Adaptive muddling

Summary – Understanding the need for localization is not the same as knowing what steps to take and how to take them. To respond well to the existential threats of energy and resource descent, global heating,

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Attention Restoration

Restoring the capacity to direct attention: A pre-condition for civil and environmental stewardship behavior

Listen: Interview on mental vitality and localization (Radio EcoShock)

Directed attention is a foundational mental resource that allows us to voluntarily manage the focus and direction of our thoughts and to regulate our emotions and behavior.

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Slow change for a durable transition

Summary – Some people despair at the unsustainability of human behavior; however, such despair may come from taking far too narrow and pessimistic a view of human nature. Behavior change does happen but lasting change happens only slowly.

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Localization: A brief definition

Summary – Definitions are slippery things, they can as easily misdirect thought as enlighten it. This is a tentative definition of what localization involves. It is evolving, particularly as there occur more tangible instances of its application.

Localization is a process of behavioral and social change focused on localities.

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Restoring mental vitality in an endangered world

Summary – Responding to climate disruption and resource descent requires behavior change on a massive scale. Many skills are needed to respond well to the coming downshift but none more central than the abilities to plan and manage our behavior,

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Localization: Premise

Summary – To survive on this planet, we must prepare for a drawn-out yet persistent descent in overall resource availability. This emerging biophysical reality is inevitable. It is not altered by debate or market forces, nor will denial or inattention make it disappear.

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