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This reworked site moves from a focus on limits to a focus on sustainability. It places more emphasis on the human factor as an instigator in environmental change. The following are some highlights:

1. Free will vs. Social aspects of our lives: We are connected, but individuals have the ability to choose. Maintainig the social/individual balance is delicate and ongoing.
2. Sense and Perception: Human perception is limited by the five senses of sight, taste, touch, hearing and smell. Because this is all that we can experience, we may assume our perceptions are valid. However,we can only see from a scale of about 10^{-2 cm} to about 10⁵ cm, yet the universe exists on a scale of 10^-28cm to 10³³cm. Learning to understand what goes on at these different scales and how different properties emerge as scale increases can help us how in our approach to our everyday world.
3. Response to our sight: We are wired to respond to what we see. Thus looking at the right feedback, day after day, can help keep us going in the right direction
4. Response to our emotions: We also remain emotional beings. Despite what our rational sense tells us, in the end we often act based on how well it "sits" with us, perhaps a sum of all we see, hear think and observe.
5. Intellectual/Spiritual: We are spiritual/intellectual beings. Despite the fact that science tells us much about how the world works, it cannot go beyond the current reach of its instruments. It can't provide us with meaning. That is something that must be left for others.
6. Anticipation: As new situations develop and as time moves on, we need to observe, absorb, reflect on and make necessary changes to new circumstances. The world of tomorrow may be different than the world of today and may require different strategies. Just as an army reacts to the enemies current and anticipated future positions, so must we react to the world's current and anticipated future scenarios. We can't act based on the world of forty years ago. We need to live and act in the world of today and prepare for the world of tomorrow.