El suelo tembló. Aquí te ayudamos a volver a levantarte.

 

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PlanetWise.app Newsletter, Junio 2026, Esp.

El suelo tembló. Aquí te ayudamos a volver a levantarte. 

La semana pasada, el Senado de Puerto Rico propuso dos piezas de legislación para "simplificar" nuestros procesos de desarrollo. La votación está prevista. El resultado, por desgracia, no está en duda.

En ellas, 72 leyes ambientales o de conservación quedan diluidas hasta la irrelevancia. En su mayoría, Leyes de Uso de Suelo que tardaron once años en redactarse. Leyes que protegían la Zona Marítima Terrestre - la franja de costa que nos pertenece a todos desde los tiempos de los Conquistadores. Leyes que preservan el 7% de nuestros bosques, cuando la norma es el 25% y las mejores medidas de conservación exigen el 50%. Todos los recursos naturales importantes están amenazados ahora. Nuestros manglares, que son los viveros del océano y el mejor escudo contra los huracanes que tienen nuestras costas; la región kárstica, que filtra el agua de lluvia que alimenta nuestros acuíferos; nuestras montañas interiores, que albergan cobre y otros minerales y que ahora estarán disponibles para la minería a cielo abierto. Las leyes que prohíben o penalizan las descargas tóxicas en el océano, los ríos y el aire, han sido reducidas a astillas.

132 meses de científicos, líderes comunitarios, abogados y ciudadanos de a pie que se presentaron reunión tras reunión porque creyeron que conservar, aunque fuera una pequeña parte de nuestras riquezas naturales, valía el esfuerzo y la incomodidad, y que nuestro patrimonio le pertenecía a todos, no solo a unos pocos. Una época en que todos nuestros periódicos discutían el análisis de costo-beneficio de mantener un porcentaje muy pequeño de nuestra tierra, aire y costa intactos ante el desarrollo, y de combatir el abuso que enriquece a algunos y enferma a otros, por el mismo pedazo de tierra.

Todo para hacerle espacio a inversionistas extranjeros que buscan poner su dinero fuera del mercado de valores volátil, ciego, e indiferente. Ventas que traerán dinero una sola vez, y que ni siquiera harán mella en la deuda que debemos.

Esto no es gentrificación. La gentrificación es un barrio pobre comprado poco a poco por una clase media que aspira a más. Lo que está ocurriendo aquí es de otra naturaleza completamente. Ciudades enteras arrasadas por multimillonarios en un año, en una isla donde el promedio de ingreso familiar es inferior a $20,000 al año. Por más dura que fue la colonización estadounidense, trajo beneficios simbólicos - infraestructura, atención médica, educación. Esto no trae nada de eso. Solo precios de vivienda tan altos que han dejado a 100,000 familias sin hogar. El gobierno no solo es corrupto. Está robando las únicas cosas de valor que nos quedan - ecológicamente, socialmente y económicamente. El gobierno nos está robando el futuro que nos debe.

Siento los cambios antes de leer los titulares. Lo siento cuando salgo de mi dormitorio con aire acondicionado y el resto de la casa es un horno. Lo siento cuando lleno el tanque del carro y apenas me queda para un sándwich en la deli. Compro comestibles que ahora están tan caros que solo puedo comprar la mitad de lo que compraba en abril. Lo siento cada vez que leo o escucho las noticias. La cantidad de caos que está ocurriendo en el mundo se siente como algo abusivo y deliberado - dirigido a mantener nuestra atención en las guerras y los genocidios detrás de los cuales se esconde una concentración obscena de riqueza en menos y menos manos. Cuando las familias no pueden alimentar a sus hijos, el tejido social comienza a desintegrarse. Si tú también lo estás sintiendo, no te lo estás imaginando. Y no estás solo.

Después de cinco decadas observando cómo los sistemas fallan y las comunidades sobreviven esas fallas, he aprendido que: Los que mejor salen adelante son los que son autosuficientes y están conectados a sus comunidades. Tienen destrezas y pueden arreglar lo que está roto en vez de reemplazarlo. Guardan suficiente efectivo fuera del sistema bancario para sobrevivir un mes si se va la luz. Tienen conocimientos que pueden ayudar a otros en momentos de necesidad, o intercambiarlos por materiales de trueque.

El alza en los precios no es un tropiezo momentáneo. El caos en Washington y en San Juan no es una fase pasajera. Este calor no es un verano temprano. Son señales de una transición difícil, y lo más importante que puedes hacer ahora mismo, hoy, es comenzar a construir una vida que funcione dentro de esa transición, en vez de esperar a que alguien te salve. Esa vida no va a volver.

Así que aquí te dejo la parte práctica.

