In line with my previous post, a key thing I think we need to all get better at is civic engagement. And, as discussed at length in the news media and elsewhere, one of the big challenges to effective civic engagement is dis/misinformation. …

Like others, I’m both shocked and, sadly and simultaneously, not at all surprised by the events that occurred on January 6, 2021. I call the date out with intention as I think this should be a day we all remember, just like how we remember 9/11/2001. This is my understanding…

I recently finished listening to a fantastic podcast miniseries the other day called Timber Wars. It is about the battle between environmentalists and mill town/timber industry communities in the Pacific Northwest. It starts with a discussion on the evolving science and, by extension, the perceptions of forests. For some time…

In a previous post, I wrote a way of thinking about the story of humans in a non-human-centric way. I brought up this idea that humanity grew out of a series of emergent properties coming out of increasingly more complex systems built upon and interacting with other systems, including the…

In my previous post, I suggested that, if we want humanity and the current level of biodiversity to survive, we must become more than super-apex predators. If we don’t, then the natural checks on apex predators — famine, dehydration, disease, natural disaster, or self-destruction — will result in mass extinction…

My wife and I watched David Attenborough’s Witness Statement on Netflix the other night: David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet. If you’ve ever watched a BBC Nature documentary (e.g., Planet Earth, Blue Planet, Planet Earth 2) then you’ve heard David Attenborough. He is that calming voice with a British…

The bible has been and continues to be one of the best-selling and most-read books of all-time. It is a book that more than a billion people (and arguably more) look to for comfort, advice, and stewardship. …

We need a new origin story. Our current human-centered narrative, with it’s missive to resculpt the world solely for human benefit, is failing. The Earth itself is under siege by us. The governments and institutions that were built to ennoble and enrich our population are buckling under their own weight…

The stories we tell about where we come from define who we are, what we do, where we are going, and why. …