He’s Just Had Coffee

Years ago, I listened to a radio interview with some of the guys who created the professional surfing circuit. One interview in particular stuck with me. I have no idea what the guy’s name was, but he said something along the lines of: The thing is, we all understood that we’d managed something pretty […]

From WorldChanging: Ecolizer Designwijzer’ is a simple tool for designers and product managers. It’s a set of cards bound like a Pantone color guide which let you use eco-indicators to analyze and compare environmental impacts of commonly used materials and processes. Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) for the people, and in a matter of minutes […]

In a long, thoughtful article, Kevin Kelly argues that there is little evidence that societies can “leapfrog” in the sense that most eco-development folk mean it: […] the billions of people in the world currently living with little advance technology can skip the industrial generation of technology and zoom immediately to the good stuff. […]

If all things go according to plan, I’m heading to Denver in late June for this. I’m likely to also make stops in Portland and Seattle (probably afterwards). If you’ll be in one of those cities and you’d like to catch up over food, coffee or beer (or hell, even a walk in the park), […]

You know, some mornings you get up, wash your face, drink some water, stretch the kinks out and sit down on the cushion (in my case a zafu, though not because of any particular commitment to zazen) and begin to let Mind go…. … and I find myself lost in a maze of thinking, then I […]