Author Archives: Jeff Kisling

I discovered early in life that I am an adrenaline junkie.  Going up against the Selective Service System as a draft resister was an early clue.  Then the years working in Neonatal Intensive Care, and especially the intense situations in … Continue reading →

Mind maps are a visual tool to help organize how you think about a subject.  The are like an outline, but also show the relationships or connections between parts of the subject.  A number of (many free) mind mapping software … Continue reading →

What is the peace movement to make of Donald Trump’s position that the United States should get out of the world police/nation building business, reported in this article in The Nation:   Donald Trump Could Be the Military-Industrial Complex’s Worst Nightmare:   … Continue reading →

What could be more outrageous than creating an environment that allows private businesses to profit, hugely, from the process of incarceration?  Who could not know that would result in significant efforts on the part of the prison industry to encourage … Continue reading →

As described here, Friends in Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative) have wanted to collect stories of Quakers and their lives, to preserve and to share.  The Quaker Story Project website categorized the stories so they could be searched by person, subject, … Continue reading →

My friend Derek Glass is too busy developing digital community tools like Sustainability Scout to do much writing, but he gave me permission to share the following from a recent email message. This is how we make progress, one story … Continue reading →

Some new parts of Sustainability Scout are ready.  Sustainability Scout was created by Derek and Katie Glass, Glass Web Projects, to aggregate the blogs of organizations and people involved in sustainable efforts in Indiana.  This has become a digital community building … Continue reading →

Changes These are difficult times for all of us.  All kinds of changes have occurred in my lifetime, all over the world.  I think we sometimes forget that the rate of change is accelerating.  We used to have more time … Continue reading →