Humans once lived in harmony with the natural world. Consider timekeeping. Until relatively recently, the human notion of time was based on the natural rhythms of nature. Time was measured by a new moon, the first snow, a migrating bird, or the ebb and flow of a river. Time meant situating ourselves as part of... Continue Reading →
A few months ago a group of scientists warned about the rise of “extinction denial,” an effort much like climate denial to mischaracterize the extinction crisis and suggest that human activity isn’t really having a damaging effect on ecosystems and the whole planet. That damaging effect is, in reality, impossible to deny. This past year... Continue Reading →
What We’ve Lost: The Species Declared Extinct in 2020…
The events of the past few days are shocking in their novelty—the glory of seeing the first Black Democrat ever elected to the Senate from the South, the shame of seeing a President incite a mob to storm the Capitol. Who knows what drama will come next, except for one constant: the unrelenting rise in... Continue Reading →
Our Best Chance to Slow Global Warming Comes in the Next Nine Years
some suggested readings…
I thought I might (if it is OK with you readers) share some suggested readings or more over what I deemed to be the top Climate Change Books and crucial reads, especially the two on the Green New Deal (offsite), if I might. They are as follows: 1. No One Is Too Small to Make... Continue Reading →
moments to comfort people
“We are called at certain moments to comfort people who are enduring some trauma. Many of us don't know how to react in such situations, but others do. In the first place, they just show up. They provide a ministry of presence. Next, they don't compare. The sensitive person understands that each person's ordeal is... Continue Reading →
No one needed to predict a frothing horde of Trump supporters would lay siege to the Capitol on Wednesday because they told us that was the plan all along. They told us not just on Twitter, TikTok, and TheDonald in the weeks leading up to the attack. They’ve been telling us for years from the... Continue Reading →
There is Such a Thing as Too Late…
Early humans adapted to major environmental change in 'Cradle of Mankind' 2 million years ago New evidence unearthed at the Oldupai Gorge, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Tanzania known as the "Cradle of Mankind," has revealed that "environmental adaptability and pioneering behavior were in place two million years ago" in early humans, said lead... Continue Reading →
Early humans adapted to major environmental change…
humanity’s transformation of the ecological landscape
“Were in the middle of the largest mass extinction of species in sixty-five million years.”3 Dr. Will Tuttle told me during an interview. There have been five previous mass extinctions. Scientists believe that each of these five extinctions was caused by events such as large meteors and asteroids colliding with the earth, volcanic eruptions, or... Continue Reading →
There are two Green New Deal books that are definite 'must reads' this one mentioned below (Winning The Green New Deal) and Jeremy Rifkin's 'The Green New Deal' Both are truly informative and easy to understand. In fact, The Sunrise Movements book, 'Winning The Green New Deal' really educated me and Mr. Rifkin's book opened... Continue Reading →
The Sunrise Movement’s & Jeremy Rifkin’s Books…
WHAT DOES “PERMACULTURE” MEAN?
The term “permaculture” was originally coined by Bill Mollison and David Holmgren in their book Permaculture One (1978) as a contraction of “permanent” and “agriculture.” Its etymology reflects the early concept of permaculture as primarily focused on agriculture. By the early 1980s, the definition had expanded in scope to broadly encompass the ways in which... Continue Reading →
Why Climate Change is a threat to human rights…
Climate change is unfair. While rich countries can fight against rising oceans and dying farm fields, poor people around the world are already having their lives upended -- and their human rights threatened -- by killer storms, starvation and the loss of their own lands. Mary Robinson asks us to join the movement for worldwide... Continue Reading →