Para la angustia económica: Deja de comprar cosas que no te alimente, no repare algo roto, o no te enseñe una destreza. Hazlo como estrategia. Cada dólar que no gastas en algo innecesario es un dólar que te compra un mes de independencia. Comienza un sobre con efectivo. Ponle el nombre PRESUPUESTO. Mete $100 cada semana y no lo toques. No te martirices si una semana no puedes. Solo sigue haciéndolo.

Para el calor climático: Tu cuerpo se aclimata más rápido de lo que crees, pero necesita electrolitos, no solo agua. Asi que, añade un poco de sal marina a tu agua o bebe agua de coco. Limita el café, las bebidas energéticas con mucha cafeína y el alcohol antes de salir, ya que aceleran la pérdida de líquidos. Ponte un paño húmedo en las muñecas o alrededor del cuello antes de salir - eso te refresca. Usa protector solar y considera usar un sombrero de ala ancha. Usa parasoles de ventana para evitar que el sol caliente el interior del carro. De hecho, ahora existen "paraguas para carros" que se instalan en el techo y dan sombra dondequiera que estaciones. Ten siempre un abanico de batería que se cargue con un panel solar del tamaño de un tablet. Lleva un abanico de mano para cuando no puedas recargar el abanico a tiempo. Lleva siempre una botella de agua reutilizable - de acero inoxidable - con agua fría.

Para el dolor político: Canalizalo. Cada ley que aprueba la legislatura y que nos arrebata algo del bien común es un recordatorio de que la comunidad es la única manera de combatir este abuso, si la construyes ahora, antes de que la nueva realidad se afinque. Lucha por tus derechos y por el derecho de la naturaleza a existir en todo su biodiversidad. Comprométete políticamente con lo que sabemos que es irremplazable y está siendo amenazado ahora. Empieza conscientemente a hacer todo lo posible para no traer plásticos a tu hogar, y asegúrate de compostar todos los desperdicios de comida. Esa es una de las acciones políticas más poderosas que puedes tomar.

Para el karso, los manglares, los ríos, los océanos, los cielos, las aves y los animales: Estúdialos. Visítalos. Aprende sus nombres. Ámalos. Enséñaselos a tus hijos o nietos. Lucha por ellos. Conserva sus hábitats. Sálvalos. 

Lo que tiene nombre es más difícil de borrar del mapa. Lo que es amado por personas dispuestas a defenderlo es casi imposible de robar.

Por eso exactamente construí PlanetWise.app. Como respuesta a toda una vida de ver repetirse este patrón - cada vez con menos vida, más daño, más leyes ciegas, la comunidad atrapada en impotencia, la larga y dolorosa guerra de desgaste, y la próxima ley que inevitablemente reabre la herida.

El mundo que esperábamos ya no existe. Construyamos uno en el que valga la pena vivir.

Ven y pruebalo, que vale la pena. PlanetWise.app .

Monica Pérez Nevarez Fundadora, PlanetWise.app

AskmeAnything@PlanetWise.app

Newsletter, Junio 2026, Esp.

P.D. Si algo de esto te hizo sentido - reenvíalo a las personas que amas. Para ellas es que estamos construyendo esto.

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The Ground Has Shifted. Here's How to Stand Back Up.

PLANETWISE.APP - JUNE 2026 NEWSLETTER 

Last week, the Puerto Rico Senate proposed two pieces of legislation to "simplify" our development processes. The vote is expected. The outcome, unfortunately, is not in doubt. 

In it, 72 laws are diluted to irrelevance. Most of the Land Use Laws that took eleven years to write. Laws that protected the Zona Marítima Terrestre - the strip of coast that belongs to all of us since the Conquistadors. Laws that preserve 7% of our forests, when the norm is 25% and the best conservation measures require 50%. All important natural resources are threatened now. Our mangroves, which are the ocean's nurseries and the best buffer against hurricanes our coasts have; the karst region, which filters the rainwater that feeds our aquifers; our interior mountains which hold copper and other mineral deposits and will now be available for strip mining or open-pit mining. The laws that outlawed or penalized toxic discharges in the ocean, the rivers, and the air, are now cut up for kindling. 

132 months of scientists, community leaders, lawyers, and ordinary people who showed up to meeting after meeting because they believed that to conserve, even a small little bit of our natural riches, was worth the effort and inconvenience, and that our patrimony belonged to everyone, not just a few. A time when all our newspapers discussed the cost benefit analysis of keeping a very small percentage of our land, air, and coast untouched by development, and fighting the abuse that made some wealthy and others sick, over the same parcel of land. All to make room for foreign investors seeking to invest outside the now volatile, blind, and unfeeling stock market. Sales that will bring in money one time only, and which will not even make a dent in the debt we owe. 

