What question should I ask you next? Given everything you’re actively building — Possible Planet, the Genesee–Finger Lakes bioregional intelligence work, NJ C-PACE strategy, your book, and now your personal health focus — the most valuable next question is one that either: Removes friction (simplifies your life or operations), or Creates leverage (moves a major initiative forward with one decision… Read more →
Category: AI
Reversing the Extractive Logic: Emerging Pathways to a Regenerative Economy
In the heart of British Columbia, the Kwax̧a̧la community has begun to chart a new course for economic development rooted in Indigenous knowledge, ecological stewardship, and shared prosperity. It is part of a growing wave of initiatives across the globe seeking to invert the destructive logic of extractive capitalism and restore the foundations of life: thriving ecosystems, strong communities, and… Read more →
Living into Balance, expanded
Listening for the Life Force We live in a time of undeniable peril. Every day the news brings fresh evidence of overshoot: aquifers running dry, forests burning, species vanishing. We know, if we are honest, that humanity is consuming and destroying far more than Earth can replenish. We are eating into the seed corn of the future. And yet, within… Read more →
Understanding Overshoot and Collapse
A recent Substack article by an unnamed author (“ItsOvershoot”) has exhaustively detailed the evidence for Understanding Our Collapsing World. Abrupt climate change. The sixth mass extinction. Collapsing Forests. Dead soil. Dry rivers. Acidic oceans. Coral reefs bleaching. Insects vanishing. Plastic in the air. Microfibers in your lungs. Nanoplastics in your blood. In your brain. In birds. In fish. In babies.… Read more →
AI Review of “Global 4C: World Monetary Union for Climate Change Mitigation”
From Academia.edu (AI source unspecified): In the following review, I aim to provide a detailed evaluation of the work titled “Global 4C: World Monetary Union for Climate Change Mitigation,” authored by Delton B. Chen, Jonathan Cloud, and Joel van der Beek. This paper was an attempt to address the monumental challenge of climate change through an innovative economic and monetary… Read more →
The Ultimate Mystery
Of course, none of this addresses the ultimate mystery of Existence. Why are things the way they are? It’s of no help to say that God made them that way. Why did He (or She) make them that way? (Incidentally, isn’t it blasphemous to claim we know what God was thinking?) We need to keep asking this question, not only… Read more →
Bioregionalism (Revised June 2025)
Bioregionalism: Reclaiming Our Place on Earth Bioregionalism offers a transformative vision for humanity, rooted in the understanding that our societies, economies, and cultures must align with the natural systems that sustain life. It is a movement centered on “living-in-place,” which means following the necessities and pleasures uniquely presented by a particular site and evolving ways to ensure its long-term occupancy.… Read more →
Aside: A Note on the Role of AI
Without artificial intelligence, this book would never have been written. While all the ideas are mine, elaborating and articulating all the arguments is now beyond my patience and endurance, so I invariably turn to AI to spell things out and elaborate the arguments. It rarely fails to surprise and delight me, even though I sometimes have to curb its worst… Read more →