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 [...]

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 [...]

Colin Beavan, a.k.a. "No Impact Man," cites an article on the BBC web site written by Joanna Benn, who, as a "journalist, writer and consultant specialising in environmental issues," writes: "When I see babies, not only do I see the beauty, joy and miracle of life, I also see nappies, landfill waste, vast amounts of [...]

I was surprised and humbled to be included among 100 or so thinkers whom leading sustainability publication Worldchanging asked the following question just prior to Obama's historic presidential victory:
In 100 words or less, what should the next president do in his first 100 days to address the planet’s most pressing problems?
My two cents?
Coordinated Nationwide Public [...]

The Realistic Sanctuary Blog is now affiliated with Blogburst, a blog syndication network that has relationships with major media outlets, including Reuters, Gannett, USA Today, and the Manchester Guardian.
We're happy to announce that being part of the Blogburst network has yielded its first win: On August 15, 2008, Reuters.com re-published the post "Nine things [...]

In my previous post, I wrote about Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, the Haida artist who illustrated the book Flight of the Hummingbird using his own Haida manga style.
As noted in that post, the hummingbird of the story tirelessly drops beads of water onto a great forest fire, presumably to little, if any, material effect. As the [...]

Let me begin this post by saying I'm grateful for the concerted efforts of many to counteract climate change and save the planet-by reducing waste and carbon emissions as part of a sustainable lifestyle.
The way I see it, though, material sustainability is passé. It's more accurate to report we're in some kind of post-sustainability scenario [...]

"The worse things get the more delusional we’ll get because that’s what we do in crises: we get delusional."
- James Howard Kunstler, from No Impact Man blog
It's an anxious time. As a collective, humanity doesn't know how the macroeconomic situation will evolve, nor is it certain whether action on a large-enough scale to limit [...]

Predicting the future ain't all it's cracked up to be. There's a major gap between perception and reality, between the future we hope for and the one we fear (in the pit of our stomach) may come to pass given what we know.
Take Steven P. Jobs, CEO of Apple, Inc., arguably America's top technology evangelist [...]

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Adrian Cerezo, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, originally uploaded by Sanjay Khanna.
 
Today was the first day of "Sustaining Biological and Cultural Diversity in a Rapidly Changing World: [...]