Rethinking Money
Notes on a workshop with the authors of “Rethinking Money”. Cool take-home: 3-D graph specifying sustainability as a function of finding the right balance between efficiency and diversity/resilience.
Social Technology
Saving Our Children: Connecting to Ourselves for Sustainable Well-being (video)
Video of a recent 60-minute talk with music in 9, bite-sized bits, entitled: “Saving Rumi: Connecting to Ourselves for Sustainable Well-being”. It’s a good summary of the sustainable well-being project. Through words and music, the talk discusses how our current way of life is the largest failure in human history, advocates making changes to maximize sustainable well-being, describes some psychological principles needed, and suggests solutions, ranging from a scientific and cultural project called “Open Source Life Design”, to solutions being modeled by pioneering communities throughout the world, to an incubating idea for a Community Supported Sustainable Lake House (CSSL).
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Cocaine-Firefly Principle
This Cocaine-firefly Principle is potentially very important given the need for us to maximize sustainable well-being by enjoying more and using less.
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Time Poverty
Time poverty — not having the time we need to enjoy life. Today Americans work more than medieval peasants did, 9 weeks more than our peers in Western Europe, and have a little more than 2 weeks of vacation (vs. Europeans who enjoy 5-6 weeks).
Democracy? 25% Elect Obama (similar To Other Elections)
According to John Locke, “the government is not legitimate unless it is carried on with the consent of the governed.” What constitutes such consent? What percent of the (voting-age) governed would constitute consent of the governed? Update: Record levels of turnout of 66.5% projected for presidential election of Biden vs. Trump. (Washington Post article). Turnout
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Enlightenment eliminates unnecessary suffering but not pain
“…to feel deeply and precisely with full awareness is what opens us to both joy and sorrow…you can’t dip your face to the stream and say, ‘I’ll only drink the hydrogen and not the oxygen.’…the life of feeling is no different. We cannot drink only of happiness or sorrow and have life remain life…Thus, to
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Deeper than Hope, the Importance of Following & Impermanence
Deeper than Hope: The power in the powerless, the importance of following, and authenticity I had a very interesting conversation with a surgeon from Spain, named Mario, who came to visit the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds. He introduced me to the video below. Perhaps we can imagine that this was a spontaneous
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Alternative to Boy Scouts
Our two boys were very excited to join the Cub/Boy Scouts. Because of their excitement and our desire as parents that they learn wilderness/outdoor/resilience skills, consistent with learning to thrive on one planet (see this brief post for the big picture of One Planet Thriving) that we urbanites couldn’t teach, we checked it out by
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Interview with Robert Griffin on Hummingbird & Tamera Communities
In consulting with Mandy and Ryan from withinreachmovie.com, they suggested we contact Robert Griffin as someone who had visited Tamera, a Peace Village in Portugal that seems like a very interesting model for community living. They also recommended Robert as someone who is easy to talk to, accessible, and who has some pretty deep and
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Unrealistic Optimism: The Woman with the Angel-Demon Tattoo
It doesn’t matter whether we view a glass as half-full or half-empty unless that view affects the risks we take in our behavior. If we collapse in despair because we are too half-empty, that is not helpful. If we are an overjoyed bull in a china shop because we are too half-full, that is also not helpful. The point isn’t whether the glass is half-empty or half-full but whether this amount of water is enough for the purpose at hand.
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