Monthly Archives: September 2008

Optimism, Pessimism, Leadership

As I described in my last post, I have been challenged to see how I “hold the future” in my mind. My habit is to be a green-techno-optimist.

And, that could be completely wrong.

I’ve been through several apocalyptic mood swings ever since I read The Limits to Growth in the run-up to the first Earth Day, [...]

Transition, Localization, and – gulp – Energy Descent

I’ve always tended to be a fan of globalization – maybe as much in a spiritual sense as an economic one. As a high school student, I loved reading Teilhard de Chardin’s idea of the emerging “noosphere”, a growing field of global consciousness. I was a huge fan of Arthur C. Clarke’s book, Childhood’s End, [...]