This is the first Substack piece of yours that I have read. I came upon you today via an older blog about reskilling and the Green Hands Initiative. At that time, it was "too soon." Whatever happened with that? I am here to read your recent thoughts.
Thank you so much, Katharine! About Green Hand: yes. Back in about 2012 I shared about the Green Hand concept with community-building consultant Laird Schaub. His response? "Good idea. We're not there yet." So over the years the Green Hand Blog turned into a meditation on social conditions and social conditioning that seem at times to discourage pro-social impulses, and what's to be done about that. And although earlier this summer I did an interview on Green Hand for https://www.resilience.org, more commonly I have found it more helpful and more satisfying to simply give people actual lettuce plants (for example) than to write words about it. Still, the larger inquiry continues. Welcome!
This is the first Substack piece of yours that I have read. I came upon you today via an older blog about reskilling and the Green Hands Initiative. At that time, it was "too soon." Whatever happened with that? I am here to read your recent thoughts.
Thank you so much, Katharine! About Green Hand: yes. Back in about 2012 I shared about the Green Hand concept with community-building consultant Laird Schaub. His response? "Good idea. We're not there yet." So over the years the Green Hand Blog turned into a meditation on social conditions and social conditioning that seem at times to discourage pro-social impulses, and what's to be done about that. And although earlier this summer I did an interview on Green Hand for https://www.resilience.org, more commonly I have found it more helpful and more satisfying to simply give people actual lettuce plants (for example) than to write words about it. Still, the larger inquiry continues. Welcome!