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When a human language dies, says linguist David Crystal, “what is primarily lost is the...
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TOWARD A CLIMATE CHANGE CULTURE
This blog is about the need for a climate change culture and the steps we must take to develop one
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Why We Need An Earth Jurisprudence
We are In the midst of climate changing world. We need a new and very different approach. This chronicle is based upon an Earth Jurisprudence. It talks about the Laws of Nature instead of human laws trying to deal with nature. It discusses indigenous understanding of Earth based upon my experience with Inuit and […]
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Declassified: Earth’s Best Kept Secret
Above Image: Hubble Deep Field, NASA [What follows was recently added to the last chapter of the author’s book, The Ambient Christ, a synthesis of scientific and religious cosmologies (a cosmo-theology). The synthesis proposes to harmonize with all fields of knowledge, including the subject below, largely ignored by the scientific and academic communities. The contents […]
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Surviving In A World of Pandemics and Climate Change
If we want to deal with the pandemic and climate change we have to start at the community level and work up. This is the personal story of a Canadian, Michael Clague. He is an expert in community development and I have known him for many years. His work has focused on large cities and […]
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“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...
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