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The variation is dwindling. All cities looks the same. All stores laid out the same way. Food is predictable, neither good nor bad. Stores are filled with variations of the same stuff. Just stuff. Car design is unimaginative. Different color, same shape. Music, Decoration, Style??? Yawn.... How did we get here?

Why do institutions seem to be out-of-sync with current needs? And why is it that no matter what we do the process is always far more complicated and slow than it should be? On the surface human behavior looks extraordinarily complex, with unique expressions for each individual, family, group, population, culture now and through time. But behind it all, at the very lowest level, there is a little known biologically natural system responsible. We barely notice it, in fact we h

These areas have shown their overwhelming value in re-establishing a healthy environment where the natural world can recover and thrive. More significantly, one that has positive impact on the immediate areas that surround.

Communities are our strongest and most important building blocks of a healthy society.

The truth is that, despite appearances to the contrary, most definitions of sustainable are not all that different once you look behind the jargon. The common yet often implicit theme being expressed through them all is a simple question – what happens if it isn’t sustainable? That consistent thread is very familiar to those who have studied archaeology.

This post is dedicated to a topic that frequently gets overlooked and is often under-considered – the absence of something. Very often, it’s just as important for us to know where something isn’t happening as it is to know where something does occur. So important, in fact, that it’s crucial to understand that zero isn’t really defined as the absence of something – it is actually the presence of nothing.

The whole discipline of archaeology, and the reason for all of our methods, is geared towards finding ways to collect as many forms of data possible to understand and fully describe events in the past. All of human behavior leaves something behind, and the questions are how can we find it and how much of it can we collect? Curiously, the reason why we do these admittedly strange things is exactly why the corporate world really needs more archaeologists…