To be good ancestors we need to start thinking in new ways
How to start being a better ancestor, today. If you can’t re-use it, don’t use it. … Work on our trauma. … Treat our elders
May 17, 2024
Big History – Longtermism
As good ancestors we are all entangled
Refer to MMM, Issue 42, Feb-March 2024 An illustration from page 27 of the book The Good Ancestor: How to think long term is a
May 16, 2024
We can retrain our brain for longer-term thinking
How thinking long-term can transform our brains, ABC Radio Victoria, 11 May 2023. In a world full of intense pressures and short deadlines, it takes
May 16, 2024
It’s time to lengthen our perspective
Long-term thinking in a short-term world A Guide for Executives Through long-term actions, firms seek to achieve more significant, even transformational changes that will enable
December 5, 2023
Past, present and future
THERE IS GOOD REASON to believe that we are living through an unusually influential time in human history. The need to be good ancestors is
October 8, 2023
Benefits of connecting with deep time and the long view
The wellbeing benefits of embracing deep time There are clearly intellectual reasons that so many people are now advocating for long-term thinking, many of them
October 8, 2023
Long term thinking and planning
Thinking as our indigenous forebears did, long term AT A TIME WHEN most of us are having enough trouble just keeping on top of all
October 7, 2023
Stewardship of Mother Earth
PICTURE: “We are limited to one vessel, with nowhere else to go.” Collections of the Smithsonian.com Annual Photo Contest, Rowan Mark McGann A New Way for Stewardship
October 7, 2023
Long view long overdue
A New Pronoun for the Natural World ROBIN Wall Kimmerer, the celebrated author of Braiding Sweetgrass, suggests we should develop the idea of using a
October 6, 2023
We’re better off when we appreciate our history
History provides us with a window into cause and effect LESSONS FROM HISTORY is a compilation of essays written by prominent Australians grappling with the issues
October 6, 2023
How nature teaches reciprocity
In Nectar Nomad in the Land of Enchantment, Melanie Kirby (Yes Magazine Spring 2022) tells the story of “What Bees Taught Me About Building Community”. The first bee keepers,
October 5, 2023
Deep time under our feet
Deep time happening under our feet When we go walking at Munibung Hill, we are in the presence of a geological history dating back 251
October 5, 2023
Apple dumpling in a bell shaped flower
Apple dumpling in the shape of bell flower never looked so good It was an exciting moment on the Lucilla Ridge Landcare planting day, April
October 4, 2023
For us to be good ancestors will require a new mindset to take account of future generations
For too long the short term thinking of the present age has discounted the rights of future generations to a quality of life resembling that
September 15, 2023
The longtermists geological time view
A short post to remind us that time marches on regardless of what how we might like to hang on to it. From the beginning
September 14, 2023
Time to make time for the things that matter
Time from the perspective of the current 24/7 news cycle, where every minute of every hour sees an update in what is considered current news,
September 13, 2023
The gift of ecological humility
Ifa Divination A salient example of ecological humility, and a powerful challenge to human supremacy in Black ecological thought, is the system of Ifa divination.
May 6, 2023
Worms and fossils connect us with big history
Where does our consciousness originate from? Not 60, not 90 nor 120k years ago. For Jim Bowler it’s even longer than that. Humans have been
May 4, 2023
Earth Charter
Deep Time Walk last time, Earth Charter Talk this time In the May issue of MMM we talked about the fact that Munibung Hill is
May 3, 2023
App review: Deep Time Walk – Living Earth History
This is a fantastic program made available at no charge. Dedicated to the memory of Polly Higgins, the Deep Time Walk project is what we need
May 2, 2023