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Strongly recommend reading “Power for All” by Julie Battilana () and Tiziana Casciaro ( ) for an understanding of power in relationships, organizations, and society. Their research and case studies are riveting, demonstrate moral agency, and show how power can be held in service of the collective.

Collective power is like chainmail armor — a mesh of thousands of interlocking metal rings — connections and the underlying softness that withstood the slashes of the sword until the collective body can enact change.

Looking for a new documentary to watch? and have woven together a powerful look at all that biggest threat to life on this planet — the water contamination, PFAS, killing of wales, destruction of coral reefs and mountain slopes, millions of war casualties, and the largest source of climate emissions that aren’t being talked about. The truth is hard but shown with love.

The U.S. military is the single largest consumer of fossil fuels on the planet, using nearly 270,000 barrels of oil a day, amounting to 55 million metric tons of CO2 annually. It would take the average American driver over 40 years to burn as much fuel as a single flight of a Boeing Pegasus.

After watching Abby Martin and Mike Prysner’s new documentary, Earth’s Greatest Enemy, the need to address the system that is the military industrial complex becomes strikingly clear.

What was powerful is that what was shown calls on people not to turn on each other but to think more strategically about how to get unstuck from something that ultimately threatens life on the planet.

Truly inspired.