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 [...]

Open letter to Barack Obama and John McCain
Dear Mr. Obama and Mr. McCain:
I am a foresight researcher and a fellow North American.
I'm writing this open letter to share my concerns about the United States' future.
Civil rights
In the 1970s, as a school-aged child in Canada, I learned about the U.S. civil rights movement, and the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Our collective inability to master slow modalities of cognition, and thus to embody wisdom, has made it exponentially more difficult to stabilize the economy, make peace with the environment, create trust among people and nations, and minimize the climate crisis.
To better mitigate these interrelated risks to humanity, we may have needed to be able to [...]

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Chinatown in NYC: A space for respite and contemplation, originally uploaded by Sanjay Khanna.
For those who read my first post on attending the American Natural History Museum’s conference, [...]