I was struck the other day by a perceived pivot in my mental model vis-a-vis my positioning to the world. Growing up during teenage and college years, I was heavily influenced by Laurel Canyon music. No better song captures the optimism within the class / social / cultural struggle of their times than Graham Nash’s…
One of my favorite places for data, Statista.com, just published a piece on the growth of plastic waste. Their projections are scarier than historical. How did we get here? You will find more infographics at Statista What does it look like going forward? In just two decades, the global annual production of plastic waste has…
A random (I really don’t know how I was on this list) publication arrived in my inbox this morning from a publication called Barn Raiser. Here’s their tag-line: “Your independent source for rural and small town news”. The article that caught me was from a multi-generation farmer from Montana, and how corporate oligarchies and government…
In my recent post on selfies and their destructive power, I called it an existential threat. I seriously intended it to be bi-directional threat – to humans and to nature (trees especially coming from the redwoods). A photographer publication, Photography, published an article last week focusing on Banff National Park (CA) and the threat to…
My recent experiences in the Redwoods further pushed some thinking from readings and observations about the existential threat of today’s humans seemingly irrational drive to attract attention to themselves. The “Look at me!” drive I am starting to name it. This human drive seems in today’s modern cultural mix as strong as that of hunger,…
