A 5-step Program for What Ails Us – Fifth Installment

Posted by on Dec 19, 2020 in All Posts | Comments Off on A 5-step Program for What Ails Us – Fifth Installment Quickly empower youth to help create a new economy, not replicate the present one. If we keep replicating our present economy, even with some improvements, we won’t be able to fix what ails us as a society.   And, almost all of us will suffer individually, as families and communities.   We’re in the midst of a collision course with the living systems that enable our lives. On the flip side, the...
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Environmental Literacy and ALL Careers

Posted by on Nov 12, 2020 in All Posts | Comments Off on Environmental Literacy and ALL Careers Take a few seconds to imagine the world several decades in the future.   No matter what your background or values are, it’s very likely that the future you just pictured is quite different than our world today.   Things change . . . and these days, faster than ever before! Now, hone in on what people are doing in your envisioned world.  In almost any but the most bleak future you see,...
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A 5-step Program for What Ails us. Fourth Installment (of 5 – almost there!)

Posted by on Oct 26, 2020 in All Posts | Comments Off on A 5-step Program for What Ails us. Fourth Installment (of 5 – almost there!) Step 4 – Help envision and create an economy based on human well-being directly, not on growth for its own sake as a proxy for well-being. At various times, healthy living systems and individual organisms physically grow, but at other times they don’t.  In fact, physical growth in most indviduals usually slows down dramatically or comes to a complete stop after some time and total growth within...
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Another Option for Education during the COVID Pandemic:  Thinking outside the (school) box

Posted by on Jul 24, 2020 in All Posts | Comments Off on Another Option for Education during the COVID Pandemic:  Thinking outside the (school) box As the parent of two middle school students in the Boulder Valley School District (BVSD) in Boulder County, Colorado, I have more than just passing interest in the debates, discussions and news about how or if kids can go back to school this fall.   It’s a big deal. The options in every discussion and website I’ve seen so far seem limited to the following:  1) “Go back to school as normal”...
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Outside the Box; Contemplating Nested Challenges

Posted by on Apr 16, 2020 in All Posts | Comments Off on Outside the Box; Contemplating Nested Challenges At the beginning of March,2020, while riding the Corona chairlift at Eldora Ski area, I caught the bug.  No, not “that” bug (some joking on the lift notwithstanding).   I was re-infected with the love of wild winds, deep snow and the greens, whites, blues and greys of the Rockies.    The slopes were almost deserted, affording me a lot of solitary time to contemplate.  But the...
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