2024. The State of Eaarth, “Enjoying” Comforts within, and Improving It All for All (aka “The Golden Rule”) for the Immediate and Long-Term Future

Eaarth* in 2024 “Common sense” observations and soft and hard science tell us … o Ignorance is bliss but dangerous. That ignorance is very dangerous is particularly true when dealing with lack of profoundly holistic ecological knowledge. We must begin to have principles, processes, and values of applied ecology across curricula and campuses of all […]

Solid Thoughts Re PEACE/Resilient, Sustainable Ecological Community While Bicycling Around Seguin, Texas Today, August 8th, 2024

“Small Is Beautiful!” (E.F. Schumacher) “Less Is More!” (Jason Hickel) “Steady-State Economics.” (Herman Daly) “Moral Human Beings and Moral Society.”(Reinhold Niebuhr) rather than “Growth-Economics.” ……………………………. every “excessive” … mile that you travel, especially by air or automoble or cruise ship, number of electic or gasoline cars you own/operate, personal recreational, private defensive, or military gun, […]

Uncle Oscar Bain and How He Helped Influence Me Toward Pacifism & Antimilitarism & Disarmament (and Gun Control)

My namesake, Uncle Bain was killed 21 months before I was born. However, family stories about him and his calls for peace in his letters during World War II did greatly impact me.