Jim Brumm: Long-Term Thinking for a Short-Sighted World
Jim Brumm
- Location
- Santa Rosa, California, USA
- Birthday
- April 12
- Bio
- http://www.longtermthinking.net
For the past several years Jim has undertaken an in-depth study of the ills facing societies today and in the past, and realized they have a common theme: a lack of long-term thinking, something little understood and rarely discussed directly though it has plagued humanity for thousands of years. He is currently writing a book titled Long-Term Thinking for a Short-Sighted World.
A native of California, Jim Brumm has been a writer, editor, and magazine publisher for nearly 25 years. The father of two sons, Jim also wrote a popular newspaper column in the Napa Valley Register for seven years on the subject of fatherhood. He rides a Vespa.
Jim Brumm created this blog to provide a forum for articles, ideas, and discussion on the subject of long-term thinking.
In 2006, Jim released a music CD, titled These September Days, comprised of all-original music and lyrics. http://www.cdbaby.com/jimbrumm
MY RECENT POSTS
- The Clock of The Long Now
August 01, 2009 07:36PM - The Clock of The Long Now
August 01, 2009 07:36PM - How My Vespa Changed My Life
August 01, 2009 06:45PM - How My Vespa Changed My Life
August 01, 2009 06:45PM - Peak Oil: The Party's Nearly
Over
August 01, 2009 05:39PM
Jim Brumm's Links
The Clock of The Long Now
Around the world there are hundreds of
thousands of grass-roots non-governmental organizations (NGOs)
which have been formed to help on thousands of issues, to, as
environmentalist and entrepreneur / Read full post »
The Clock of The Long Now
Around the world there are hundreds of
thousands of grass-roots non-governmental organizations (NGOs)
which have been formed to help on thousands of issues, to, as
environmentalist and entrepreneur / Read full post »
How My Vespa Changed My Life
For years I watched them go by on the road. They would appear at an intersection or pass me going the other way, the riders looking somehow freer—cooler perhaps—than the drivers around them, like they were in traffic like the rest of us, but not of it.
How My Vespa Changed My Life
For years I watched them go by on the road. They would appear at an intersection or pass me going the other way, the riders looking somehow freer—cooler perhaps—than the drivers around them, like they were in traffic like the rest of us, but not of it.
Peak Oil: The Party's Nearly Over
Peak Oil. It’s a term we’re hearing more and more these days. It refers to that point in time when we have passed the halfway mark in extracting the available oil still in the ground. At that point we will be going down the oily, slippery slope toward extracting the last… Read full post »
Peak Oil: The Party's Nearly Over
Peak Oil. It’s a term we’re hearing more and more these days. It refers to that point in time when we have passed the halfway mark in extracting the available oil still in the ground. At that point we will be going down the oily, slippery slope toward extracting the last… Read full post »
The Lost Art of Community
We worship individualism in our society. This emphasis on the individual has caused many of us to insulate ourselves from each other and created a loss of community. America has long promoted the belief/myth that “anyone who works hard can pull themselves up by the bootstraps” and achieve… Read full post »
New Kids on the Block
It has been said that when humans first encountered the world of quantum physics, that mysterious through-the-looking-glass domain where things refuse to follow the known Newtonian rules, it was the first time that we had come across something that we could see, but that our brains were unable… Read full post »
New Kids on the Block
It has been said that when humans first encountered the world of quantum physics, that mysterious through-the-looking-glass domain where things refuse to follow the known Newtonian rules, it was the first time that we had come across something that we could see, but that our brains were unable… Read full post »
Greenwashing
(green’wash’) – verb: the act of misleading consumers regarding the environmental practices of a company or the environmental benefits of a product or service.
Greenwashing
(green’wash’) – verb: the act of misleading consumers regarding the environmental practices of a company or the environmental benefits of a product or service.
The Lost Art of Community
We worship individualism in our society. This emphasis on the individual has caused many of us to insulate ourselves from each other and created a loss of community. America has long promoted the belief/myth that “anyone who works hard can pull themselves up by the bootstraps†and achieve success… Read full post »
The Lost Art of Community
We worship individualism in our society. This emphasis on the individual has caused many of us to insulate ourselves from each other and created a loss of community. America has long promoted the belief/myth that “anyone who works hard can pull themselves up by the bootstraps†and achieve success… Read full post »
We are a part of the past AND the future
Though it is
where we live and what we all we know firsthand, the fact remains
that there is nothing special about
now.
We are a part of the past AND the future
Though it is where we live and what we all we know firsthand, the fact remains that there is nothing special about now. Now is but the current moment in an unbroken, seamless stream of time, which cares nothing about the problems, the mores, the beliefs or the inhabitants of any… Read full post »
Carrotmob
In a refreshing twist to the policy of
boycotting businesses that are acting irresponsibly, a new
organization, Carrotmob, offers an alternative.
Carrotmob
In a refreshing twist to the policy of
boycotting businesses that are acting irresponsibly, a new
organization, Carrotmob, offers an alternative.
The Borneo Cat Drop
“Unlike many other laws, the laws of nature are all strictly enforced.â€
Ashleigh Brilliant
The Borneo Cat Drop
“Unlike many other laws, the laws of nature are all strictly enforced.â€
Ashleigh Brilliant
Three important considerations for decision making
Here are three major considerations that we must keep in mind when we evaluate a decision with a long term perspective:
Three important considerations for decision making
Here are three major considerations that we must keep in mind when we evaluate a decision with a long term perspective:
Short-term job loss cannot be the only test for policy change
As we watch President Obama try to effect change in
Washington on major issues like health care, energy, and economic
reform, and see the foot dragging and resistance from
special-interest groups and lobbyists, it's obvious that now is the
time we must begin to change our thinking and tak… Read full post »
Long-Term Thinking for a Short-Sighted World
“Future considerations should dwarf the
present—the same way unborn humans vastly outnumber the
living, the same way the accumulative never-born of an endangered
species should loom over the debate over its
protection.” Stewart Brand, The Long Now Foundation.
Welcome to… Read full post »
Kerry Lauerman
Joan Walsh
Salon.com