Today, many things indicate that we are going through a transitional period when it seems that something is on the way out and something else is painfully being born. It is as if something were crumbling, decaying, and exhausting itself, while something else, still indistinct, were arising from the rubble.
Vaclav Havel
Reconceiving the way we address societal challenges through words and action
Earnest Hemingway said, “write what you know.” In my work, I undertake large, ambitious socio-ecological experiments, encounter challenges or failures - and then write about what I learned. Thus both writing and action are crucial facets of my work.
The Complexity Trilogy
Based on three decades of experience working with landscapes and communities across the globe, I have, over the last decade, written three books that address how to find positive solutions to societal challenges based on a wide diversity of perspectives, as well as my own first-hand experience.
Projects
Three decades of on-the-ground action provide deep first-hand knowledge of how to successfully develop and sustain projects that change people’s lives and the environment they rely on.