I don’t know about you, but I’ve become very jaded lately. Obama’s signing of the Patriot Act – allowing indefinite detention for any reason is a big part of my feelings of disillusion. The fact that people do not know enough about how our nature world works to understand the dangers of climate change is another. The very real cracks in our education, medical, agricultural systems and our seeming blindness to them is a third. I could go on – maybe you can too.

Still, I look out and the sun is shining. It maybe climate change, but I am liking the warmth we have on this December day. The truth is I DO love people and the planet and Life!

With this new website you will see me become way more active in waking us up! Check out the Resilience Institute. Here WE can come together and talk about how to make our own contributions, one person, one company at a time, but collectively growing a stronger voice and perhaps more strategic actions.

The Learning Center provides a place for us to all get on the same page. Watch for that to expand in the coming year! I’m talking to some dynamite people who offer brilliant insights, tools, and methods to help us recreate a world in which we all want to live.

Beyond the despair that comes from contemplating the impact of nature’s changes there is a hope and an expectation that, while different, it will be OK. Bill McKibbon’s new book Eaarth makes this point. I heartedly recommend it.  The changes are tough to look at, but…there is hope.

A good part of resilience has to do with seeing reality clearly and then dancing with it as you move into a new space. Another aspect is that we got here by living from certain habits and beliefs. Since this isn’t Kansas any more, we need to acquire new habits and new understandings about what works. I find that part actually exciting!

The whole point of the Resilience Institute is to generate that conversation and have all of the members act as resources for each other as we explore this new frontier. New ways of making decisions, coming to agreement, holding meetings, designing organizations – it’s all up for grabs!