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Things Are Moving Fast
I am Mark Dolan and I have completed Common Earth Modules 1 and 2. The program has hooked me. What I do with the knowledge is where I am…
Environmental Activism in the Time of “Global Boiling”.
Global Boiling – A Sobering Reality Last week, the UN Secretary-General made a striking remark that resonates deeply with the current…
This IS Happening! but we STILL have Choices
Absolute Heat Limits Exist for all Organisms and Machines Have you ever parked and left your cell phone on the car seat on a hot sunny…
Biomimicry For the Sake of Our Common Earth
I was introduced to the Common Earth curriculum by someone I met on the Substack platform where I explore my new hobby of writing. My…
A Breath of Fresh Air in Brazil
On October 30th, Brazilians chose their President for the 2023-2026 term. We can’t say that a new President was elected because the…
The Common Earth School Club
Twice a week from September to this past week, the Saint Michael’s College School Common Earth club in Toronto, Canada has been meeting…
The Gifts we are Given and Whole System Change
Here is a little story about the gifts of insight and community. A couple of weeks ago, my wife, Anne and I took a one-week holiday to…
An Emerging System – Where we will want to live!
1. Basic Services: Lessons from the Blue Whale One of the things that marks our current socio-economic system is that it fails to…
How Can You Be Certain that the Current System is Headed for Collapse?
What is “possible” and what is “impossible”? In 1928 J.B.S. Haldane, a British scientist, wrote a paper titled “On Being the Right Size.”.
We Now Live in a Caring Society That Puts Carbon in Its Place
The introduction to this series described this first essay in the following terms: The first article will lay out what we mean by the…
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