The African philosophical concept of Ubuntu—"I am because we are"—captures this relational dimension of human flourishing. Desmond Tutu explained Ubuntu as opposite to Descartes'...
Introduction: The Luther of Medicine
In the tumultuous heart of the European Renaissance, a period of profound upheaval in art, religion, and politics, there strode...
An Exploration of Transformative Practices for Personal and Collective Flourishing
In an era marked by unprecedented global connectivity yet profound personal isolation, the ancient virtues...
Introduction: The Sage of Los Angeles
Manly Palmer Hall (1901-1990) stands as one of the twentieth century's most prolific and influential esoteric scholars, whose work...
Investigation into the multiverse of Nature Spirits, Devas, Beings of the Subtle Realms, is an ongoing fascination and project of mine stretching back several...
Abstract
This essay explores the potential existence of angels through the lens of multiverse theories and the philosophical concept of poiesis—the process of bringing-forth into...
By Kevin Parker(inspired by Russell Conwell's original lecture)
"You already have within you everything you need to turn your life into a masterpiece."— Deepak Chopra
Introduction:...
Introduction
Alan Wilson Watts (1915-1973) emerged as one of the most influential interpreters of Eastern philosophy for Western audiences during the twentieth century. His unique...
Introduction: The Double-Edged Sword of Modern Life
In 1907, Leo Baekeland unveiled Bakelite, the world's first synthetic plastic, heralding an era of unprecedented material innovation....
GREEN CITIES SERIES | ARTICLE 10
In 2017, Shenzhen became the first city in the world to operate a fully electric public bus fleet. In 2019, its entire taxi fleet followed. These are not incremental improvements or pilot schemes — they are structural transformations, achieved at a speed...
Clean energy is booming, yet emissions keep breaking records. A clear-eyed 2026 look at climate action—what's working, what's failing, and what it will take.
GREEN CITIES SERIES | ARTICLE 8
Every Sunday, Bogotá returns the streets to its people. That act — repeated for fifty years, in a city of nine million at 2,600 metres above sea level, in a country still reckoning with decades of violence — is both a practical...
GREEN CITY SERIES| ARTICLE 11
How river daylighting changed the argument in South Korea’s capital — and why the harder work of a green city lies beyond one celebrated stream
Few urban projects have entered the global planning imagination as forcefully as Seoul’s restoration of the Cheonggyecheon. The removal...
GREEN CITIES SERIES | ARTICLE 9
For fifty years, urban planners have travelled to Curitiba to study what happened when a young architect-mayor decided that a city was not, fundamentally, for cars. What they found was real, was replicable, and was also — when examined carefully — more...
This is an updated and revised version of a piece that I published last year. Regrettably, all is not well in the golden valley of apricots when it comes to climate change reversal, it just keeps getting hotter and the weather wilder. All is not lost though...
In May 2026, the international climate arena presents a striking paradox. It is alive, highly active, and structurally transformed, yet it remains profoundly underpowered relative to the physical systems it seeks to govern. The institutional architecture established by the Paris Agreement has not collapsed; on the contrary,...
GREEN CITIES SERIES | ARTICLE 6
London has done something that most cities only talk about: it has used road pricing to change behaviour at scale, and it has used air quality regulation to drive a measurable improvement in the health of nine million people. But the city...
How Norway’s capital turned climate policy into budgets, procurement, and quieter streets — and why even Oslo is not yet a finished green city
Standfirst
Oslo is often invoked as proof that urban decarbonisation can move from aspiration to administration. The Norwegian capital has electrified large parts of its...
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