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 with respect. ... And our…
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 short-term world, by Roman Krznaric.…
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 a great deal of effort…
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 durable success. They may invest…
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 more important than ever. The…
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 rooted in concerns over short-termism…
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 the Tweetering and Facebooking and…
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 of Mother Earth: Indigeneity Smithsonian…
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 new pronoun when referring to…
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 of our time. Part One addresses:…