This post is for the UN’s OWG 5 proceedings next week, on Post2015 Macro Economic development positions. It led to the OWG 8 proposal “A World SDG“, introducing an integrated true scientific measure of sustainability… It’s now followed with “The Decoupling Puzzle – a partial answer” , on measuring our “decoupling rate”, and the development space reserved within planetary boundaries, such … Continue reading Nature’s Capitalism: “Homemaking” now, not competition over shrinking pies!→
I’ve been having a very exciting time discovering and building on the many connections between my scientific method for studying the development and organization of Natural Systems, and the wonderfully radical scientific feminism of Pat Thompson’s “Hestian Home Economics” (1,2,3). They both center on what is at the heart of the liveliness of natural … Continue reading A Hestian Map – the sacred hearth not at home in an authoritarian world→
It’s both sad and marvelous to now be reading the clear signs that science has become so misguided that only a scientific revolution will keep it from destroying all of what science built. Science has indeed shown us the great beauty of nature and our lives, given us marvelous tools for self-expression, and then also … Continue reading Why did science become myopic and now unable to guide our future?→
A Plan to Change Plans Nature’s path for thriving new lives starts with a long burst of extractive growth, but then changes to become self-healing. Our economic growth started that way all growth processes do, but then we overdid it, a fatal pattern advanced human economies since the late Bronze Age, that has now become … Continue reading the Natural Growth Path→
ALERT – ambitious regeneration … faces rapid global decline! Lauren, I’ve been active in the movements for decades but have been unsuccessful in pointing out how we should address the symptoms AND the causes of rapid global sustainability decline. That has not been happening at all, though. While trying to heal the world, the UN, … Continue reading Note to RegenPollination→
Thinking about the global crisis, the people who feel it think so differently than those who don’t, and the solutions of the latter seem to be at the very root of the problem (problem A). We need solutions that would work in practice. That would take a real understanding of the problem and its origins. … Continue reading We have more than one problem→
Also part of the path of discovery of where our cultures came from and the foundation we still need to learn from: The apparent Bronze Age roles of Hestia and Hermes In terms of the ancient Greek history of our split consciousness marked by the emergence of modern science, between family order and societal order, … Continue reading Bronze Age roles of Hestia and Hermes→
It’s wonderful to have so much movement in the movement now, the passion and connections making such awakening waves around facing our global crisis of growing crises. Capitalism isn’t amenable to the kinds of change mostly offered, moral suasion, that I hear voiced by the great host of determined voices rising in response. The people … Continue reading Behavioral ironies for our moral values→
The radical separation of humans from nature, our being so self-absorbed and seeing nature as defined in our heads rather than the other way around, has been a deep mystery for a long time. My interest in it came from noticing how mathematics became our standard for representing nature but cannot describe or help us … Continue reading Betrayed by the power of our minds→
The imbalance of information about the costs and rewards of money; the intensely felt rewards and zero information on the environmental costs, has fooled humanity for ages. Even in our effort to stop climate change today, we aim to pay for reorganizing all our energy uses to continue the compound growth of using them that … Continue reading How we can know for sure→
New systems science, how to care for natural uncontrolled systems in context
