We tend to project our insecurities onto others. We see in others what we fear about ourselves. These projections can be our greatest teachers.
Author: Peter Schulte
Peter Schulte is the founder and editor of Kindling. Peter is also Senior Digital Engagement Associate for the Pacific Institute and the UN Global Compact's CEO Water Mandate, connecting businesses to sustainable water practices. Peter holds a B.S. in Conservation and Resource Studies and a B.A. in Comparative Literature from University of California, Berkeley, and an M.B.A. in Sustainable Systems from Pinchot University. He lives in Bellingham, WA, USA with his wife, son, and cat.
How ranked choice voting can strengthen our democracy
Ranked choice voting (RCV) describes voting systems that allow voters to rank candidates in order of preference, and then uses those rankings to elect candidates with a broad base of support.
New Zealand passes historic bill to ensure pay equity between men and women
New Zealand’s parliament has unanimously passed the Equal Pay Amendment Bill that ensures that women in historically underpaid female-dominated industries receive the same remuneration as men in different but equal-value work.
U.S. FCC approves three-digit suicide prevention hotline – 988
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission unanimously approved the 9-8-8 suicide prevention hotline. Within 18 months, all Americans will be able to call this number to seek help if they are at risk of suicide.
“Modern” humans
For millennia, humans have had capabilities and capacities that proto-humans could never have imagined. These are the very traits that have propelled humanity into its dominant position in the world today.
Atlassian to build world’s largest hybrid timber tower in Sydney
The 40-story building will feature a steel exoskeleton complemented by Mass Timber Construction (MTC). The new features will cut daily energy consumption and the carbon embodied in its construction by 50%.
Stop expecting a just world
The world isn’t supposed to be anything. It is what it is.
Renewables pass fossil fuels as European Union’s biggest source of electricity
Ultimately, this significant shift in electricity generation caused a 23% drop in carbon dioxide emissions, a critical step forward in the fight against climate change.
Proto-humans
proto-humans had many features and behaviors that would be very familiar to all us. But they did not yet have whatever makes us humans human.
Ocean Voyages Institute completes the largest open ocean clean-up in history
In late June 2020, the Ocean Voyages Institute’s SV/KWAI returned from a 48-day journey to recover plastic waste from the North Pacific Gyre. It’s 103 ton haul of fishing nets and consumer plastics has made their voyage that largest ever ocean plastic cleanup, having more than doubled the Institute’s 2019 haul.
