I was lying on my back in the snow, staring up through the branches of the big old oak tree in front of our house, when it hit me. That's where I'd ended up after going down hill on my buttocks (on purpose, riding tea-saucers with my youngest daughter). It felt lovely just to lie … Continue reading What it Means to be a Sustainability Change Agent
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“And the winning song is …”
Aren't you curious to know which of my songs is the most popular? That is, the most purchased in its digital format, on iTunes, Amazon.com, etc.? You won't believe it. I certainly didn't believe it. Let me back up. It would be easy to scribble pages and pages of philosophical rumination on the importance of … Continue reading “And the winning song is …”
Revisiting the Big Push: A Strategy for Scaling Up Renewable Energy
While the Cancún climate talks were under way, I published several different versions of the following short essay, which first appeared as a blog post in "Triple Crisis," then as a comment in Eurovoice newspaper's "Comment:Visions," and finally is slated for publication in the academic journal Solutions. Here is the Comment:Visions version: In late 2009, … Continue reading Revisiting the Big Push: A Strategy for Scaling Up Renewable Energy
Alan AtKisson 