The harder things get, the more we need stone soup. Growing up, one of my favorite stories was the folk tale called Stone Soup. You’ve probably heard a version of it. It’s a story about sharing and transformation. Stone Soup came back to me by apparent coincidence last week, screaming…

We need another paradigm. “We cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them.” — Albert Einstein A science writer on Medium recently wrote about his conversation with a World Bank executive. In ten minutes, the banker convinced the writer that climate change was a devastating…

Bhutan, Cuba, Rojava show how modern humans and Nature can coexist Can you name a society where people have good lives without destroying the natural world? Living in an industrial capitalist or socialist society, you’ve probably never seen a place like that, but they exist. It’s hard to imagine three…

Things a sane society could do if it wanted to survive. “Hope is like a road in the country. There never was a road, but when many people walk that way, the road comes into existence.” Lin Yu-Tang Suppose your new party won a big election on a platform of…

Stop the chemical war on Nature. Feeling sad this morning. Reading the World Wildlife Fund report on the global crash in wildlife populations. Our world now has about 70% less non-human life than 50 years ago, and some areas have lost as much as 94%. I mourn the thousands of…

Faith in the source of life will sustain us. — After Sept 11, 2001, I listened to some Muslim students from Indonesia talking about why Islam would beat the American-led Empire. “They don’t believe in anything,” one said. “They just want more for themselves; they don’t answer to any higher power. We follow Allah. …

Can we improve people’s lives without killing Nature? An allegory told by a rat, as related by Robert C. O’Brien in Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH:: “A woman in a small town bought a vacuum cleaner. Her name was Mrs. Jones, and up until then, she, like all…

Strong communities protect us better than outside militias. Just three months after San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin was recalled for being “soft on crime,” local media and police advocates are screaming louder than ever about crime in the city. News stories about crime run every day. …

Are way deeper than fossil fuels. People who fear climate change (AKA global warming), usually blame rising temperatures, droughts and floods on people burning too much oil, coal, and gas. These “fossil fuels” warm the globe by putting a heat-trapping blanket of carbon dioxide (CO2) over Earth. …