Tag: community development
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Question: How do I change . . .? (Part 2 of 3)
Question: “How do I interrupt my pattern of saying “Be careful” to my son all the time? I am aware I’m saying it an awful lot” (Part 2 of 3). So, is “Be careful” appropriate? Yes, with limitations. the child needs to know that an action has potential consequences, many of which may be…
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Question: How do I change . . .? (Part 1 of 3)
Question: “How do I interrupt my pattern of saying “Be careful” to my son all the time? I am aware I’m saying it an awful lot.” As usual, I suspect that my answer will be useful to many, so I’m addressing it as part of my general postings. Again, I am splitting my answer over…
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Energy Production and Storage
Two important posts summarize for me that we are moving towards much more efficient energy utilization: David Suzuki’s summary of feed-in tariffs, which make small scale, local production both feasible and cost-effective, and ThinkProgress’s summary on lithium-ion battery technology, somewhat speculative but still very likely to develop, making energy storage much cheaper and feasible. Both…
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Welcome #2
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 how to proceed. However, I have remained deeply concerned about the issues of climate change,…
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Another Way, Needing Integration
In the past few weeks, I have been traveling through beautiful country (New Mexico, Arizona, Grand Canyon, and Utah, amongst other areas), with stunning views. With such vistas, it is easy for me to connect to a sense of grandeur and mystery, of questioning as to how did this world became so beautiful, of what…
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A Vision of A Mature Culture
As I explore the issues of our culture, I start with Vision because it is essential to our being. As the Cheshire Cat said to Alice: “If you don’t know where you are going, any road will do.” Vision is what motivates us: we want to move towards it. (We want to move away from…
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The Power of Visioning
Vision is like a good novel — it is a fiction that motivates. From Murakami on Gaza (thanks to John Hanagan on Facebook). Haruki Murakami accepted the Jerusalem Prize for Literature in 2009. This is from his acceptance speech. “Between a high, solid wall and an egg that breaks against it, I will always stand on…
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Welcome
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 Point: New Hope for the Climate(Rolling Stones, 2014 June 14), and Charles Eisenstein’s…
Awakening From Your Anger 