Sunshocked

Vital systems, from the U.S. economy to the global food market, are failing all at once… according to the “glass is half empty” crowd anyway. The “glass is half full of yummy lemonade” perspective is that we’re merely going through some market corrections.

With the dropping price and rising efficiency of nuclear power, I could no longer resist its amazing potential. By nuclear, of course, I’m referring to the fusion process deep within the sun generating spectacular amounts of energy that are then projected to Earth as sunshine. That other stuff is frickin’ scary.

Last Thursday, before a packed house at the Commonwealth Club in downtown San Francisco, Adam Werbach fulfilled his promise to return after declaring Environmentalism dead and share a vision for what might emerge from the ashes of Green. Friends of Roy G. Biv will not be surprised.

Metaphors allow us to give meaning to the ever increasing amounts of information in our lives while maintaining sanity and—hopefully—dignity. But what happens when our metaphors are wrong?