Yeah, it felt great, Now what?

I think there's a useful way think about if, and more importantly how, all the good juju of the inauguration and ascendancy to leadership of a good man can actually fuel the changes e;re craving. This column lays out the basic framework. More to come.

"Sustainability?" It's kind of the whole deal

If we wanted we could probably spend a lot of time and words debating what "sustainability" is, but a) that gets real boring, and 2) we've got more important things to do, and time's short.  In an important way, sustainability pulls together just about everything we're talking about, or should be.  Or that's how I see it. 

Puzzling the Martian again

I'm starting to use my weekly column to look at some prevailing consumption habits that would stagger a visiting Martian anthropolgist. One that comes up for me practically every time I visit the post office is about newsprint and other kinds of paper. I know you've noticed it. I wrote it up in the most recent column to see what might stir.

Any thoughts?

New Year, Mayor, President, Chance and Commitment

The year's new. So is the world.

Everyone who dares to think openly knows that we won't thrive, or maybe even survive, without a big shift towards sustainable habits and lifestyles. And "sustainability" means...well, there are plenty of dictionary definitions, but I'm not sure any of them grab us in a way that energizes. Maybe, like art or obscenity, we only know it when we see it. That's why I asked readers in my New Year's column to ante up very specific ideas about sustainable change.

What's yours?