your Questions, Change Your Life, author Marilee Adams writes: “Questions open our minds, our eyes, … Read More
Team of Teams
A book on military strategy may not seem like an obvious place to find a model for the future of … Read More
Christiana Figueres vs Tony Robbins
Christiana Figueres is one of my heroes. As executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, she was … Read More