Fitting Resolutions, Living Synergies
Life goes one of two ways: On, and circling the drain. Or on, and remaining active and truly alive. The first, worse, is easy and comes naturally. It also has...
View ArticleFacing Reality, Coming Home
We want to live with a feeling of being at home, knowing our places and ways. A big part of cultural and national mythologies revolves around this theme; it tells...
View ArticleIt Takes a Village… Lessons of the Past to Move the Sharing Economy Forward
In all the talk about “preppers” looking for self-sufficiency, homemakers trying to get out of the corporate world’s clutches, and 3D printer-using “makers” creating a new civilization one layer of...
View ArticleWe’ll (Only) Protect What We Love…?
Nature. The environment. The outdoors. When there isn’t a catastrophe to remind us of its powers, when we don’t encounter majestic animals or landscapes that remind us of its beauty,...
View ArticlePollinator Drones, Dysevolution, and Paths of Positive Doing
It all seems so logical. The number of honey bees is declining, and we don’t quite know the (single?) reason. But, we need them as pollinators for many a crop,...
View ArticleThe Survival of the Fitting
For a species to exist in this world, it must fit into it. That is, it must be adapted well-enough to the conditions it encounters for it to survive and...
View ArticleJoy, Life, Purpose
“Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is...
View ArticleThe Terror of an Unchanging Climate Conversation
March 20th was the UN Day of Happiness. March 21, the beginning of spring. And the news? “Nasa-funded study: industrial civilisation headed for ‘irreversible collapse’?“ “Climate change is putting...
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Earth-Funded* Study: Creation of Civilization is Imminent
Still thinking about and engaged in discussions about that… New studies are playing with new computer models, and once again the media are jumping on the great headlines that it makes when computers...
View ArticleHappy Earth Day!
Happy Earth Day! Give Bees a Chance! Or, if you want something more typically eco-friendly: But, better make every day a day to make yourself at home in this world and thus move to better living…Read...
View ArticleThe Luxury of the #ecohappy Life
Luxury has sometimes been described as having been democratized: No longer does an average person have no way of participating in status consumption, no chance to fill up a home with all the stuff that...
View ArticleRe-Learned Powerfulness
Psychology has long been focused on diagnosing disorders. It took the development of “positive psychology” to change the perspective towards the study (and promotion) of the things that make for...
View ArticleEcosystems, Eating, Essential Joy
From Roman times to the Renaissance, pepper used to be what rich people used to excess because only they could afford it. Baroque nobility had banquet food covered in sugar because it was the new...
View ArticleThe Eco-Anthropic Principle of Human Life on Earth?
The anthropic principle was suggested in cosmology, based on the observation that physical constants in the universe have certain values, and they must have these values or the universe would not exist...
View ArticlePaleo, the Backlash, and Returns Forward
The “paleo” trend, especially prominent with the paleo diet, but also producing advice for many another area of life, is one of the more fascinating things to consider from an ‘ecohappy’ perspective....
View ArticleBook Giveaway: The Third Plate
Coming from ecology and cultural anthropology, it is pretty clear that we have been getting things backwards. Evolution means adapting to an environment, and even as many living beings also change...
View ArticleTime for Growth!
The fear for the future is a failure to grow; what doesn’t make for growth is nothing good – but could we finally grow up? We are getting any rise in GDP described as growth and argued as being...
View ArticleBe the Hero of Your Life
We love hero stories. And sure, the hero stories we tell are all too simple, with one hero or, at most, a small team of heroes, having to rise against one (only seemingly) overwhelming challenge. All...
View ArticleEnough!, and: Better Living by Ecology
This year started out – or is that, continued? – with a barrage of bad news that is enough to make any sane person just want to turn it off and tune it out. A little selection? Scientists’ dire...
View ArticleGoing Beyond “Eco,” Gaining Life
What do you want from life? What kind of a person do you want to be? More likely than not, you want to make a living, do good by you and yours so you can look yourself in the mirror, not feel like a...
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