future generations - Growing Good Lives

Finding the courage to live by our values

inezaponte — Sun, 15 Jan 2023 22:09:11 +0000

Increasingly, I am finding myself in conversations I could only have dreamt of when I first became aware of the link between the economy and the climate crisis,…

You are brilliant. The earth is hiring

inezaponte — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 19:22:17 +0000

This planet came with a set of instructions, but we seem to have misplaced them. Important rules like don't poison the water, soil, or air, don't let the earth get overcrowded, and don't touch the thermostat have been broken. Buckminster Fuller said that spaceship earth was so ingeniously designed that no one has a clue that we are on one, flying through the universe at a million miles per hour, with no need for seatbelts, lots of room in coach, and really good food—but all that is changing.

Alone in a sea of marshmallows

inezaponte — Tue, 17 May 2022 15:31:04 +0000

Understanding and challenging the attention economy In a letter to Joë Bousquet, the French philosopher Simone Weil wrote, “Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity”. At…

Would you rather…?

inezaponte — Sat, 30 Oct 2021 14:19:15 +0000

Another day, another climate talk – Part 2 It’s 3.45 in the morning and I’m awake. Outside I can hear the rain, the incessant rain. Was it the…