The World Has Always Been Ending
There is all this talk and discussion about the end of hope, about better not having children. The argument goes…
To Earn – Money and Happiness
Money is not a basic human need. Its relationship to happiness is complicated. It has become so important, however, that…
To Have (Enough) – Valuing Things
One of the basic things that make happy, no matter how anti-consumerist we may want to be out of environmental…
Happinesses: Pleasure, Life Satisfaction, the Good Life
In spite of all the talk, let alone all the books, about happiness, we usually aren’t too clear about the…
at home and human…
Or, How the Anthropocene Will Not be Good or Bad…
To Do – Getting Active
One easy but evident problem with happiness: We see it as a state. It is an action. Or at least,…
To Be: Life, First
Before we can even talk about happiness, we need to acknowledge existence. It’s such an obvious issue, it hardly seems…
The “Things” That Make Happy
There are some essentials which are things. Maybe things could make us happier if we saw them differently. Either way,…
The Need for #ecohappy “Positive Ecology”-Approaches
When the threat is as clear as environmental destruction and climate change seem to the eco-alarmed… the aspirational may be…
Thoughts around Climate Strike
From one school girl’s lonely but headstrong protest, the school strike for climate has grown into a worldwide movement. There…