Two days ago I received my copy of “The Climate Book”, created by world-renowned climate activist Greta Thunberg. This book should be on everyone’s reading list, nightstand, desk, and bookshelf, preferably well-thumbed and post-it note filled as mine has become in the past 48 hours. Greta invited 100 of the…

After 8 books published, hundreds of articles written, and 48 stories published here on Medium outlining pathways to a thriveable future, I’ve got to a point where I now have as many questions as I have answers to our personal and global predicament. The number one, primordial question none of…

This article is Part 2 of a 4-part series that provides an overview of what I’ve synthesized in 40 articles and 8 books about living a Game B life in a Game A world — and how to make the transition to a regenerative, inclusive, collaborative, multicapital Game B world…

There is much wisdom that is badly out of date and no longer useful in our first human-induced planetary crisis. There is also much intelligence that is not very wise in our current life conditions. The key is to be discerning enough to know the difference. How can we reperceive…

Aeons ago, when I was a young investment banker (think early 1980s, without the red braces), an Italian colleague gave a presentation on Zen. In his inimitable Italian accent, Tizziano said: “Zen eez nusssing”. I discovered meditation and mantras at university when TM (Transcendental Meditation) was just getting going in…

COP27- here we go again….it is now 30 years since the first Rio conference that set out to bring the leaders of the world together to tackle climate change, or global overheating, and the sixth mass extinction as I prefer to call it. With homo sapiens directly in the firing…

In part one of this inquiry into the kinds of thinking that will help us survive and thrive now and in the future, we asked the question: What kind of thinking is needed in a complex and uncertain world? We discovered how to avoid the five thinking traps, by developing…

The vast majority of earth’s inhabitants now acknowledge that they have to do something about the six interconnected, escalating crises showing up in our lives on a daily basis. What’s missing is the means by which our growing awareness can be transformed into effective strategies to survive and thrive. This…

I ended Part One of this article a few days ago with the following question: So, for me, the fundamental question is how to make beneficial social and organizational emergence and synergy happen more often than the supervening forces that push us backward. As noted in Part One, Supervenience sucks…