• My experience is that anyone coming to a new blog, especially one that has be available for more than 20-30 posts, will need time to get a sense of the blog. This page is meant to give you the new reader some

  • I’ve been ill for the past week, still somewhat frail — it has given me an opportunity to think about what I really want, and why I am writing this blog. Succinctly, I believe that as a species we are on a

  • In one sense, this post is a digression on my current theme of visioning a mature society. But it also gets to the heart of the matter of how we are to get to this vision. For me, anger is the canary

  • Hi. I am re-evaluating how I use this blog, and have decided to resume it in a variety of ways. I stopped posting (in every way) about two years ago, largely because I did not have a focus in my life as to

  • In the past two days, I have received two key emails. Both seem vitally important to me in the resolution of global warming. If you are not able to access them, I’ll be happy to forward my copies. Al Gore’s The Turning