Amazing news on super-short notice!
In this time of unstable economies and growing climate impacts, I’m facilitating a workshop this coming weekend called “Resilient People: Building strength in a time of economic and climate change.”
“Resilient People: Building strength in a time of economic and climate change” is a workshop for our time. Facilitated by Resilient People co-founder [...]

Great news! As of May 2010, Alpha Yaya Diallo’s song “The Climate Is the Heart,” whose lyrics I co-wrote, has debuted at #19 on the Worldbeat Canada Top 30 chart.
Balkan Beatbox is #1 with the song “Look Them Act.” Angelique Kidjo is at #5 with “Move On Up.” Brazilian legend Caetano Veloso at #17 with “A base [...]

Last year, just prior to the UN Climate Conference (COP 15) in Copenhagen, I enjoyed the immense privilege of collaborating with four-time Juno Award*-winning world musician Alpha Yaya Diallo on the lyrics for a song about climate change-induced drought in Africa.
In describing the kind of lyrics he was looking for, Alpha, who grew up in [...]

The following is a translation of an article in which I’m quoted by Norwegian reporter Thomas Paust in Nettavisen.no, an Oslo-based online publication. I used Google Translate and massaged the text slightly to capture meaning. Am happy to receive corrections – the original article in Norwegian is here.
Climate change could lead to mass psychosis
“We know [...]

I was interviewed on OneClimate TV, part of the One Climate Network, during the Copenhagen climate summit in December 2009.
Anuradha Vittachi, the show’s accomplished presenter and new media pioneer, was part of a broad-based civil society partnership that took on the superhuman task of live-streaming interviews around the clock from within the Bella Centre, helping [...]

Happy 2010.
I find it hard to believe that the last time I posted to the Realistic Sanctuary blog was May 2009.
Here’s why. I started writing exclusively on HuffPost between June and December 2009 as well as traveling to conferences like the Tallberg Forum and the U.N. Climate Conference in Copenhagen, pursuing journalism as a way [...]

My latest article on HuffPost is a summary of a conference hosted by The New Yorker magazine.
Dubbed “The New Yorker Summit: The Next 100 Days,” the U.S. policy-centric event assembled leading intellectuals to discuss the state of the Obama administration, the economy, the environment, geopolitics, health care, climate change, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, [...]

On this recent post I wrote on The Huffington Post, I parse a pithy line that Bruce Sterling, sci-fi author, blogger, design critic at large, etc., delivered at South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) 2009. He said,
"In times of trouble like today, pessimists die quickly."
Enjoy my attempt to unpack, and kindly let me know what you [...]

Three weeks from the start of spring, I'm happy to report that I have a piece, "Who You Callin' a Slumdog?: America sees its future in Oscar-winning film," on The Huffington Post. I hope you like it.
And regarding that excellent blog-which I feel absolutely delighted to write for, by the way-I'll now be posting there [...]

To viewers of "Chai Time" on Omni TV who might have followed the link on the show to reach my blog, I thought I'd (a.) link to the article the host Tarannum referred to and (b.) say a little bit more about my background.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, I was awarded a scholarship [...]