The Security and Sustainability Guide: A Compass for the Anthropocene
This video discusses the Anthropocene, the Age of Humanity, a new geological era that began about 200 years ago. Most geological eras last for tens of thousands, if not millions of years. Unfortunately, the Age of Humanity is auditioning to be very short-lived. Humanity is in charge, but it’s evident that, much of the time, […]
Capitalism, Communitarianism, Contradictions and Cosmic Consciousness
Capitalism: A system that incentivizes productivity, transactional relationships, competition, efficiency, and consumption Communitarianism: A system that values traditions and relationships based on feelings, sometimes at the cost of candor Contradictions: Life is grayer than we’d like Cosmic Consciousness: An external reality and inner possibility A Young Capitalist In 1954. I made my first investment in […]
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 as possible to one recognizing that the preservation of the natural environment is a co-equal obligation. This report, which will be updated in 2022, provides an overview to over 100 […]
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 something about work that Anika Savage and I did in a field we entitled “anticipatory leadership”. The Security and Sustainability Guide’s mission is to provide decision-makers and activists with valid […]
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 in organizational settings. It studies and details the evolution of a 900-member community arts organization in which every member had the chartered right to participate as equals in all decision-making […]
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 we’re all about here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj_lW9s0Zu0 “Stress on Planetary boundaries drives polarization and conflict.” – Michael Sales, Seeing and Improving the Anthropocene
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 is also the founder of the Open Society Foundation to which he has contributed $34B. The Foundation is committed to supporting “inclusive democracies whose governments are accountable to their citizens.” […]
A Simple Twist of Fate
A multiplicity of alternative futures is wrapped up in every moment of the present. Strong trends create a sense of inevitability regarding the now. For example: Water occupies 70% of the Earth’s surface. The Earth revolves around the Sun. The Moon revolves around the Earth. The combined gravitational forces exerted by the Sun and Moon […]
What is Saving the World Worth to You?
A couple of days before England reported the highest temperatures in its recorded history (7/19/22), a New York Times/Siena poll delivered some very bad news to the Anthropocene: only 1% of the American population ranks climate change as the #1 problem facing America today. The climate’s 99-1 loss in the poll of public opinion stands […]
Welcome to the Anthropocene…
Here we are, citizens of the Anthropocene, trying to figure this all out. The big question, of course, is “will there be time”? Watch me in this brief intro then join me as I explore this and other questions as I report from the front lines…