The challenge of how to integrate sustainability concepts and practices into business education continues to occupy my thoughts. Recently, I attended two helpful webinars that dealt with this issue. One was offered by Harvard Business Publishing. The other was offered by Ivey Business School. Both had interesting speakers and panelists. …

What if there is only one side of me? What if I only take in knowledge cognitively? Or what if I am an artist and only take in what registers though my senses which then likely goes into and registers in my gut? …

Author and professor Zadie Smith writes poignantly about life during the COVID-19 crisis in her new book of essays, “Intimations.” In one essay “A Hovering Young Man,” she encounters a young person working at her university. Cy-the-IT-Guy accosts me (usually from behind) as I walk through the square, with his…

I read the new and enlightening book “The Dawn of Everything” by David Graeber and David Wengrow during the same week that I watched COP 26 unfold in Glasgow Scotland. At the same time when I saw many leading national politicians at COP 26 retreat from the potential that we…

In a recent meeting among part of the cohort in the regenerative design course I am taking (Earth Regenerators), the question came up for me: “Where do I fit in?” …

When reflecting about living-in-place, it is a pleasant adventure to return to the poetry of Wordsworth who is perhaps the most famous of what can be called English language “nature-poets.” His descriptions of being in nature seem to be from the perspective of being fully immersed in Nature. …

I agree with those writers who say that one cannot fully understand a regenerative lifestyle or bioregionalism until one has lived it. One gets a flavor of this experience from the comment by Berg and Dasmann who say, “Living-in-place means following the necessities and pleasures of life as they are…

Mitchell Thomashow in his chapter entitled “Toward a Cosmopolitan Bioregionalism” in the book, Bioregionalism, edited by Michael Vincent McGinnis speaks of what he calls “cosmopolitan bioregionalism.” That is quite a mouthful especially for people who are not yet intimately familiar with the idea of bioregionalism. Let me try to unpack…

I think a wonderful place to start in terms of developing a regenerative perspective is simply with being human. I think the most human thing we can do, as well as perhaps the most spiritual, is to encounter each other’s face. …