Video Conversation on Symbiotic Thinking (13 minutes) You are invited to our Compression Thinking Series Podcast Follow Up Teleconference #4 On Symbiotic Thinking This is fourth in a series of 12 podcasts followed by teleconferences asking how each podcast topic might relate to your problems. One is held every Tuesday evening at 8 pm Eastern […]
What Will It Take for Us to Become Serious? The split between believers in economic development and those pressing for environmental preservation is poised to become the dominant rift in American society. Along with that is the difficulty of translating big picture issues into local action, here and now. Yesterday, on line at home after […]
Most lawns reduce biodiversity.The video is over two years old, but it touches on a subject that popped up in science news three times this past week, here, here, and here. Scientists fear that we are losing insects at a rapid rate, and if they go, with them goes much other plant and animal life. Why […]
Much public discourse, if you can call it that, revolves around keeping economic expansion going, assuming that no alternative exists. Economists refer to the opposite of expansion as contraction, presuming that it’s a temporary blip in inevitable expansion. All their nostrums propose to revive expansion. By contrast, “Compression” proposes living with less, presuming that we have put Planet Earth […]
Most of us like complex matters to be reduced to something that we can readily understand, using analogies that we can relate to. A molecule with its atoms can be represented by little balls that you can see, a false representation, but from it you can visualize a picture of something you can’t see, so […]
