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Conventional wisdom could be defined as something widely assumed to be true until it’s closely examined. Last week, as he nixed proposed regulations that would have imposed more stringent air quality standards, President Obama cited, in part, the economic impact of the proposed regulations. This notion – that we can’t afford to have a clean [...]

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Back in grad school, I was talking with my advisor and frequent collaborator George Forman (the professor, not the pugilist) about the stiff competition for some sort of grant funding. “But Chris,” he said, “All we need is a better idea than the others have.” Oh. Right. Forget about the competition. Focus on your best [...]

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Watch the latest video at video.foxbusiness.com I like and respect Bill Nye. But as a communications guy, I have to say: he could have done a lot better job in his interview on Fox this week about Hurricane Irene and climate change. If you watch his interview with Charles Payne of Fox, you see that [...]

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The World Bank has just announced that global food prices are at a three-year high. The price of maize is up 84% since last summer; sugar has gone up by 62%. At a meeting of the Sustainable Food Lab a few years ago, Peter Senge noted that “the global food system produces inexpensive food for [...]

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Anyone paying attention knows that the planet has been taking some lumps lately. So the question arises: where does hope come from? How do we carry on in the face of long odds? In this short clip from an interview I did a while back with Otto Scharmer of MIT and the Presencing Institute, Otto [...]

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I went for a long bike ride the other day and stopped at a bike shop I’d never been to before to buy a mirror. Asked a question, got an adequate (if cursory) answer, bought the mirror, and left to assemble it in their parking lot. And as I did I thought: I am a [...]

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If you’ve been following the news from Washington lately, you know that higher-level thinking skills are all too rare. So it was a great pleasure to be in Tucson last week, working with the Camp Snowball team. Camp Snowball brought together more than 250 people from around the world to learn more about education for [...]

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My client the Rippel Foundation has taken on ambitious and visionary work to improve the delivery of healthcare in the U.S. Right now we spend way more than other countries and rank poorly in health rankings compared to most other developed countries. I created an animated slideshow for their annual dinner. We’ll be making a [...]

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Fear and excitement both activate our bodies in similar ways. They make our hearts beat faster, they kick off a flow of brain chemicals, and they produce those familiar butterflies in the stomach. So what’s the difference? My friend Ross Harwood explained it this way: fear causes us to lean back, while excitement causes us [...]

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