February 29, 2024
Dear Friends,
My January newsletter column focused on the Earth Charter as a bridge between the conservative commitment to preserving the family and community values of our past and the progressive focus on moving forward to actualize our potential as a now interconnected global species. This February column takes on the discussion of human […]
My most recent YES! column identified 2020 as the defining year of a defining decade for humanity. The scientific data suggest it is our last opportunity to get in place the necessary measures to meet essential carbon emission reduction targets. This immediate and nonnegotiable imperative for human wellbeing, even survival, is a consequence of profound […]
At the 2018 Parliament of the World’s Religions in Toronto, David Korten, Jeremy Lent, Matthew Fox, and John B. Cobb, Jr., presented a series of four sessions focused on transitioning to an Ecological Civilization. Links […]
In 2019, we must move beyond the myth of the lone individual to recognize our deep interdependence and responsibilities for one another and nature.
(Commentary originally published by YES! Magazine, Dec 31, 2018)
It’s not likely that many of us will mourn the passing of 2018. It’s been a deeply troubled year defined by wildfires, […]
Jeff Bezos, the new richest person in the world, has asked for guidance on how to spend his fortune to the benefit of humanity.
(This commentary was originally published by YES! Magazine on May 11, 2018.)
Dear Jeff:
I read the CNBC article by Catherine Clifford about your desire […]
This conversation was recorded on Feb. 25, 2018, at Eagle Harbor Book Company on Bainbridge Island, WA. Jeremy Lent is the author of The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning (Prometheus Books, 2017).
The video has been organized as a series of 13 short, 2- to […]