Building on Matador Solidarity … and on Respect for Self & Community

“… teachers are really proving that they ARE the backbone of education now and always have been, not legislators or standardized testing development companies. They are creating their lessons plans, staying in contact with students, informing parents, and encouraging both while taking care of the needs of their own children and homes. They are indeed […]

Meaning of/in (human) Life/Nature.

I suppose I have to have hope in humanity (i.e., in its quest for scientific knowledge, humility, empathy, compassion, respect, discipline & integrity, and in its capacity for Truth & Prudence) … and hope for quality life for all!!??!! “Positively Ethical Applied Community Ecology-PEACE” across curricula & campuses (EACC), of all human organizational entities, will […]

Dr. Norman Borlaug and the Green Revolution: Neglect of the Precautionary Principle

The WSJ has it mostly wrong today re the Green Revolution on their editorial page … and the PBS Norman Borlaug documentary is on the right track. It should be common knowledge by now that: 1. Dr. Borlaug et al. didn’t abide by the Precautionary Principle, 2. there were better routes toward quality life for […]

My Memories of the Amazing Educator Lawrence Alton Martin (April 22, 1948-January 28, 2010)

Memories shared at brother Lawrence’s funeral service ten (10) year’s ago in the same church where the funeral service of our beloved and highly respected Coach Marvin Gustafson was held ( https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/lawrence-martin-obituary?pid=139164488 )– [Lawrence gifted me with the book in the photo above, Paideia Problems and Possibilities, and invited me to present one afternoon to […]

Fifty Years of Earth Day (Ecological Literacy and Values and Appropriate Action … or More and More Plagues?)

  What would an ethical and rational critical thinker and decision-maker expect? Two hundred thousand years of living in dynamic homeostatic symbioses through a light ecological footprint.. Then from one million in 8000 BCE to one billion in 1800 to eight to ten billion! Daily consumption by some of these humans rising from 20,000 kilocalories […]

Olman 2006: 22 and 2

My poor family deserves more! I’m leaving for that good-paying roofing work in Texas tomorrow.. Twenty-two days of walking; rickety school buses; coyotes; La Bestia; crossing hot, blistering, cold-at-night desert. Siguatepeque to Nuevo Laredo … and more coyotes. Two hours in San Antonio. ¡Pinche putos cabrones! ¡¡¡La migra!!! Back to Honduras the next day. …………………. […]