“Earth” is a Proper Name
Linguistic habits can connect or separate. Let’s drop “the” and choose...
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About an excellent article on climate change
In the past four years writing on climate change I’ve published many articles. But...
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Rain
When my partner George died in October one of the things I dreaded was the coming rainy season. No more beautiful blue and yellow days, long twilit evenings, silken roses in overflowing gardens. I feared I had only darkness and storms ahead. Grayness inside and out. One soft, misty January day, walking a trail along […]
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Systems Thinking for a Climate Changing World.
We live in a radically climate changing world. Our problems are caused by our systems, particularly our economic systems. We can’t fix the systems. We need a new way of learning to develop new systems that are compatible with our changing world. This blog turns to a process that Margaret Wheatley called Emergence.
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Bow and Arrow Technology and Culture
The bow and arrow is an ancient technology, and it takes great skill to make a bow. Find out what researchers discovered from interviews with expert bow makers from the hunter-gatherer Hadza people The critical thing that sets...
Read MoreGRAVITOMAGNETISM: DOES IT EXPLAIN AWAY DARK MATTER?
Something we don’t understand yet holds the galaxies together when, based on our limited understanding, they should be flying apart. Gravitomagnetism is the energy created by spinning objects in the fabric of spacetime. Find out why it may explain away the mysterious Dark Matter for which scientists have been searching unsuccessfully. (Photo Credi: Sergey Nivens – […]
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The Sacred and the Profane – A Review
(Photo Credit:©svetlanakononov7 – stock.adobe.com used under license’ The Sacred and the Profane – A Review The Sacred and the Profane is a classic book on the history of religion and mythology. Find out how it reveals the Universe, Nature, and Humanity as our connections to the sacred. (5:00 min read) –
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Making Room for a New World
This blog starts with an awareness that we are living in a changing world. We are facing a...
Read More‘Making Peace with Nature’ Report Offers Sustainable Blueprint
‘Making Peace with Nature’ is the title of a new report from the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). Find out how it lays out a blueprint for solving our climate, biodiversity and pollution challenges (Photo credit: UN News)
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The power of allurement, the mystery of beauty
In this essay I ponder one of nature’s most intriguing mysteries: why is so much so beautiful? Why all those luscious colors, gossamer wings, silken petals? Why rustling waves of grasslands, filled with flowers, chirping crickets, soaring meadowlarks? Beauty is an aspect of the universal power that cosmologist Brian Swimme calls allurement, the great attracting […]
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