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Lifeboats — the Backstory
I have made it my personal mission to launch a Fleet of 100 Lifeboats in response to the multiple global crises we now face. Recently, a friend asked where this idea came from. As I was talking through a possible response with one of my collaborators, we realized it’s a challenging story to tell because it involves…
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The goal isn’t the goal
Daily Reflections 2025-05-19 It’s a rainy morning. We had a gorgeous day yesterday and I spent most of it in the garden preparing beds for planting so I’m a bit stiff and sore this morning, but in a good way. And I have a few thought rattling around. I read a great piece by Jennifer…
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Maps and Money
Learning to see what’s already moving Some days it feels like I’m standing in a blizzard of good intentions. Emails, grant proposals, meeting notes, invitations — all swirling so thick I can’t tell what’s moving and what’s stuck. The world turns white, and it’s hard to tell up from down; forward from backward. I had…
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What does it mean to belong?
What if the problem isn’t ownership — but disconnection? Ben Kadel examines what happens when stewardship structures ask people to give long-term care to land and community without allowing that care to return as security, continuity, or future capacity. Drawing on the logic of healthy land-based cultures — where stewardship and livelihood were inseparable —…
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Building the Lifeboat Is the Lifeboat
The pan-dimensional Möbius process As the reality of the polycrisis is dawning on more and more people, we keep hearing the same questions: What can I do? Where do I start? How can I get ready for something when I don’t even know what’s gonna happen? Next week, we’ll be hosting our next DIY Lifeboat…
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To the lifeboats
Our current problems run deep. Our leaders, institutions, and basic assumptions about how the world is supposed to work are all failing us. The problem is so huge that our brains can’t grok what’s going on. The complexity. The scale. And the constant noise! Who can make sense of it all? So, let’s talk in…
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Where are you investing your time?
Daily Reflections 2025-07-02 Jul 02, 2025 The other day, I told a friend that I’m no good at money. She’s concerned that this represents a self-limiting belief about money that’s holding me back. It bugged me for a few days until I finally realized that she heard that as some sort of self-confession, but I…
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Reflections: January 6th, 2021
Jan 7, 2021 I had an interesting day today. Didn’t we all? Mine had a slight twist in it, though. My morning started out with an amazing conversation about death and life and collapse and, really, what’s it all about Alfie. Lately, I’ve been hosting online “navigation sessions” based on the sociocracy 3.0 model. We do…
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Blessing or curse?
Oct 13, 2018 There is a classic Buddhist story about a farmer and a horse. The moral of the story: you never know whether something is a blessing or a curse. With time and perspective, curses look like blessings and blessings look like curses. Most people, myself included, have direct personal experience with the concept. We’ve…
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Learning to unlearn
Business as Usual and the Antidote Jul 14, 2025 I’m often surprised at how hard people make things for themselves. For example, we treat sociocracy as some complicated, arcane rule-based system when it’s actually amazingly simple. Sociocracy basically says “do more of what works and less of what doesn’t.” Simple. To do that, we lean…
