By Daniel Christian Wahl, originally published at Medium, March 15, 2017 Sustainability alone is not an adequate goal. The word sustainability itself is inadequate, as it does not tell us what we are actually trying to sustain. In 2005, after spending two years working on my doctoral thesis on design for sustainability, I began to… Read More Sustainability is not enough; we need regenerative cultures
HumanAdminMarch 15, 2017 March 24, 2017 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm America/New York Timezone Shambhala Meditation Center of New York 118 W 22nd St 6th Floor, New York New York 10011 Do you want to learn more about what you can do to end racism? Do you want to learn how to engage meditation in… Read More Dismantling Racism with Meditation: White Ally Training
[Editor: Another in the series on understanding the economy, from our friends at P2P Foundation.] The silver lining of anti-globalism might be the creation of a true digital economy March 7, 2017 Douglas Rushkoff 9 min read originally published in P2P Foundation The folks at Davos this week are trying to behave as if everything is normal. Sure,… Read More Corporations vs. Distributive Commons
Recently there’s been some discussion in activist Buddhist circles about how to deal with anger amid the chaos and brutality of the Insane Clown White House. BPF is offering a a six-week web course on anger called U Mad? Mad Wisdom for Rageful Times. For a quickie, I offer my favourite pop guru, Russell Brand. Check out Russ’ new… Read More How to Deal with Your F#%*n Anger
Six reasons why the Left should keep on infighting GRETA CHRISTINA 17 March 2017 originally published at Transformation The women’s march on Washinmgton DC. Credit: Liz Lemon/Flickr. Some rights reserved. Originally published on Everyday Feminism. “Why does the Left keep eating its own? We need to be united!” “We should be fighting conservatives – not each other! And that’s true now… Read More Infighting as a Sign of Inclusive Democracy
[Editor: Mr. L. Steven Sieden seems to have run up against the more cult-like aspects of Nalandabodhi, under the authority of Dzogchen Ponlop. Although I don’t know what transpired between this member and the sangha, this report feels very much like the kind of secretive, authoritarian and cult-like aspects of Nalandabodhi that I experienced during my… Read More Nalandabodhi’s Cultish Turn
by Shaun Bartone Marx began his Eighteenth Brumaire with a correction of Hegel’s idea that history necessarily repeats itself: “Hegel remarks somewhere that all great events and characters of world history occur, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. (Zizek, First as Tragedy, Then… Read More First As Tragedy, Then As Farce…Third as Denouement
