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Smart Strategies for Living in a Planetary Crisis
Announcing a pair of classes on learning how to thrive in an all-encompassing discontinuity.
Mar 28
How to keep up.
Listen now (31 min) | The widespread discontinuities around us are transforming what "staying informed" means.
Mar 25
Foresight and strategy in upheaval
Listen now (21 min) | Conflict is not the boundary of possibility but the window into opportunity
Apr 18
Speed is Everything
Listen now | Why learning to think about action unfolding at a faster tempo is key to understanding the the new outlines of the possible.
Mar 17
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Discontinuity is the Job
Ruggedize Your Life.
We’re not yet ready for what’s already happened
We all live in California, now.
The Transapocalyptic Now
When **it Gets Real
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Shaping Conflicts
Listen now (34 min) | How fast action and concentrated disruption may be the keys to bringing people together to face the planetary crisis.
Mar 15
Discontinuities, Ruggedization and Transapocalyptic Truths
Listen now (37 min) | Keeping an eye on the big picture, with some help from the IPCC
Mar 1
What We Talk About When We Talk About Action
Listen now (15 min) | Why discontinuity means acting to limit the planetary crisis is no longer the center of human engagement with that crisis.
Feb 7
Involuntary Devolution
Listen now | The political fallout from the end of The Orderly Transition will hit close to home.
Jan 27
We all live in California, now.
Discontinuity is blowing up, all around us, now, everywhere — and the biggest changes are still incoming.
Jan 11
The Year Ahead
Listen now (28 min) | Why the end of consensus on the Orderly Transition is going to magnify conflict in climate and sustainability debates.
Jan 2
Learn smart strategies for personal ruggedization.
An online class this Thursday, about how to make good choices in the face of a planetary crisis.
Dec 13, 2021
Smart strategies for living in a planetary crisis
A class next Thursday (and recorded).
Dec 9, 2021
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Discontinuity is the Job
Ruggedize Your Life.
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We all live in California, now.
The Transapocalyptic Now
When **it Gets Real
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