Big History – Longtermism

History of the Earth in one year Interactive: What Earth’s 4.54 billion-year history would look like in a single year Francisco Jose Testa, Lecturer in Earth

Be a better ancestor Five ways to be good to future generations, Positive News, June 18, 2021 From backing future-focused political projects, to re-framing what

Looking back to get a better idea about looking forward In: Deep time is, like, really, really deep, man, Ann Reid asks us to reconsider

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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,

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.

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

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

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