A system that cannot deliver the wellbeing of people and nature is in deep trouble. It invites ideas and actions that are transformative. James Gustav Speth, The Bridge at the End of the World: Capitalism, the Environment and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability[i]
IN AN ARTICLE in The London Review of Books from September 2017,... Read more
IT WOULD BE hard to hear a louder warning bell than the 2018 special report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels. The report delivers the stark message that global warming is likely to reach 1.5 degrees by around 2030 if emissions... Read more
you escape from home during a real estate inspection,
a table outside chedo’s special: croatian spit roast.
focused on perfection, you adjust chedo’s doormats,
move the sea-blue dog bowl one-half centimetre to the right.
a white cab glides to a stop
a woman in slippers and a belted coat steps out
more skim, flat and white than your coffee –
no longer hot,... Read more
I WANT TO take you on a journey from the planet to the parish, from the global to the local, from the Earth in space to the earth beneath our feet, from the lonely glowing speck of dust at the edge of the galaxy to the soil that we kneel upon and sift through our... Read more
