In my Sustainable Living (SL) Text, I overview a few locations where the people are living in a new way of cooperative and localized living. It is really about rebuilding community, and that’s what ‘Intentional Communities’ are all about – Read more…
Many scholars support the idea that all we need to do to solve the world’s problems is to reform what we currently do and just promote more laws and regulations to curb humanity’s worse tendencies. As a broad generalization, many Read more…
In my last post I talked about the need for a positive mind frame to create a sense of well-being. While mindset is one of the factors for a healthy life, there are many others. As I have been travelling Read more…
In basic communication theory, thoughts in your head have to be converted into words. As the sender, these words are specifically encoded by how your brain thinks about the world. The words are transmitted in some manner and are received Read more…
I was reading an overview of a U.S. governmental financial report the other day and it quite categorically said that the country’s economy is doing well! I almost fell off my chair in aghast disbelief of what I was reading! Read more…
Nature has had a long time to get things right and as efficiently as possible. For instance, an intact grass prairie ecosystem has adapted to survive perfectly in any varying conditions where it exists. In this area of Colorado, the Read more…
I have mentioned a few times in this Blog that we can learn a lot from nature. Think about it for a minute. The natural world has been adapting and modifying itself for over 3.8 billion years and is still Read more…
I had prepared three more posts when computers being what they are I somehow managed to lose the file as it was backing up. Despite spending two hours trying to locate a previous version, I have given up. So, today’s, Read more…
In the last post I commented on negativity when talking about problems and issues and also the use of interpretive techniques to get people to listen more attentively rather than just tuning out. The mass media has done a wonderful Read more…
“We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.” E.O. Wilson. One Read more…
I was listening to a short U-tube talk by Vandana Shiva, a brilliant philosopher from India. She really put things into simple perspective. It got me to thinking again how we transform the world to one we want to see Read more…
Whenever I talk about the farming system, many people disempower themselves with disclaimers like “I can’t afford healthy food” or “It’s hard to find healthy food.” Talk about an external Locus of Control (see prior post – How people think Read more…
An obvious, yet poignant question I used to ask my students to get them thinking – “What does the term Sustainable Agriculture imply about modern industrial agriculture?” I am always amazed how so many people talk about sustainability but still Read more…
“Modern corporate driven Industrial Farming is not about food! It is about chemical and oil corporations making money. Food is merely the vehicle in which they do this: And as a value added bonus, also a way to provide the Read more…
In the previous post I talked about the 10% rule of energetics within the food chain. The potentially most efficient way to eat is to consume the vegetables directly so that we get 10% of the vegetables energy. Eating an Read more…
“The primary mode of cognition that the practitioners of science have used during the past century – Analytic, Linear, Reductionist, Deterministic, Mechanical – has begun to reach the limits of its assumptions. For this particular mode of cognition and the Read more…
Main future view categories (numbers in parentheses are percentages for each category – 25 years and 100 years, with question three overviews in the narrative within each question). 1. No real change over 25 years (or even 100 years?) (0%/7%). Read more…
“The only thing that can save us as a species is seeing how we’re not thinking about future generations in the way we live.” Erik Erikson In my academic past-life I was doing some research on how people perceive the Read more…
In the last three posts I have outlined why I think we are all connected to nature. But that connectedness lies along a continuum of liking it for its pragmatic personal needs to loving it intrinsically as a part of Read more…
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. William Shakespeare BioDiversity is known to be a complete interaction of all the species in an ecosystem. Modern science accepts that an ecosystem is a complete and interactive and dynamic collection of species Read more…
Earth is not a platform for human life. It’s a living being. We’re not on it but part of it. Its health is our health. Thomas Moore (archetypal psychologist and mythologist). I really do not think that indigenous peoples go Read more…
In my last post I stated that nearly everyone connects to the natural world on a fundamental level. The term Biophilia was first coined by Erich Fromm in his book The Heart of Man: It’s genius for Good and Evil Read more…
“It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wears you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.” Muhammad Ali Recently I received the Comment: “You actually make it seem really easy along with your presentation however I find this topic Read more…
“The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the ad handle because it was made of wood and they thought it was one of them.” Anon There seem to be three main areas of geoengineering: 1) modern accepted Read more…
The most prominent instrument at HAARP is the Ionospheric Research Instrument (IRI), a high-power radio frequency transmitter facility operating in the high frequency (HF) band. The IRI is used to temporarily excite a limited area of the ionosphere. Sounds Innocuous doesn’t it? According to Read more…
In the last 30 years it seems like the weather patterns and climate overall have become more chaotic. Most of this has been assigned by mainstream science to growing Global Climate Disruption (GCD). The evidence is quite compelling. More recently Read more…
If you haven’t heard of the Georgia Guidestones (the GGs), don’t be surprised, because your local TV station will not be doing an exposé anytime soon. I found them through my travels within the internet one day when an apparent Read more…
I have read several times now from different sources, “who thought it was a good idea to put poison on our food and think it would have no consequences?” Two of the largest chemical companies (Bayer and Monsanto) in the Read more…
Let’s face it, we all like food. It has been the primary human occupation throughout humanities history. It is the primary drive for all of nature. Yet how many of us in the MDCs could actually find food if it Read more…
Before I get back to sustainable food systems, a post on how we enclosed water. It’s not as though it falls from the sky. (I think I hear lots of groans 😊.) Looking at the Earth from space we see Read more…