INTEGRITY OF LIFE

What concerns me today is who we’ll choose to be, once this has settled down and the prospect for a new normal seems possible.

Solidarity and suggestions.

To encourage alternate ways to approach ourselves and the world, this week I offer two poems rather than an essay.

A review of a book that challenges our assumptions about human and nonhuman nature.

Why is anxiety disorder more common in wealthy countries than in disadvantaged ones?

If water systems collapse, or if we decide to simplify voluntarily, we may be surprised at the lifestyle changes that await us.

Offer one change to our current economic system that would be an imaginative solution to a pressing issue. Unfettered thinking required.

Concerning the delights of gardening.

Applying the concepts of sustainability, balance, stability, and maturity in all aspects of life.

What habits of mind prevent us from acting in the face of future climate change disasters?

Collapse can’t happen soon enough, as far as I’m concerned.

The point about education is that you put money in and get education out, not that you get rich.

While we must teach literacy and aim for fluency, we must also do a lot more reading aloud and story-telling than we currently do.

A human-shaped education begins with children and the world they occupy, then moves to a drastic rethinking of of everything that is taught.

Let's imagine a school schedule that exists for the benefit of the children, not the convenience of adults.

In order to be educated, students don’t need to be run through a factory. They need an education that reflects what it means to be human.

Is the universal public . . . experience . . . we foist on our children actually education, and is it any good?

How does education need to change? Diagnose current problems, imagine reforms, and describe the system that best fits a human-shaped life.

As we descend from the peak of the industrial age, we can expect to see more of our survival dependent on "impractical," low-tech skills.

What is it about attempts at justice and peace, like Rojava’s, that infuriate the rest of the world?