This is not gentrification. Gentrification is a poor neighborhood bought out piecemeal by a moving-up middle class in a decade. What is happening here is on another level entirely. Whole cities overrun by millionaires in one year, in a land where median household income is under $20,000 a year. As harsh as US colonization was, it came with token benefits - infrastructure, medical care, education. This brings none of that. Only housing prices that have made 100,000 households homeless. The government is not just corrupt. It is stealing the only things we have left of value - ecologically, socially, economically. It is actively stealing the future it owes us. 

I feel the changes before I read the headlines. I feel it when I walk out of my air-conditioned bedroom and the rest of my house is an oven. I feel it when I fill up the tank of my car and there's little left for sandwich at the Deli. I buy groceries that are now so expensive I can only buy half of what I used to buy last April. I feel it every time I read or hear the news. The sheer amount of chaos happening around the world feels abusive and deliberate - and aimed at focusing our attention elsewhere as an obscene amount of wealth concentration takes place. When families cannot feed their children, the social fabric starts to disintegrate. If you are feeling it too, and you are not alone. 

Here is what I know after fifty years of watching systems fail and communities survive the failures: The people who come through it best are the ones who are self-sufficient and connected to their communities. They have skills and they can fix what is broken instead of replacing it. They keep enough cash outside the banking system to survive for a month if the power goes out. They have knowledge that can either help others in need, or be exchanged for bartering materials. Rising prices are not a blip. The chaos in Washington and in San Juan is not a phase. The heat is not a bad summer. These are the early signs of a hard transition, and the single most important thing you can do right now, today, is start building a life that works inside that transition instead of waiting for the old one to come back. That old life is not coming back. 

So here is the practical part. 

For money anxiety: Stop buying anything that doesn't feed you, fix something, or build a skill. As a strategy. Every dollar you don't spend on something forgettable is a dollar that buys you a month of independence. Start a cash envelope. Label it FLOOR. Put $100 in it every week and don't touch it. Don’t beat yourself up if you can’t do it for one week. Just don’t stop doing it. 

For climate heat: Your body acclimates faster than you think, but it needs electrolytes, not just water. Add some sea salt to your water or drink coconut water. Limit coffee, highly caffeinated energy drinks, and alcohol before heading out, as they accelerate fluid loss. Put a wet cloth on your wrists or around your neck when you go outside - it cools you down. Use sunscreen and consider wearing a wide-brimmed hat. Use sunshades to stop the sun from heating the inside of your car. In fact, there are now "car umbrellas" that you can install on your car roof that will shade the car wherever you park. Always have a battery-powered fan that charges from a solar panel the size of a tablet. Carry a hand fan, if you don't have a battery-powered fan. Always carry a reusable water bottle - insulated or stainless steel - with cold water in it. 

For political grief: Channel it. Every law the legislature passes that takes something away from the common wealth is a reminder that community is the only way to fight this abuse, if you build it now, before the new reality becomes entrenched. And fight for your rights and the rights of nature to exist in all its biodiverse splendor, right now. Step up politically for the things we know are irreplaceable and are currently being threatened. Begin consciously doing as much as you can to not bring plastics into your home, and make sure you compost all food wastes. That is one of the strongest political actions you can take. 

For the karst, the mangroves, the rivers, the oceans, the skies and all the birds and animals that live in them: Study them. Visit them. Learn their names. Love them. Teach them to your children and grandchildren. Fight for them. Save them.

What is named is harder to erase. 

What is loved by people who will fight for it is almost impossible to steal. 

This is exactly why I built PlanetWise.app. As a response to fifty years of watching this pattern repeat - each time having less and less life, more and more damage, more and more blind laws, the community caught in a vise of powerlessness, the long painful war of attrition, and the next law that inevitably reopened the wound. 

With PlanetWise.app you can become stronger so the next thing that happens hurts you less. And the thing after that, less still. The first level of PlanetWise.app is always free. Come try it. This is the most defiant, most practical, most loving thing you can do for yourself and for the people and pets who depend on you. 

The world we planned for no longer exists. Let's build one worth living in. 

Monica Pérez Nevarez Founder, PlanetWise.app 

AskMeAnything@PlanetWise.app 

P.S. If this makes sense to you, do me a favor and forward it to the people you love. That's who we're building this for.

PlanetWise.app May 2026 Newsletter

 

Building the world we want to live in.

May 1, 2026  

 

What World Are You Prepared For?

 

I have been following some of the smartest minds on the web for the last 15 years. Thinkers who spend their lives mapping where humanity is headed,and help us see our options clearly.

