Using Language, Stories and Identity to Move People To Action Black smoke. Armored vehicles. Pepper spray. Three hundred helmeted police in black riot gear. Lockstep marching, relentlessly forward. Helicopters. Nightsticks. Snipers. Bean bags. Rubber bullets. Sound cannons. Cell phone jamming. Waiting. Drums. Sage. Prayer circles. Tobacco. Song. Unarmed peaceful [...]
You don’t see many hitchhikers today. Likely due to too many exposés on axe-murderers in our media. It creates a lack of trust of our fellow man lowering the probability of getting picked up. When I was a kid, I hitchhiked to both coasts from Minnesota. I traded the [...]
Part IV I’d like to tell you a story… I called my daughter and said, “Your son is home from the ER now, and he is going to be OK.” Imagine that you are driving in Atlanta rush hour traffic. In the middle lane. Your eight-year-old grandson is in [...]
I’ve seen dozens of climate and environmental campaigns over the last 10 years. Almost every one falls into the issues trap. It’s the tactic of fighting a climate or environmental problem with facts and reason, rather than calling out the underlying violation of our values and telling a story. [...]
Here’s a contrarian viewpoint. Regardless of who wins this election, climate champions still have a lot of work to do. I don’t mean the nut’s and bolts work of trying to rebuild the Clean Power Plan, re-enter the Paris Accord, our launch the Green New Deal. We have to [...]
Once, I was traveling through Qamani Tuaq in the Kivalliq region of what is now Nunavut, the former Canadian Northwest Territories. I met an Inuit native there whose name was Ikutaq (or some close approximation). He might have been twenty or seventy, the elements chiseling their harsh breath on [...]
