December 22, 2008 – 8:49 pm
Commerce and trade are some of the most basic and ancient human activities. This is a theme that has run through a number of my BlogTalkRadio conversations, particularly with Marsha Shenk and Jahn Ballard. I spoke with Jahn last week on the show, in a segment entitled Lean and Green Transformation. Jahn is a truly [...]
December 2, 2008 – 7:02 pm
Last night I read a fascinating article in What is Enlightenment? Magazine (www.wie.org) by Howard Bloom subtitled “Descartes’ Delusion”. The delusion was that René Descartes settled himself into a house in Amsterdam, back in 1636, and decided he’d sit there, more or less by himself, until he penetrated the bedrock of reality, ie “What is [...]
November 6, 2008 – 2:16 am
On the morning after an historic election, what if President-Elect Obama were to call and ask: “OK, I got elected, now what?”
In today’s BlogTalkRadio Show with Dr. Don Beck – bio-psycho-social mapmaker and activist – we explored that question.
In Dr. Beck’s view, our greatest need is a remedy for the polarization in our society. We’ve [...]
October 24, 2008 – 4:01 pm
A record combination of multisyllabic words, but a very interesting conversation I had with my friend Marsha Shenk yesterday on my BlogTalkRadio Show. Marsha refers to herself as a “Business Anthropologist”. That’s just a taste of Marsha’s style - provocative questions are the core of her consulting practice, and the way she lives her life. [...]
October 15, 2008 – 6:38 pm
Check out my latest BlogTalkRadio interview with Dick Wagner. We spent an hour talking about the nature of wealth, our money system, and how all of these impact both social and environmental sustainability. Here are some highlights.
Dick has been a thought leader in the financial planning world for twenty-five years, including a stint as President [...]
October 9, 2008 – 6:50 pm
I’ve now recorded two interviews with very interesting friends on Blog Talk Radio. This is the beginning of a series of conversations with provocative thinkers, business leaders, activists and educators on Sustainable Leadership. We explore the idea that sustainability requires a deep personal and cultural shift in the ways we see, think, act and do [...]
September 17, 2008 – 5:24 pm
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, [...]
September 9, 2008 – 11:42 pm
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, [...]