I was born in 1956, a year after Victor Lebow proclaimed the gospel of consumption. Our enormously productive economy demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satisfaction, our ego satisfaction, in consumption.… We need things consumed, burned … Continue reading From consumers to citizens
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Systems Change for a cooler climate
In the image above Otto Scharmer distills the essence of systems change. Here is the video where the image comes from. He starts talking about systems thinking at about 17.40 (the wole video is a good watch). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPOVCSn9pdU A key point is to step into a future that wants to emerge, our institutions have to … Continue reading Systems Change for a cooler climate