INTEGRITY OF LIFE

Disease is not abnormal. The pandemic is not abnormal. The conditions of life right now are normal and have been since the pre-Cambrian era.

On the increasing similarities between fourth-century Rome and the United States in 2020.

What happens to a country that is divided the way we are?

Sometimes there is no happy ending.

Ideas for sustainable living, from simple and inexpensive to life-changing, from things we can do now to things to plan for the future.

We’re not any good at threat assessment. Familiar dangers are ignored, while the most remote ones seem the most fearsome.

Convenience is killing community, and late-stage capitalism is delighted.

Which way will our enslavement to computers go in the next few years?

Are we wasting our human resources by trying to keep them safe?

Who is right? Will staying at home or going back to work result in more people dying? We don’t know.

Ultimately nature will achieve the balance that it is always aiming for – with us or without us.

Don’t be discouraged if you don’t know how you can make change happen. There is still great work for you to do.

What concerns me today is who we’ll choose to be, once this has settled down and the prospect for a new normal seems possible.

Solidarity and suggestions.

A review of a book that challenges our assumptions about human and nonhuman nature.

If water systems collapse, or if we decide to simplify voluntarily, we may be surprised at the lifestyle changes that await us.

Offer one change to our current economic system that would be an imaginative solution to a pressing issue. Unfettered thinking required.

What is it about attempts at justice and peace, like Rojava’s, that infuriate the rest of the world?

Concerning the difficulties of making changes in a society that is not yet ready to change.

Guest author Steven Gorelick considers home energy use.