“… we are, after all, striving for a better total-world to live in, and not a better way to kill FAW [fall armyworms], a more effective sampling technique for FAW, a more refined dynamic AT [action threshold] for FAW in CBG [coastal bermudagrass], or a higher quality bale of hay.” In P. B. Martin et al. 1980. Action […]
Monthly Archives: July 2023
gucci? or coochie??
look deep into their eyes they yearned to be and sort of each became a highfalutin capitalistic gucci …………………………. on the other hand i personally would like to be an applied ecologist … learned and wise my biggest dream, however, is to be a well-respected & well-honed leftist hoochie coochie ************ paul bain, in vain
Positively Ethical Applied Community Ecology/PEACE
“… we are, after all, striving for a better total-world to live in, and not a better way to kill FAW [fall armyworms], a more effective sampling technique for FAW, a more refined dynamic AT [action threshold] for FAW in CBG [coastal bermudagrass], or a higher quality bale of hay.” In P. B. Martin et […]
A Few Words Directed at Some Divine Hometown-Devine Boys
1. Debating, sport, etc. … all activities of life … “should be” for appropriate learning.2. “Nothing is absolute … for individuals or for ecological communities” (except for this statement). 3. In his little world, Plato recognized to some extent Wes Jackson’s and Robert Jensen’s “Inconvenient Apocalypse.”* … The “Big Truths” (greater now than in Plato’s […]
perceptions of “beauty,” dynamic homeostatic symbioses (thoreau’s nature and leopolds’s land & hardin’s commons), and humankind
this started esta mañana with a desire to develop a simple poem about my beautiful wife and beautiful life and then quickly flowed in to this little mente much of what i’d poured out into “beauty, energetics, and limits on quality and quantity of beauty”‘ in ourgames we play … more than 200,000 years of […]
Status Quo? Or No!?
Just say no to status quo! No mo’!!! The system’s gotta change necessarily If there going to be some glee For those of the future, for the terribly poor; the creatures of the Land, the creatures of the sea … For those with concern, hopefully like you … like me. But be smart! Not like […]
amphibians demise in a pot in which conditions for life are … slowly degrading, or … explosively extinguished
it might likely be the combined somewhat subtle, relatively unnoticeable effects … of loss of topsoil, quality air & water, photosynthesizers & net primary productivity, connected biodiversity loss, and poor capture of daily solar energy AND associated climate change from recklessness and use, directly & indirctly, of fossil energy for food, fiber, shelter, and stuff, […]
“all together now.” poetry night, seguin, texas, u.s.a. a very lucky, happy july 13, 2023
in deep humility, kindness, and with empathy … and when needed … sympathy equitably, credibly with integrity, helpfully, … generally necessarily messily learn in solidarity toward sustainable livelihoods that are profoundly and holistically good with all who are “de facto ‘quaker’-friends” … and through some real and deep friendship … involved in sustainable unity socio-ecological […]
some “‘sage’ common sense” from a fellow who tries to be a true conserving conservative (& who continually learns through applied ecology). some thoughts transpiring after a close call
a pickup and trailer runs a stop sign in west Seguin and almost runs over me & my bicycle (this type of scary encounter of my harmless light bicycle vs. monstrous automobiles occurs once or twice a year in my current life … after 76-plus years of living and bicycling) then the pickup driver has […]