The Art of Being Present & Alert
Reclaiming Awareness in a World of Distraction
Theme archive
Musings on Ecology and Planetary Life
Climate, ecology, regeneration, the living world, and the planetary conditions for human and non-human flourishing.
The Planet is Still Trying to Teach Us
There are moments when a handful of simple observations can dismantle an entire civilisation’s illusion of superiority.
The Weight of Witness
There’s a particular satisfaction in dispensing advice about other people’s sorrows.
What Holds Everything Together
Essential Tenets of a Civilisation Worth Inhabiting
From Parliamentary Theatre to Civic Wisdom
The Westminster Model's Terminal Decline
Choosing the Horizon
Navigators, Narratives, and the Fate of Worlds
Climate Change Policies
Deploying Eco-pragmatism to Frame Action
What Comes After Downsizing
The Positive Case for Contraction of the Species
The Bandwidth of Sorrow
On Exhaustion, Empire, and the Faint Light Still Coming Through
Using Capital Wisely
The changing nature of capital and its use
Industrial Economism – The Pathology & Its Cure
A Death Wish with a Business Plan
The Blind Strategist
Why Conventional Strategy Cannot See the World it Claims to Navigate
The Cost of an Unfiltered Woman
A friend of mine posted something on LinkedIn this morning that I could not put down.
What The Text Does Not Say
In defence of authenticity in authorship
Food: The Operating System Of A Dying World
I have spent much of my life staring at the dashboard of a civilisation that thinks it’s steering, while in reality its strapped to the front of a runaway helter-skelter, applauding its own acceleration.
United in Principle
The Lingering Death of an Empire on Paper
When the Law Becomes the Threat
Political Dishonesty Operating Legitimately
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