Archive for February, 2009
My Own Memory of My Own Future
How do I forget things that happened in the past in order to remember things that are yet to come?
What do I know about my own future? What do I know about it that I’m forgetting?
I recently started a new life. Moved to a new town, am officially in the waiting pool to adopt [...]
A Green Future for a Blue Planet
“If the future of all human civilization depended on me…what would I do, how would I be?”
– Buckminster Fuller
There are some people who believe we may only have 10 years to affect the kind of change that will allow us to bypass the very worst effects of climate change. Robin Chase, the CEO of ZipCar, [...]
The Powers That Were and the Powers That Are Becoming
“When the clock strikes me,
the powers of being
will prevail
over the powers that be”
–spoken word artist Saul Williams
I was speaking with someone a few days after the inauguration, and when I mentioned my hopefulness of a more engaged and activated citizenry, he said sadly, he didn’t share my hope. He said the Powers that Be are [...]