By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 12 Nov 20
Antarctic Sea Ice Melt — 02019 (Source: Maxar) The Ancient Greeks had two different words fortime. The first, chronos, is time as we think of it now: marching forward, ceaselessly creating our past, present, and future. The second, kairos, is time in the opportune sense: the ideal moment to act, as captured by the phrase, “It’s time.” My work, like many other photographers, has been a dedicated search forkairos — finding that ideal confluence of place and time that helps to tell a particular story. For me, that story has focused on the manmade world. In 02013, I launched Daily Overview, which features compositions created
Antarctic Sea Ice Melt — 02019 (Source: Maxar) The Ancient Greeks had two different words fortime. The first, chronos, is time as we think of it now: marching forward, ceaselessly creating our past, present, and future. The second, kairos, is time in the opportune sense: the ideal moment to act, as captured by the phrase, “It’s time.” My work, like many other
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 12 Nov 20
Antarctic Sea Ice Melt — 02019 (Source: Maxar) The Ancient Greeks had two different words fortime. The first, chronos, is time as we think of it now: marching forward, ceaselessly creating our past, present, and future. The second, kairos, is time in the opportune sense: the ideal moment to act, as captured by the phrase, “It’s time.” My work, like many other photographers, has been a dedicated search forkairos — finding that ideal confluence of place and time that helps to tell a particular story. For me, that story has focused on the manmade world. In 02013, I launched Daily Overview, which features compositions created
Antarctic Sea Ice Melt — 02019 (Source: Maxar) The Ancient Greeks had two different words fortime. The first, chronos, is time as we think of it now: marching forward, ceaselessly creating our past, present, and future. The second, kairos, is time in the opportune sense: the ideal moment to act, as captured by the phrase, “It’s time.” My work, like many other
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 11 Aug 20
The time-honored debate between catastrophists and gradualists (those who believe major Earth changes were due to sudden violent events or happened over long periods of time) has everything to do with the coarse grain of the geological record. When paleontologists only have a series of thousand-year flood deposits to study, it’s almost impossible to say what was really going on at shorter timescales. So many of the great debates of natural history hinge on the resolution at which data can be collected, and boil down to something like, “Was it a meteorite impact that caused this extinction, or the inexorable
The time-honored debate between catastrophists and gradualists (those who believe major Earth changes were due to sudden violent events or happened over long periods of time) has everything to do with the coarse grain of the geological record. When paleontologists only have a series of thousand-year flood deposits to study, it’s almost impossible to say what was really going on
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 28 May 20
Insights from 14 of the world’s foremost long-term thinkersLong Conversation speakers (from top left): Stewart Brand, Esther Dyson, David Eagleman, Ping fu, Katherine Fulton, Danny Hillis, Kevin Kelly, Ramez Naam, Alexander Rose, Paul Saffo, Peter Schwartz, Tiffany Shlain, Bina Venkataraman, and Geoffrey West.On April 14th, 02020, The Long Now Foundation convened a Long Conversation¹ featuring members of our board and invited speakers. Over almost five hours of spirited discussion, participants reflected on the current moment, how it fits into our deeper future, and how we can address threats to civilization that are rare but ultimately predictable. The following are excerpts from
Insights from 14 of the world’s foremost long-term thinkersLong Conversation speakers (from top left): Stewart Brand, Esther Dyson, David Eagleman, Ping fu, Katherine Fulton, Danny Hillis, Kevin Kelly, Ramez Naam, Alexander Rose, Paul Saffo, Peter Schwartz, Tiffany Shlain, Bina Venkataraman, and Geoffrey West.On April 14th, 02020, The Long Now Foundation convened a Long Conversation¹ featuring members of our board and invited
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 4 May 20
Science Fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson has written a powerful meditation on what the pandemic heralds for the future of civilization in The New Yorker. Possibly, in a few months, we’ll return to some version of the old normal. But this spring won’t be forgotten. When later shocks strike global civilization, we’ll remember how we behaved this time, and how it worked. It’s not that the coronavirus is a dress rehearsal—it’s too deadly for that. But it is the first of many calamities that will likely unfold throughout this century. Now, when they come, we’ll be familiar with how they
Science Fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson has written a powerful meditation on what the pandemic heralds for the future of civilization in The New Yorker. Possibly, in a few months, we’ll return to some version of the old normal. But this spring won’t be forgotten. When later shocks strike global civilization, we’ll remember how we behaved this time, and how
