by Herb Simmens | May 21, 2020 | Planetphila, Uncategorized
The planet is in trouble. And so are we. Lots. (This is where I would list the multitude of intersecting crises we face. But you already know of them or you wouldn’t be here.) That’s why I created Planetphilia. Because of my love – and yours – for the...
by Herb Simmens | Apr 4, 2022 | Planetphila, Uncategorized
Announcing the Planetphilia Climate Fellows program. Applications welcome! Applications from young and young at heart climate activists, entrepreneurs, academics, artists, students, writers and dreamers are being accepted for a year long online program of individual...
by Herb Simmens | May 20, 2020 | Planetphila, Uncategorized
Many issues, dilemmas, challenges and opportunities call out for urgent and strategic exploration. Of particular interest to me are the following questions and conundrums, as illustrated by the bolded words and phrases contained in my book. Appliance Euthanasia /...
by Herb Simmens | May 19, 2020 | Planetphila, Uncategorized
The COViD-19 crisis has shown in stark terms the fragility of our society, the divisiveness of our culture, and the lack of agreement on even our ways of knowing and being. Mainstream medicine appears helpless and often clueless against this novel virus just as it is...
by Herb Simmens | Feb 18, 2019 | Uncategorized
A climate vision for Montgomery CountyIt’s January 1, 2030 Montgomery County, the most populous county in Maryland, was recognized today – Day 1 of the International Decade for Emergency Climate Action – by President Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Congress and...
by Herb Simmens | Jun 26, 2017 | Uncategorized
Today’s New York Times had an article entitled Carbon in Atmosphere Is Rising, Even as Emissions Stabilize, that addressed what is literally the most important unknown facing the seven plus billion Homo Sapiens and the hundreds of billions of other life forms...
by Herb Simmens | Jun 25, 2017 | Uncategorized
Most close observers of the dynamics of climate change recognize that the human mind is both the instigator of climate chaos, and paradoxically both the only hope and biggest obstacle to breaking the climate curve. Our presumed evolutionary bias for immediate...
by Herb Simmens | May 15, 2017 | Uncategorized
The climate change emergency the United States and the world faces requires a generously funded initiative, created and managed by the civic sector, to transition to a near zero carbon economy within a generation. This effort should be led by the most prominent...
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