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“Infinite growth in a finite world is an impossibility” goes a popular quote. It is usually rolled out to illustrate that sustainability requires humanity to impose limits. Sometimes people then point to a specific element that they argue we will run out of in relatively short order, for instance phosphorus. I believe that this view is... See more

My battle to consume less continues on every front: from clothes to household items to everything else. I have been ruthlessly paring down the list of things I want in my life to the absolute favorites.

Three Spheres of Action: (a) individual (b) community (c) State/Country/World.

The dictionary definition of kind is to be of a sympathetic, helpful, forbearing nature. The wonderfully named website “Kindness Is Everything” provides a more provocative statement: Kindness Is Love In Action.

This is now nearly forty years ago and I have since developed a much more differentiated appreciation of both cultures, seeing the positives and negatives in each of them more clearly. And of course the cultures themselves haven’t been static. For example, young entrepreneurs in both places are much more alike today.