Here’s a little dilemma. Last week I finished a two-year-long project, producing 17 books about understanding and doing business in 16 countries in Asia. They were always meant to be e-books: Kindle, iPad, PDF, etc. Especially as I’ve been living in Singapore and New Zealand for the past few years, I really appreciate how e-books […]
…which doesn’t disprove anything about climate change, no matter what the denialists babble. Schools were cancelled. Roads were closed. People’s lives came to a halt. (We had a great time playing in the snow for a few minutes until it got too cold to stay outdoors) All of which is very nice, of course…unless you’ve […]
The world’s island nations are truly on the “front lines” of climate change, facing not just refugee crises and resource depletion but the very real possibility that their lands themselves will cease to exist as ocean levels continue to rise. One such nation is Tuvalu, six rock atolls and three reef islands midway between Hawaii […]
…that they’re not doomed to repeat it. Here’s some important history for us:
I remember reading that a natural ecosystem that had taken thousands of years to develop can be destroyed in ten minutes by a guy driving a bulldozer. That seems true enough; horrifying and depressing, but true. All evolution’s gradual work, building a wonderfully complex interdependent structure — turned into undifferentiated rubble in less time than […]
I learned this song at summer camp — a camp which was, not coincidentally, run by Pete’s elder brother John Seeger, who died last year at age 95. At Camp Killooleet, community singing was a regular feature, and one of the musicians who led the kids was a guy named George Ward; I learned this […]