Happy Friday, peeps. And happy New Year, everyone! Or everyone on the Gregorian calendar that is. (Wikipedia = time suck.) To be honest, until I got back online yesterday morning, I hadn’t even registered that today would be the first day of a new decade. But it seems that over the last week, everyone ...
Meandering through the newsosphere (can I call mainstream media the newsosphere if I access it online?), I stumbled upon two facts which, in and of themselves, were both unsurprising and not terribly interesting. American citizens have an abiding faith in technology, more so than any other country in the world. Americans don’t believe in climate change. Individually, each ...
I spent last Thursday and Friday fasting, taking my second turn in our rolling fast in support of Climate Justice Fast. The first time around, I was struck not as much by the absence of food as I was by the ready availability of clean, affordable water (my thoughts are included ...
What: The Hyperlocavore Book Club Reading: The Transition Handbook Where: Hyperlocavore.com Why: Because intelligent discussion about books ...
I don't talk much about religion, and I'm not going to start now. But no matter your faith, please take a moment to watch this video from Advent Conspiracy. What would it take for you to make it this kind of holiday season?
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches. – Rainer Maria Rilke Today is Black Friday, which means that yesterday was Thanksgiving. It is a holiday with a long and interesting history that has since ...
Thanksgiving week is almost upon us, and with it Black Friday. You would think that after people were killed last year, casualties of rampant consumerism, some of the enthusiasm for Black Friday would have waned. This does not seem to be the case, as people begin preparing to rise at the crack of dawn ...
I find myself in a momentary crisis of faith. I don’t speak of this in terms of religious faith, and maybe it's not faith at all. Perhaps a "deficit of optimism" would be a better way to describe it. Last weekend it rolled in via the blasting of Coal River Mountain, and
Last Thursday was Blog Action Day: Climate Change. Thousands of bloggers from around the world, across countries and across topics, took a day to blog about climate change. It was a profound example of the power of collected action -- nearly 32,000 posts reached an estimated 17 million people. But as I ...
Farming is not adapted to large-scale operations because of the following reasons: Farming is concerned with plants and animals that live, grow, and die. - "Ancient" agricultural textbook (Cornell University, 1942) Social systems are not adapted to large-scale operations, because social systems are concerned with humans that live, grow, and die. Part of the problem with society ...
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