In the face of all the catastrophe thinking and story-telling, why the optimism of thrivability?
photo credit: h.koppdelaney
This optimism is not blind idealism or the search for some dreamy utopia. A thrivable world will exist (and has existed) in a strange balance and tension where there is more health and generativity than illness and destruction. [...]
This evening I attended (with a brand new twitter friend) the MacArthur Foundation and Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago’s America’s Fiscal Future: Making Difficult Choices event.
Oh, I have lots of thoughts to share, but sharing them usually only gets half done… so I am shifting modes and sharing with you just a light dose of [...]
This morning I read a RT from @jhagel:
Open source trumps crowdsource – by @cdgramshttp://bit.ly/bIn1at
And an idea that has been bubbling in the back of my head came to the surface begging to be set free. Collaboration and Cooperation are complex processes. Setting up them as rivals diminishes the value each provide us. One is not [...]
Yesterday I was missing my friend @rachelannyes – so I looked at her twitter feed to see what she has been up to and get a sense of how she is doing. I found a lovely post:
@rachelannyes: What the world needs now is a Wonder Woman gang.
Absolutely.
So I hereby nominate for the Wonder Woman Gang [...]
I am pretty sure my entire life has been lived under the hovering cloud of the apocalypse. Sure there were moments of possibility – the fall of the wall, the election of Obama, the end of apartheid in South Africa. But mostly the global events we hear about focus on the end of civilization as we [...]
