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BEING AN ANTHROPOCEAN

It is said that you don’t know what you’re feeling until it has a name. Anthropocene is a word that defines our time. This is the Age of Humanity. Ours is an ever-increasingly anxious era. Plagues and calamities abound. Technologies of all sorts are advancing at an exponential rate.

Here’s the one I got at Camden Town

I saw Elvis the day before my twelfth bday in 1956. Talk about a life changing event! Back to My T-Shirts are Me!

Greening Capitalism, Quietly: Seven Types of Organizations Driving the “Necessary Revolution”

To survive, capitalism must shift its strategy as an economic system from one concentrating solely on returning the highest rate of return to its investors

A Talk in the Park

I gave a talk about the Security and Sustainability Guide at an Earth Day celebration in April. This clip starts mid-sentence. I had just said

Action Skills for Radical Democratic Organizations: A Learning Agenda for the Metroville Artists Org

This is my doctoral dissertation. It’s long, but its saving grace is that it probes and describes the interwoven nature of interpersonal and political dynamics

Let’s Talk About Guns

Columbine, Orlando, Sandy Hook, Parkland, Buffalo, Uvalde…where does it end? Will America’s “frontiersman” myth spread to other societies, especially those where democracy is in trouble?

Seeing And Improving The Anthropocene

This video – a recording of a presentation and discussion of the Anthropocene for Security and Sustainability Guide – provides a good primer on what

Will Evil Triumph in The Anthropocene?

Will he or won’t he? Like Putin, Trump is unadulterated evil. Not to his supporters, of course, but to anyone who’s paying attention to his

Numbers Too Big To Ignore

The continued assault on Women’s Rights leaves many questions… Sexual behavior, in general, and the sexual behavior of women, in particular, is and will be

Reflexivity

In addition to being a GOP boogie man and an anti-semitic dog whistle, George Soros, 92, is one of the world’s most successful investors. He

The Courage of Volodymyre Zelenskyy

Updated: Mar 16, 2023 The unlikely hero… Volodymyre Zelenskyy is a modern day David facing an brutal and amoral Goliath. He’s established a new standard for

Elvis, Orgasm and Social Change

The Security and Sustainability Guide, at present, describes the activities of over 3,000 organizations that are dedicated in one way or another to the development

You Don’t Own Me!

Leslie Gore’s megahit, “You Don’t Own Me,” has been viewed more than 60,000,000 times on YouTube. Here’s some of her advice many parents ought to