Kool-aid
1978: Jonestown, Guyana. Over 900 people died, including 87 young children, when they drank Kool-aid laced with cyanide and other drugs upon the advice of […]
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What do We Want to be When We Grow Up?
We don’t have a technology problem, we have a people problem (John Boecker, 2018). By that I mean the people working within the existing systems […]
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We Need to Close the Loop
I picked up new recycling bins a few days ago, as our bins have been totally mangled and broken by the pick-ups. Not to blame […]
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Perfection or Progress?
I grew up with “practice makes perfect”. My son came home from middle school with “practice makes progress”. I find this changed rendition much, much […]
Continue reading »Politics and Perceptions
It happened a few weeks ago that I tuned into the radio after the start of a report on education. I found myself agreeing with […]
Continue reading »Integrative Process 1: Opportunity
I am preparing to speak this coming week at a Youth Climate Summit where the theme is “Make it Happen”. I started thinking about climate […]
Continue reading »Language on the Move: political review
I was listening to the radio as I drove a ridiculous distance to a brief site meeting the other day. The reporter was talking about […]
Continue reading »20/20 Foresight
Our sustainable future will be guaranteed not by personal actions or government mandates or corporate revelations that green business is healthier for the bottom line…but […]
Continue reading »Choose “Compost” over a Silver Bullet
“There is no silver bullet, but educating girls is like silver buckshot.” What does this mean? It tries to communicate that we can be much […]
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Guilty and Greening
A few years ago, at an inter-agency committee meeting to work on greening state agencies, one of the prominent leaders associated with the work introduced […]
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