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Ah, Schumacher College. There's a name to conjure with... For so many of us, it summons magical memories of truly life-changing times. To this day, I remember the tingling surge of energy in my body during the fortnight of the "Life After Oil" course I took there in 2006 — as one attendee put it, I had the air about me of a man in an oasis, after wandering a desert for years. And with good... -
Last month the wonderful Kim Hare invited me to be the keynote speaker at a reunion for attendees of her freely-offered The Edge Retreat, which doubled as the launch for her book At The Edge. I decided to offer a 20 minute whistle-stop tour of my life so far: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY0-qhPd-1I Before opening the conversation on the theme of ‘Transforming Our Relationship with the Future’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mRJbLDiH4M It felt a potent event — and gave rise to an enjoyable impromptu evening...
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A few months back, amidst the stimulating ferment of The Deeper Dive, I literally woke one morning with the short analogy below in my head. Prompted, without doubt, by my frustrations with the burgeoning popular debate on whether there’s “still time” to avoid the worst effects of destabilising our very climate. I'm glad the climate scientists are doing their specialised work — who knows what useful insights they might unexpectedly turn up — but honestly,...
[…] Foster’s brilliant Rap News makes it onto Dark Optimism for the second time, with a comment on recent events featuring the likes of Hugo Chavez, Glenn Beck, Bono (“Tell […]