Chris Forman

What can a 1980s elementary school custodian teach us about life in a pandemic / post-pandemic world? A lot, actually... Growing up is a challenge Especially for an effervescent, full of life, live for the moment curly-haired boy who wants to soak up everything life offers-but whose teachers have other priorities. Hi, I'm Chris Forman. Four decades later, the words above still describe me (minus the hair). I admit, I was a handful. Usually mischievous. Occasionally charming. And nearly always misunderstood. With dozens of adults working at my elementary school, only one understood me. Mr. Clifferd, the school custodian. I often visited his office (the boiler room). He always knew just what to say and how to lift me up. Mr. C.'s lessons shaped my life. Today, we find ourselves in a chaotic world. Social ills run rampant. Climate change threatens our survival. A global pandemic shook the world. And yet the quiet wisdom of a long-retired custodian echoes across the decades with profundity. His message remains more relevant today than ever before. Join me for a joyful journey through my childhood. You'll meet some mean teachers and a bunch of my crazy (and oddly named) classmates. Best of all, you'll meet the amazing Mr. C. and learn from this common man's uncommon wisdom. We'll share a few tears. And have lots of laughs. (Take it from a kid whose antics earned him a permanent home in the principal's office). I can't wait for you to meet Mr. C. You're going to love him. And he just might change your life, too.

How we can harness cutting-edge biology and manufacturing to fight waste and pollution. In Nature, there is little chemical waste; nearly every atom is a resource to be utilized by organisms, ensuring that all the available matter remains in a perpetual cycle. By contrast, human systems of energy production and manufacturing are linear; the end product is waste. In Brave Green World, Chris Forman and Claire Asher show what our linear systems can learn from the efficient circularity of ecosystems. They offer an unblinkered yet realistic and positive vision of a future in which we can combine biology and manufacturing to solve our central problems of waste and pollution.

The world has irrevocably changed. We stand at a crossroads. The power to shape the future is in our hands. Chris Forman's A New Way To Live issues a powerful clarion call for humanity to find a new approach to living together on planet earth in the wake of COVID-19. Despite widespread wishes to cling to the past, life is not going back to "the way it was" before the pandemic. Will the pandemic be another blow that fractures and divides us? Or will we let it serve as a wake-up call to find our way back to truly sustainable lifestyles and relationships? With solutions rooted in balance, empathy and love, Chris Forman challenges readers to usher in a new way of being-an evolution of humanity. Our future as a species is at stake. Will we heed the call, and rise to a wise and enlightened way of life? If we embrace Chris Forman's proposed path, we have the opportunity to make it out of this challenge stronger than ever. This can be our breakthrough moment-our opportunity to usher in a positive transformation for all of humanity. Are you ready to be part of the solution? Let A New Way To Live serve as your roadmap.