I am the closest thing to a prophet you’re going to get and believe me no one here is excited by the prospects. I know what you’re thinking. Matted hair. Crazy eyes. Looks more like a bum than a sage. Liable to go into a rant at the slightest provocation…

This is a call to action. We live in turbulent times and they are likely to get even bumpier. The combined pressures of climate chaos, social breakdown, and a post-peak-energy future mean there will be no “going back.” Science is telling us that we need to mobilize like we’ve never…

I’m seeing a lot of bruised and battered, dazed and confused folk wandering around out there, so I’m hoping this might provide a bit of relief for some of you. If my circle of friends or my own personal experience is any indication, a lot of us are starting to…

Learning to Live with Integrity — It’s not accidental that our mid-winter celebrations are marked by three related holidays — Solstice, Christmas, and New Years. They symbolically represent the arc of a near-death experience. Imagine our ancestors migrating north from our native African home where mid-winter and mid-summer have little impact on the cycles of life…

Welcome to Limbo I see you. I was there not that long ago, though it seems a foreign country now. Everything is unraveling and no one is noticing. The writing is on the wall. The house is on fire, and they are all sleepwalking through it. You scream as loud…

Singing the praises of Agnes Apocaloptimism: a belief that the end is near, but that’s not necessarily such a bad thing. I have a message to deliver that I don’t fully understand myself. It all started a few days ago when we had a visit from Agnes — not her real name. Most people around…

Nature parades her wisdom in front of us, if only we have eyes to see. Take the curious tale of the caterpillar that becomes a butterfly. We modern folk toss away the metaphor as something to do with a beautiful butterfly emerging from the cocoon that the ugly caterpillar entered…

Apocaloptimism: a belief that the end is near, but that’s not necessarily such a bad thing. #2 The Accidental Farmer It doesn’t feel the same looking back as it did looking forward. At the time, I remember the dread, the fear… that persistent gnawing feeling in the pit of my gut. There was this…

What does it mean to speak truth to power? This may be the most urgent question of our time. The majority of us see the writing on the wall. We recognize how dire the crisis is. We see how deeply interconnected the problems are and how quickly the cascade of…