#backcasting

How Many Deals Can Fit in One Video? Watch Below! In a long-going effort to bring some light to the darkness that has settled over my old YouTube Fly Fishing Channel over the decades, I have been doing some updating of the fodder that goes with these videos. This one seemed cool to me for a few reasons, but if you are tired of shameless promotions of GEAR, especially FLY GEAR? then don’t watch…

What is it? How does it happen? When someone says a lake is “turning over,” they are describing a natural process in which the water layers of the lake mix, usually due to changes in temperature. Here’s a breakdown of what that means and what causes it: What Happens When a Lake Turns Over: Lakes naturally stratify into layers during different times of the year, typically with warmer water at…

The roadmap is you

We are at the end of a year extremely complicated, we know it. Energy crisis, economic crisis, an ongoing pandemic, an environmental emergency that we are unable to deal with seriously, and of course the infamous Russian invasion of Ukraine. All our cornerstones are now shaky: peace, welfare, health, democracy, progress. We have done nothing this year but accumulate uncertainties and we are…

On Friday, I participated a session of Moral Imaginations, a group of storytellers, facilitators, and practitioners that Phoebe Tickell has been virtually hosting for the past five weeks to collectively imagine a new narrative and world out of crisis. I didn’t participate in the first four session, but I wasn’t the only newcomer to the fifth. We were all welcomed and immediately included in the collective work, contributing something we were (metaphorically) bringing with us to the video call chat and reading them aloud, strung together, one by one, into one long collective poem. Then Phoebe led us in a collective visioning session, walking us through an imagined scene, the sounds, the scents, the sights, the feelings.

Working back from human extinction.

Beyond The Cult Of Human-Centered Design