Degrowth is Not Enough
Last Thursday, I walked to our local community centre and watched the film Outgrow the System. Afterwards, the director joined us for a discussion while our local nature conservation group … Read more
Belonging is the Cause and Key
I get depressed when I go out into nature.The forest is no longer a forest but a spruce plantation. I feel sad when I hear the fluttering of the common … Read more
Are You Hopeful, Hopeless or Hopefree?
How do you handle hope in the face of climate change and all our other planetary challenges? Success and Destruction During my 50 years in the environmental movement, I’ve gone … Read more
Nature, Planet and Our Sense of Self
Looking Back on Nature One perspective is that nature is a habitat we humans left thousands of years ago. We have evolved and become the dominant species on this planet. … Read more
Monumental Buildings and Trees – At what do they point?
What draws us to spend time in and admire monumental buildings? What do they point to, make us feel and connect to? And what about forests? On my journey through … Read more
Can you Forgive all Humans for Everything?
I’ve been part of the environmental movement since the 1970s, and I know how to blame the bad guys and how good it feels to fight what is wrong. I … Read more
Is Love a Property of our Wider Embraces, or is it Us Loving?
When I rest in an Embrace, I feel loved and cared for unconditionally. My understanding is that the feeling of being loved and cared for comes from me; it’s my … Read more
Dancing with Expansion, Exploitation and Increasing Complexity
It’s easy to think that we, modern humans, invented expansion in all directions, exploiting all available resources and increasing complexity in absurdum. We didn’t. These three forces gave birth to … Read more
The Fuzzy Embrace of the Human Culture
We dived deep into the Embrace of the Human Culture during our three-hour gathering last Saturday. This Embrace has always been the most troubling one in so many ways. The … Read more
Who Put all the Oil and Coal Here?
We were asked to feel into how we humans treat the planet and our emotions around this. I went with our burning of coal and oil, and to my surprise, … Read more
Are you a Nature-person or a Human-person?
On what side of the divide between nature and culture do you live? Or are you one of the few who are living wholeheartedly in the Biosphere? The biosphere that … Read more
2nd Wave Future
In August 2018, I had an extraordinary experience that I’ve hesitated to share because I don’t want to be seen as crazy, nor as hopeless and pessimistic.But the more I’ve … Read more
The Irrepressible Life Force
We all love the gifts of growth and development: Who wants to limit any of this for oneself?Or tell someone else to restrict their life?Or tell the poor not to … Read more