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Dave is looking for more speaking date in San Diego area for his talk the NEW NORMAL
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The talk in San Diego is about The New Normal, which presents 33 points of intervention in systems from agriculture to energy to consumerism, to create a "social tsunami" that will shift our culture away from deadlines and dying species, toward lifelines and living wealth.


Welcome to my redesigned website. I hope you find useful ideas and maybe even inspiration here. For the last twenty-five years I’ve been exploring and promoting opportunities for making our way of life less destructive, more affordable and more satisfying. As a researcher, practitioner and “traveling salesperson” for a more sustainable lifestyle, I’ve examined the way we eat; where we choose to live; what policies we support; what we manufacture and buy; how we take care of our health; what we do in our spare time.
I’ve written 10 books and produced a handful of TV programs about sustainable communities, agriculture, transportation, restoration of nature, consumerism, energy… all things sustainable. Now, in my senior years, I’m trying to identify and report synergies among these systems. My goal is to create a future scenario in which Americans can experience twice the satisfaction for half the resources.  That’s what the The New Normal is about. In that book I wrote, “Until we change the direction of our plug-and-play, no-effort-required lifestyle, we’ll continue to be an endangered as well as dangerous civilization. We’ll continue to generate game-ending carbon dioxide as we convert ecosystems to must-have, easily broken gadgets and nutrition-free, processed food.”
“How can we become a mature civilization when our practices destroy the source of our wealth?”

It’s clear that Americans in particular are tethered to a lifestyle support system of highways, pipes, wires, airwaves, lines of credit, and most importantly, an obsolete way of thinking. How can we become a mature civilization when our practices destroy the source of our wealth: the living systems and climatic stability that lie beneath the bottom line of our obsessive-compulsive, often fraudulent economy?  In our times, we seem trapped between two very powerful forces: institution and intuition. A harnessed, institutional mindset says, “Full speed ahead – look what we’ve created!” But our intuition — with the full force of evolution behind it — cautions, “Slow down – look what we are destroying!” Intuition counsels us to rewrite the instructions — reprogram our cultural software — so our world can be more secure, stable, and sustainable.
We need to more carefully observe the way nature works: In their most mature, climax stages, biological systems have learned how to optimize diversity, resourcefulness, and resilience, weaving partnerships among species to make use of each scrap of resource and each niche.  In the new era, we’ll b