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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Worldchanging is one of my favorite sustainability publications.
Over the past five years, executive editor/co-founder Alex Steffen and his global posse of contributors have painstakingly built up a treasure trove of valuable insight into the politics, technology, strategy, and tactics of sustainability, and they are currently preparing to celebrate their five-year anniversary on October 1, 2008.
How? [...]

On the day of the debate to boot. Anyway, here's the Reuters.com link to my open letter to U.S. presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain.
Hope you enjoy it; have a good weekend.

As earlier noted, 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.
Well, being part of Blogburst yielded wins two and three today, which, for me, is definitely something to celebrate.
Regarding "The Big Melt," the post [...]

Updates and Correction Appended
"The Arctic sea ice cover appears to have reached its minimum extent for the year, the second-lowest extent recorded since the dawn of the satellite era."
- National Snow and Ice Data Center, Press Release, September 16, 2008
"The unthinkable – a government buyout of much of the private sector's bad debt [...]

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 [...]