Climate Leadership: Not a Moment to Lose
With the U.S. out of the Paris Agreement, several setbacks loom for global efforts to address climate change. According to climate scientist Michael Oppenheimer, these […]
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Communication: Bridging Integrity and Flexibility
In a past post, I talked about the importance of maintaining integrity through change. Integrity is keeping thought, word, and action consistent with one’s core values. […]
Continue reading »The Biomimicry of Vipassana
Recently I participated in a ten-day Vipassana Meditation Training in the California desert. It had been on my bucket list for over a decade, so I […]
Continue reading »On Authenticity
I’ve been pondering for a while now what authenticity means. We advocate for the true self, which is the authentic, “real” person underneath social conditioning […]
Continue reading »Mindfulness, Values, and Behavior Change
As AZENTIVE embarks on a quest to share Authentic Sun, a full spectrum plasma lighting technology, with North American customers, we are very mindful of […]
Continue reading »Aging, Regrets, and Behavior Change
After my advisor died suddenly during my hospice volunteer training one summer, I came to a profound realization: death is a definitive transition point. You […]
Continue reading »How to Be Happy AND Fight Climate Change
I read several articles this weekend and two were about the same solution for two seemingly very different challenges facing society: being happy, and improving climate stability. […]
Continue reading »Transitions: Why We Change Jobs
Research from Gallup suggests that doing what we do best is essential to a good fit in an organization. It’s one of five factors; the others […]
Continue reading »Operationalizing Science: A Wider Audience
Building on my post about how to reinvent academia, I want to focus a bit on the constraints that make scientific research limited in its […]
Continue reading »Plant-Based Food: A Doctor’s Personal Journey
I have been a meat eater for more than sixty years. Despite my forty-year career in medicine, I was rarely exposed to plant-based medicine as a […]
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