Sven's Blog Posts

The emails came in immediately. “What, I’m no longer a Sadge?,” one friend inquired. My facebook wall lit up with cries for help ranging from the slightly perplexed “what's up with the new zodiac sign dates” to the borderline despairing “Sven, can you help make sense of this new zodiac calendar? I'm hearing so many different things about how it may only apply to people born after a certain year, etc., I'm confused.” As I hunkered down in front of my computer after a nice afternoon on planet Earth, it hit me like a brick: the world as we know it had come to an end.

I recently interviewed author, visionary teacher and healer Sandra Ingerman about how to tackle the difficult yet enormously important challenge of integrating the spiritual issues of our time with the ecological crises we’re facing.

This is a piece I wrote that got a lot of attention on the front page of daily kos, regarding the comparisons of President Obama with Hitler that have been cropping up in the mainstream media lately.

One of the most poignant lines I remember from An Inconvenient Truth was Al Gore's concern that in light of the problem's magnitude there was a danger that people might go straight from denial to despair.

A good friend of mine who is a backyard beekeeper in Oakland invited me a couple of weeks ago to meet his fellow urban farmer Novella Carpenter for a reading of her new book, Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer.

There's a lot of buzz these days regarding December 21, 2012, the mysterious and mythical date in the Mayan calendar on which either a great shift is supposed to happen or the world is going to end, depending on who is explaining.