Erik Foley

It's been thirty years since I first stepped into the ring as a student activist in the Pacific Northwest. Back then, it was the Endangered Species Act-protected spotted owl versus the logging industry that fed my family. Now, in 2026, I see a familiar tremor in the hands

COP30, the first COP held in the Amazon (and perhaps the first featuring a small fire…), ended November 22 in Belém, Brazil.  A client will soon ask: "Should we be paying attention to what emerged from COP30?" Sharing my notes on what I will be prepared to say.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) challenges us to consider that some things are worth thinking about, while others are not. I want to suggest that if we choose to use AI to replace the necessary effort of human learning, it will make us dumber and co-dependent. And if we allow it to

An excerpt from a recent keynote in New York (2018) "Sustainable development" was born from a historic moment and a warning to humanity.  The concept was forged within the 900 days of global listening sessions, the Brundtland Commission held on five continents in the 1980s.  Post WW II,

Build your day like you'd build a wetland. Only then will the wildlife of ideas flourish and the water run clean. I've struggled mightily with this. My days too often were ending with me on the brink of a nervous breakdown. As the saying goes, "

Undigested information. Clogged thoughts. Bloated brain. You can see it in the eyes exposed to too many words, images, memes, videos: distant, distressed, and drained. You just went to the all-you-can-eat Internet giga shop or drank mightily of the social media fountain. I confess: I don't know what