July 9, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Sustainability
The holocaust of leaves I spent my childhood in Queenstown Tasmania. One of the most environmentally degraded communities on Earth. There was a holocaust of trees. And leaves. And all the life that goes with trees and leaves and forests. I did not know this was a...
July 8, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The persistence of change Not in one fell swoop. But micro drop after micro drop over time. Keep showing up. Keep speaking up. Keep up the message delivery. Find the others. Amplify. Don’t make the position of those you seek to change wrong. Don’t shame, or blame....
July 7, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Coup des gens A coup d’état is an illegal replacement of one political system by another. A coup des gens, the phrase used by Shoshanna Zuboff, author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, is the forced replacement of human beings by abstract information systems. A...
July 6, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Sustainability
Run towards You could imagine we might run towards this world… Energy that is much cheaper and its byproducts do not kill us Electric vehicles….so you can breathe and our kids do not get sick Energy efficiency that benefits us all rather than the select few Not...
June 30, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
It’s complicated Means it is messy. There is a history. We need to take the time to understand the territory. Go back to source. To see from multiple perspectives, step by step. To give up our own perspective with the intention to understand. It’s complex. Means it...
June 29, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Economics Subservient to Education Imagine that? That instead of education as subservient to economics, we flipped and had economics be subservient to education? We know our education system is broken. Young creative minds are taken into a conformity-enforcing machine...