Eighty degree afternoons used to feel like a heat wave in Portland. We would retreat to inside spaces, hopefully air conditioned, only emerging when temperatures dropped by another ten degrees. Now it seems like just another summer day, and life goes on. Despite the heat, … read more.
There’s a strange kind of chaos loose in the world. Seemingly unrelated disasters are overlapping and amplifying each other all around us. We have so weakened or damaged our social, institutional, and ecological systems that they are simply not able to stabilize. The world we … read more.
Not happy with the future the soothsayers predict for us? Let’s dream the one we want into existence. What does it look like and how will we make it real?
Our ancestors had dreams of a new world where they could do more than survive. But their dream is a bit tattered now and it’s time for a new dream. What should it look like? How can we get there?
