If you can relate to the meme here, and you’re willing to “surrender to the mystery,” you’ll love the composition of American singer-songwriter Iris Dement, below.
Category: Sustainability
What a Successful 2023 Looks Like
I found this meme from a reader quite interesting. Personally, I will call 2023 a good year to the degree it represents an overall improved quality of life for the world’s people. That means: • Full restoration of American democracy …
Tagged with: decarbonized energy and transportation, fair taxation of the rich, progress in climate change mitigation, restoration of American democracy and justice for those who tried to overthrow it, sustainability for all life forms on our home planet, the development of social programs like quality education and universal healthcare, the freedom index and the world happiness ranking
It’s a Metamorphosis
I don’t know about you, but I go back and forth on stuff like this…and I don’t use words like “imaginal.” From her bio: Dr. Jude Currivan is a cosmologist, planetary healer, futurist, author, previously one of the most senior …
Tagged with: leading edge science
Human Life Is “Unraveling,” But No One Seems To Care
This from British scientist and conservationist Charlie Gardner. It really is astonishing how little humankind is doing to prevent environmental collapse and other forms of societal decay. An important factor at play here is that the vast majority of the …
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Tagged with: 20th Century American author Upton Sinclair, a societal structure that is in the process of driving us into extinction, irreparable damage that our current life modalities are having this planet, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
… But Only God Can Make a Tree
At left we see a concept that’s not altogether weird. Trees (made by God?) stand as therapy for a planet that’s in the process of baking itself. Our unquenchable thirst to chop down what’s left of the world’s trees derives …
Tagged with: plant-based meat
Maintaining Optimism
As suggested here, many of us face challenges. Some are personal, like substance abuse. Others are societal, like ignorance and hate. Fortunately, the 9 AM Sunday sermon helps us keep a bright outlook.
Tagged with: ignorance and hatred
Why Dr. Jane Goodall Sees a Eco-Healthy Future
I listened to a recent interview in which anthropologist Jane Goodall laid out the three reasons for her overall optimism with respect to environmental recovery: the development of relevant technology, the inherent resilience of natural systems, and, above all, the …
The Woke Mind Virus
Number 4 here reminds me of my frequent conversations with my mom on politics. I wish I had a dollar for every time I said, “In my view, it’s more complicated than that.”
Tagged with: The Woke Mind Virus
Is Banning Abortion a Solid Idea?
Proponents of banning abortion stand on some set of nebulous religious principles, but those who have a sincere concern about human life would do well to consider what Colorado has accomplished with free birth control. People of intelligence who honestly …
A Merry Christmas
Even though I’m not a Christian, I’m happy to celebrate the holiday season with the hope that I (and all of us) can be a bit more Christ-like in the coming year: more compassionate, supportive of the weak, and dedicated …
Tagged with: just and verdant world
