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The 52:52:52 project, launching both on this site and on social media in early 2024 will help you address 52 issues with 52 responses over 52 weeks.

A Mundane Comedy is Dominic Kelleher's new book, which will be published in mid 2024. The introduction is available here and further extracts will appear on this site and on social media in the coming months.

This site addresses what's changing, in our own lives, in our organisations, and in wider society. You'll learn about key changes across more than 150 areas, ranging from ageing and time, through nature and animals, to kindness and love...and very much else inbetween.

Halcyon's aim is to help you reflect on how you can better deal with related change in your own life.

Climate

Identifying the climate challenge for the private sector

A recent study into adapting to climate change showed that it is no longer an issue for governments to resolve alone.  The private sector needs to be more involved in making decisions too.  Natural resource constraints, manufacturing or logistical interruptions, and financial or economic crises mean the private sector has to take action.

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No more prizes now for forecasting the rain; only prizes for building the Ark - Don Beck

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My position on the climate is to avoid releasing pollutants into the atmosphere, regardless of current expert opinion. Climate experts, like banking risk managers, have failed us in the past in foreseeing long-term damage. This is an extension of my general belief: "Do not disturb a complex system." We do not know the consequences of our actions (this idea also makes me anti-war), and I have explicitly stated the need to leave the planet the way we got it - Nassim Taleb

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By pumping vast amounts of warming gases into the atmosphere, we are creating a new era: the Anthropocene, in which man makes the weather. There is an imminent danger of it bursting beyond these safe parameters, and bringing about a return to the violent, volatile variations that prevented our ancestors from progressing beyond spears and sticks - Johann Hari, http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-ha…

Imagining Europe run by Sahara sun...

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A new scientific report claims that every two weeks, the sun pours more energy onto the surface of Earth than we use from all sources in an entire year. It is an inexhaustible powerhouse that has remained largely untapped for human energy needs: but that may soon change in a big way.

Preliminary designs in a German report show electricity reaching Europe via 20 high-voltage direct-current power lines. Trans-Mediterranean links will cross from Morocco to Spain, from Algeria to France, from Tunisia to Italy; from Libya to Greece; and from Egypt to Turkey via Cyprus.