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 9 Apr 20
Read the article in Spanish — in French — in German — in Italian — in Portuguese — in Traditional Chinese — in Polish — in Vietnamese — in Simplified Chinese part 1 & part 2Checking the temperature of a passenger arriving at the international airport in Hong Kong. The city, like Singapore and Taiwan, has made headway in containing Covid-19. (Ph. credit: Hannah Mckay/Reuters)As 100 million people in Europe are in lockdown, the US seems to be completely unprepared for the tsunami that is about to hit. “We’re about to experience the worst public health disaster since polio,” says Dr Martin Makary, professor at Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Don’t believe the numbers
Read the article in Spanish — in French — in German — in Italian — in Portuguese — in Traditional Chinese — in Polish — in Vietnamese — in Simplified Chinese part 1 & part 2Checking the temperature of a passenger arriving at the international airport in Hong Kong. The city, like Singapore and Taiwan, has made headway in containing Covid-19. (Ph. credit: Hannah Mckay/Reuters)As 100 million people in Europe are in lockdown, the US seems to
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 20 Dec 19
Are you concerned about the nature and climate crisis and thinking how can I turn my city around?Or are you seeing something awesome emerge and thinking this is great but it’s never going to be enough, unless…Wellington Climate Action Festival crew, December 2007. Image credit: Silvia ZuurI’ve been immersing myself in responding to our big socio-ecological challenges for over a decade. As a student and activist I helped organise seminars, film screenings and engaging climate action festivals; I wrote and presented submissions to policy-makers and worked for the co-leader of New Zealand’s Green Party. I then worked as a researcher to understand how
Are you concerned about the nature and climate crisis and thinking how can I turn my city around?Or are you seeing something awesome emerge and thinking this is great but it’s never going to be enough, unless…Wellington Climate Action Festival crew, December 2007. Image credit: Silvia ZuurI’ve been immersing myself in responding to our big socio-ecological challenges for over a decade. As a
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 13 Dec 19
I walk this ancient road every morning without shoes, to feel the ground directly in contact with my body.Our family arrived in the town of Barichara in Colombia’s northern Andes Mountains with the intention of learning how to live a regenerative life while raising our three-year-old daughter. We know that the Earth is in overshoot-and-collapse. We are deeply aware of the challenges humanity must navigate in the coming century. And we want to be part of the healing that our planet so desperately needs.We were welcomed by a host family — Felipe and Alejandra along with their three young kids — who were about to
I walk this ancient road every morning without shoes, to feel the ground directly in contact with my body.Our family arrived in the town of Barichara in Colombia’s northern Andes Mountains with the intention of learning how to live a regenerative life while raising our three-year-old daughter. We know that the Earth is in overshoot-and-collapse. We are deeply aware of the
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 3 Nov 19
Seeds are dispersed and activated in many waysThe Earth has an innate capacity to support life. The seeds of regeneration for this special planet lay dormant in its pathway of cosmological development that included being at just the right distance from the Sun, having a companion Moon to mix the oceans, and other key factors that gave rise to complex life.Among its many life systems has been the emergence of a peculiar mammal with distinctive cultural abilities — including the innate capacities to redirect evolutionary energies away from other species to feed itself. This is what has enabled humans to degrade landscapes all over
Seeds are dispersed and activated in many waysThe Earth has an innate capacity to support life. The seeds of regeneration for this special planet lay dormant in its pathway of cosmological development that included being at just the right distance from the Sun, having a companion Moon to mix the oceans, and other key factors that gave rise to complex life.Among its
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 28 Oct 19
Our daughter Elise learning how to live in harmony with natureThe Earth is in overshoot-and-collapse. There are deep systemic threats for the future of humanity. And we have a child who turns three years old in January. How are we supposed to live as a family? This is the learning journey we have been on for the last year.We got rid of nearly all our possessions and moved to Costa Rica — joining an effort to regenerate entire bioregions that was preparing to launch there. This gave us an amazing opportunity to immerse our daughter, Elise, in a biodiversity hotspot on the edge of
Our daughter Elise learning how to live in harmony with natureThe Earth is in overshoot-and-collapse. There are deep systemic threats for the future of humanity. And we have a child who turns three years old in January. How are we supposed to live as a family? This is the learning journey we have been on for the last year.We got rid of