Coffee With Doc: Revolutionary Philosophy (Video 6 minutes) Constant Disruption: Continuous Adaptation Big environmental problems from every direction are hemming in high consumption economies and societies. We tend to nod in agreement before going on with the activities that consume our lives: messages to answer and mortgages to pay. But the flip side of economic […]
Lawn as Sanctuary (Video 5 minutes). Growing Grass. A century ago, John Maynard Keynes and other economic notables predicted that mechanical automation would soon let us all have a lot more free time. It hasn’t worked out that way. What happened? Grass is a good illustration. Centuries ago only the richest of royalty could afford […]
Coffee With Doc: Glocalization (Video 3.75 minutes). “Glocalization” is a hybrid word: global + local; implying global awareness and learning, but action at a local level. This term is uncommon, but not new. It describes many movements quietly trying to make a difference in world ecology by transforming what they do, where they are. One […]
Coffee With Doc: EDUCE. Educe: Education that Learns By Jack Ring Whether children or adults, most of us love to learn; we don’t like to be taught – told by an authority. Great “teachers” know this. They guide each learner’s self-discovery. Anything you discover may be old knowledge, but when you see it […]
Twenty-five years ago, I tried to coach adult college students to seek and solve problems using the classic Deming PDCA Circle. In classrooms, students were unused to identifying their own problems rather than having them pre-defined. The first time through this exercise, over half did not reflect on a problem to seek root cause. Instead, […]
Coffee With Doc: Propping Up The Sky Even before 2008, queasy economic forecasters projected financial meltdown of a global economy propped up by debt. Believers in unending growth accused any pessimistic prognosticator of being a Chicken Little warning that the sky is falling. The Shakiness of Debt-Fueled Growth To prime economic growth, central banks, including […]
