“People are the biggest adventure of all, and hitchhiking makes you need people, react with people and hopefully appreciate people. Coping with the difficulties forces you to depend on yourself, and grow in self-appreciation,...
Author: Douglas Craig
“As households adopt rooftop solar, they transform generation and its ownership, shifting away from utility monopolies and making power production their own.” Paul Hawken, Drawdown “As far as the future is concerned, it is...
“And it ain’t no use in a-turnin’ on your light, babe The light I never knowed An’ it ain’t no use in turnin’ on your light, babe I’m on the dark side of the...
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” – Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land Love Teresa was young, barely five-years-old, but confident like she...
As I implied in my last piece, our passive, sluggish response to the climate crisis is in fact the natural result of evolution. Or the lack thereof. The brain of the human animal is simply not equipped to handle the reality that homo sapiens (Latin for “wise man”) has become an immense, powerful, Earth-altering, geologic force.
“We basically have three choices: mitigation, adaptation and suffering. We’re going to do some of each. The question is what the mix is going to be. The more mitigation we do, the less adaptation...
Back in February 2014, I published a piece here at ANC about how I first learned about the famed clinical psychologist and researcher, Dr. Steven C. Hayes, a Professor in the Department of Psychology...
“The meek may eventually inherit the Earth but first we need the geeks to save it for them.” -Me “And I suggest…that your spirit grow in curiosity, that your life be richer than it...
For many people in the world, their religious or spiritual faith is a central or defining aspect of their identity and informs their relationship with the physical world. One definition of religion is “respect...
“The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.” -Mahatma Gandhi Edward Davey has led an interesting life so far. He has...