 

This past week Nate Hagens, PhD, released a video that stopped me cold, called 'Frankly 139.' He mapped every possible future across economy, power, geopolitics, and planetary limits. From hopeful to frightening. 

 

And here is my takeaway: We don't know which future we will get. So we have to learn how to live with uncertainties. Because every single possible future has one thing in common: the people who fare best are the ones who know how to feed themselves and their families under adverse conditions. Who know how to maintain and repair what they have. Who know how to generate or conserve their own energy. Who know how to manage their finances without depending on systems they can't control. People who know their neighbors. Who know how to take care of their bodies and their minds. In short, everything PlanetWise is designed to instill in its members.

 

The skills that lead to your self-reliance are truly priceless. And I designed PlanetWise so parents can share it with their children, or grandparents with their grandchildren, and they can all grow strong together.

 

The work we do each day - the small, unglamorous, deeply human work of building real skills, real community, and real resilience, is the key to our future. And PlanetWise can be used by everyone, regardless of age, education, wealth, or capacity.

 

Start learning now. Before an actual disaster changes everything.

 

Planetwise is an app that verifies what you already know, teaches you what you need to learn, creates resilience and community, brings you closer to your family, and prepares you for whatever happens next. The best insurance you will ever have is the knowledge, the skills, and the community you build today.

 

Some of you have known me for a long time. You have watched me think out loud. You have been generous with your time, your comments, your encouragement, and occasionally some very pointed disagreements. PlanetWise is the result of all of that. Every conversation, every argument, every shared worry about the future - I’ve distilled it into something Planetwise members can actually use. You are a huge part of this. And for that I thank you from the bottom of my heart.

 

So here is my Ask.

Try PlanetWise. Join me in this adventure. Take one small step forward and see what happens. Give me your honest feedback. I can take it. Share it with your friends. Spread the word!

 

Come see what a 49 out of 600 Bloom Index score looks like - because that is what I scored on my own platform, on my first try, after years of thinking I was pretty well prepared. Ha! Turns out nobody's perfect.

 

And if you find, in this no-spin zone, something you want - if you feel even a flicker of “this is the truth I have been looking for!” consider joining as a Founding Member. At $10 or $20 a month, you are not buying an app. You are investing in your own self-reliance and strength. You are becoming even more special to your family, your neighbors, and your community. This is the best twenty dollars you will ever spend.

 

And a top secret I'm telling for the first time? I am launching The PlanetWise Games inside the app, levels K - 12, so you can learn the 6 Pillars of Resilience by playing with your children or grandchildren. Let me know what you think. Your voice makes PlanetWise better in every way. 

 

The world we planned for no longer exists. Let's build one worth living in.

 

Join me!

With gratitude and great hope,

Monica 

Founder, PlanetWise, Launching May 1, 2026

Resilience Begins on the Inside

Emotional illiteracy is a resilience gap.

2 min read

Let’s get one thing straight. No one taught me adulting. Not even by example. My parents were too busy trying to reflect their generational ideal of perfection. They disciplined and cajoled me into behaving, into being invisible, into not being a burden. To perform as theatrically perfect as they were. To put my needs below theirs. To say “I’m fine” when I was falling apart inside.

 

In school, I was taught math, grammar, languages, and civic duty. Nothing about my interior life. I had feelings, but I could not name them, nor understand them, nor communicate them, much less deal with someone else’s feelings. I was invisible. Love was something I needed to chase. 

At home, I was taught that attraction, attachment, dependency and codependency was love. The skill part of love — showing up consistently, tolerating difference, repairing rupture, choosing love every day — nobody taught me that. I wasn’t taught how to love. I was taught how to need.  It took me decades to learn that love isn't what you feel. It's what you practice. 

Outside my home, love was defined by movies and books. The bliss, the tragedy, the beauty, the wreckage. But hardly ever the inner work - the sloshing through your pain and secrets to come out on the other side with eyes wide open and clearly able to identify what  was going on and what your most loving response could be.

I learned to be a fair witness to myself. Not a harsh critic, which had been my default growing up. Not a deluded defender - but an actual fair witness. That was the first step to loving myself. Because what we attract reflects how ready we are to meet ourselves. You can't receive what you haven't given yourself permission to have. The relationship that shapes every other relationship is the one you have with yourself.

I also learned that this process applies to all ages. The young, the middle-aged, the older, the elders. I'm still growing, I'm still learning, I'm still opening my heart and mind to what I don't yet know about myself. I just wish someone had warned me earlier: growing up and growing into yourself are two entirely different things. One is automatic. The other is the work of a lifetime — the most important project you'll ever take on, and one which will define who you are and what you do.

Because here's what nobody tells you: emotional illiteracy is a resilience gap.