Bio
A cross-discipline creative and serial entrepreneur, I work to promote green business and sustainable solutions, and the implementation of new efficiencies through better practices to drive perpetual revenues. I write to elucidate the truths behind the assumptions which are the basis of our modern world.
The basic truth is that “we are practicing death as a way of life™.” The very future of civilization is unclear. That’s because the economy of man is at odds with the economy of nature – but they are not fundamentally incompatible. Viewing both economies through a lens of perpetual practice can bring them into alignment.
I aim to help corporate, campus and enterprise to integrate The Practice of Perpetuity™ in their vision: business can make the necessary changes to solve nearly all our problems, but business will consistently commit to those changes only when they can view them through the lens of profit. Profitable sustainability is perpetual motion.
Some claim that prior civilizations, previous cultures (Mostly all exterminated by the colonial imperative of empire - beginning long before the Greeks, and continuing now vis-a-vis corporate internationalism under the aegis of globalism, the world bank, and the so-called war against terror.) had managed to live sustainably with an intimate regard for the earth which sustained them. Perhaps. My understanding is that they lived more like enlightened locusts, moving on, not exactly “Westward Ho!,” but ever elsewhere in seasonal circular migrations that allowed the earth to recover from their presence. None of these cultures were scalable. Their pattern within nature only appears sustainable because their numbers never exceeded what their environment could support within the bounds of a natural cull; and that is not what we “moderns” intend in our quest for sustainability.
An autodidact polymath with a science and medical bent, my background spans the gamut from ancient and modern languages; literature and fine arts; to business development and finance. I’ve taught at the college level and on the national seminar circuit. I’ve about 6 books in print now - 3 in a dozen languages.
My latest book is “Sleep or Die: overcome apnea before it overcomes you.” I served as the mentoring co-author on this title, with the inestimable William E. Headapohl, of dot.com and Gateway fame as my co-author. “Mentoring co-author” means that, in the process of building a book based on Will’s years of personal experience and guinea-pig-based research, I mentored one of the brightest minds I’ve known. In the process we not only remained friends but become better at both business and friendship. Sleep or Die” is due late Spring 2012.
Why Apnea?
What’s a Green Guy doing writing a book about everyone else’s sleepless night?
I find that there is a poetic correlation. I lose far too much sleep wondering how we’re going to put our arms around climate catastrophe. So I see the epidemic of undiagnosed apnea as the individual analog for eco-illogical collapse: it’s parallel suffering on both the personal and planetary level, widely denied by nearly all. Apneacs crawl out of bed feeling like they’ve been hit by a truck, unaware that they’ve wakened all night, repeatedly, five or more times each hour, not breathing, their brains literally starved for oxygen. So, too, with the lungs of our fevered planet! The daily loss of flora and fauna goes unnoticed. But just as every apneac teeters towards an early death, all around the world we are choking ourselves right out of existence, all day everyday and in nearly every way. We are losing species and biodiversity at a geologically unprecedented rate, while at the same time we are losing our own selves, working through a daily cloud of tedium after night after night of no sleep.
At the risk of repeating myself, I say “We are practicing death as a way of life™.”
We need to sleep soundly, but we also need to wake up!