by landscapewanderer | May 19, 2024 | Culture, Environmentalism, Spirituality
This is just a note to let you know that I’ll be taking a break from the Deliberative Landscapes Wanderer. As I hinted in my previous post, most of my spare time these days is dedicated to writing fiction. But much of my creative writing grapples with the same...
by landscapewanderer | Apr 6, 2024 | Culture, Environmentalism
In my recent mental wanderings in this blog, I’ve been exploring why, for those of us working for sustainability, it is crucial to take a long-term view, and I’ve been asking what it means to think about, plan for, and prioritize the future (e.g., “Deep...
by landscapewanderer | Dec 26, 2023 | Environmentalism, Working in Sustainable Development
Envision the world you would like to see Back in the 1990s, visioning was all the rage and it seemed that every organization needed to have a vision statement. Being a fashionable guy, I participated in that. As a facilitator, I conducted workshops aimed at helping...
by landscapewanderer | Sep 5, 2023 | Environmentalism, Working in Sustainable Development
You may be familiar with the parable of the three bricklayers, but in case not, here it is in brief. A traveler came upon a construction site and saw a bricklayer at work. He asked the bricklayer what he was doing. “I’m laying bricks,” the man replied. The traveler...
by landscapewanderer | Jul 18, 2023 | Culture, Environmentalism
Structural change and individual behavior change Social action for sustainability and the protection of nature often aims, in one way or another, at changes to social structures. Whether the actions are led by researchers, activists, or technocrats, the goal of...
by landscapewanderer | May 23, 2022 | Environmentalism, Justice, Values
The house where I grew up was perpetually catching on fire. It wasn’t all bad. Although I fought with my brothers and sisters sometimes, we really had a beautiful family. Sunday dinner was especially nice. Dad always asked each of us what we did that week. If one...
by landscapewanderer | Apr 19, 2022 | Land Governance, Values
There are multiple factors that influence the way we as human beings see the world. Education, culture, and particular disciplines, professions, and institutions all provide us with narratives, conceptual frameworks, and biases. These become lenses through which see...
by landscapewanderer | Feb 22, 2022 | Working in Sustainable Development
The pandemic has been driving many of us stir-crazy, although obviously it goes far beyond the usual kind of stir-crazy. The pandemic, and its lockdowns and travel restrictions, and some people’s theories about the pandemic and about the government’s response to it,...
by landscapewanderer | Jan 13, 2022 | Land Governance, Rangelands
Regular readers of this blog will have noticed that I’ve been silent for several months. I’m hoping that in the new year I can get back to a regular monthly schedule. In an earlier post, I argued that formal land tenure systems—including policies and laws aimed at...
by landscapewanderer | Jul 2, 2021 | Culture, Land Governance, Resilience, Values
The environmental crises and the coming regime shifts When the biodiversity crisis, global climate change, degradation of soils, and the other dimensions of environmental destruction now unfolding are viewed together, it is often suggested that our civilization is...
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