A Dear Son’s Rites of Passage
Dear Emery, You will turn 13 in three days. I am writing this letter a few days beforehand, in the early hours, while the house is still asleep. “Here comes the big guy.” You know the context of the...
View ArticleA Just Transition for All: A Q&A with J. Mijin Cha
By Chris Mills Rodrigo Any realistic solution to our climate crisis demands a dramatic move away from fossil fuels to less greenhouse gas-intensive energy sources. A transition of this scale would...
View ArticleTrade-Offs of the Green Transition: Is Mining Critical Minerals Better Than...
By Katarina Zimmer, Grist “This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here.” As renewable energy gathers steam around the world, the harms of mining its...
View ArticleIs the EV Transition Net Positive for the Economy?
By Isabel Eddy Dear EarthTalk: Is transitioning to more electric vehicles (EVs) good or bad for the economy overall? —Richard T., Boise, ID According to the S&P Global Motility Forecast, EV sales...
View ArticleNative Americans Show the Way on Green Economy Transition
By Pravit Kochar Dear EarthTalk: What are Native American tribes doing to transition to a green economy? —T.K., via e-mail Native American tribes are increasingly playing a critical role in promoting...
View ArticleLate Summer Blues
Facing Change As It Happens We have a plan, my therapist and I. The idea is to go toward it all, and not away. To face it, embrace it, instead of retreating. You see, it’s this time of year, I shared...
View ArticlePlanning for Degrowth
There was an article in Nature from late 2022 on degrowth that got some sudden attention over the holidays because economists and tech bros noticed it and turned out on social media to do some hating....
View ArticleHealth Services Fail Adults With Cerebral Palsy: Research Shows What Must Change
By Manjula Manikandan Healthcare services are failing adults with cerebral palsy – and this needs to change. To understand what’s going wrong and what needs to happen, our research team has brought...
View ArticleA New Way to See Ourselves and Our Culture: Fall, and a New School Year, a...
How do we meet a new season? How do we get our children or ourselves ready for a new school year, or for any moment? Especially this moment. Our world today faces so many threats. It’s changing at a...
View ArticleOvercome Life’s Biggest Challenges Rather Than Being Overcome By Them – Greg...
When you are suddenly faced with a challenge you don’t know how to overcome it’s easy to go into overwhelm, or be overtaken by fear or grief. Show notes There are moments in life when challenges...
View ArticleA Comprehensive Guide to Talking to Kids About Death
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome. Isaac Asimov, in Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain Parenthood is all about transitions. And the thing is, most of...
View ArticleChanging How Businesses Think About Transition
I wrote last week, in my account of David Bent’s talk on business transition, that resolving the conflict within businesses between the short-run assumptions of finance and the long-run requirements of...
View Article“I Want To Be There.” Iowa Mom Accompanies Daughter to Thailand for...
. . When Daye initially came out as a woman of trans experience to her family, she was met with only tacit acceptance, and a sense that her family wasn’t as supportive as she was hoping they would...
View ArticleMoving From Desire to Action
I’ve been noticing lately how much of our lives is spent wanting to do something, wishing we could do something … but struggling to move into action. What’s the struggle to make this transition all...
View ArticleGetting Out of My Professional Comfort Zone
For the past decade and almost half of my adult life, I’ve worked at the same company. It’s mind-boggling because the first half of my adult life was spent as a serial job-hopper. I got a job at a...
View Article11 Genders As Described by Medical Doctors
Another in my discussion series. I hope maybe you can use these in your support group, church group, work DEI discussion group, classroom, etc. Today’s discussion comes from an article that was...
View ArticleAuto Pilot or Intentional–Which One Are You?
Let me tell you something about your life right now. There are many areas of your life that you have put on autopilot. They might include many areas of your work. It definitely includes driving or...
View ArticleExponential Finance: Our Children Won’t Know a Bank Teller from a Chimney Sweep
— By Jason Dorrier We’re in New York this week to bring you coverage of Singularity University and CNBC’s Exponential Finance summits. Bitcoin, blockchain, mobile banking, peer-to-peer lending, AI...
View ArticleWhat Personal and Collective Change Is Needed for a Successful Commons...
— On March 22-23, Michel Bauwens was invited to a lecture co-organized by the German section of the SMart cooperative, which organizes freelance workers for mutual solidarity, and by Supermarkt, one of...
View ArticleInnovation Lessons from ‘The Artist’
Have you seen The Artist? It won the best film award at the 2012 Oscars. It is a charming tale about the transition from silent movies to talkies. It is remarkable for a number of reasons – not least...
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