Toward a Clean Sustainable Seguin [And an imagined conversation of a father (Pablo) and his oldest son (Jeremias) Jan 2007 (pbm)] Enrolada* Depression and Pinchot-wired parents taught us to conserve. 2007 Chosen People-fundamentalist preachers impel us to grab and rule the all that WE MOST CERTAINLY deserve. Humility, frugality used to be preached in the […]
Monthly Archives: March 2020
Sunshine
I adore sunshine! But life is mostly water. We desperately need overcast skies And rain! Nevertheless, The sun gives the energy which binds, Which connects! I adore sunshine! ……………. pbm [ 7 Ss / VV->^^ ]
A Bicicleta
Engineers’ wonder glides me home. Two wheels, pedals. … People Power! O’er asphalted soil which was loam. Engineers’ wonder glides me home. Yields carefree living, worlds to roam. Mine an orange and blue flower. …… Engineers’ wonder glides me home. Two wheels, pedals. … People Power! ********************* pbm [ 7 Ss / VV->^^ ]
A Proposed Introduction to a Draft of a Heavily-Illustrated Little Book on Applied Ecology
And a little bird said: “Why? don’t you humans practice what you preach? … the Golden Rule … PEACE … Love … Humility.” Why? We Developed This Book! The sky is falling for some living things at various points in time in the universes and cosmos. This can be observed … through lens of the […]
Wendell Berry
We all must begin living sabiamente, simply, smally, slowly SHARINGLY, . . .SUSTAINABLY ! “To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of creation. When we do this knowingly, lovingly, skillfully, reverently, it is a sacrament. When we do it ignorantly, greedily, clumsily, destructively, it is a desecration. In such desecration […]
Steady State: Some Answers to Overshoot, Drawdown of the Natural Resource Base, and Continued & Increasing Disparity
In the 1970s, ecologist David Pimentel introduced me to energetics of agricultural and world systems. Then while at the University of Florida, H.T. Odum piqued my interest. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1815769.Food_Energy_and_Society https://www.resilience.org/stories/2005-01-01/prosperous-way-down/ Shortly after these interactions with Drs. Pimentel and Odum, I became aware of similar work (and comparable resultant conclusions) from Texan, Rice University graduate, and (later) […]