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There is no racing high like when pushing it and then coasting in a final stretch. Racing and its high have long since petered out for me! Nevertheless, in this evening’s bicycle ride along Walnut Creek I am moving, grooving. The ride is smooth, soothing! The evening air cool and clean. The path and the […]

An ecology reading list for self-isolating environmentalists Click on the above line of text for a great reading list for budding “Positively Ethical Applied Community Ecologists/PEACE-makers” (and all others!), whether young or old! (I have a number of these books on my shelves and in stacks around.) The following also includes a good list or […]

Soldier-A mercenary; one being paid [shillings, or sous (Latin)]. War-Indo-European word wers, to confuse. Military–Milia or thousands.  https://www.etymonline.com/word/military ………………………………………. https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-the-navy-revamped-boot-camp-11585350681 Though  I do have good memories of many activities, friends, experiences during my short period in Naval Air in 1969-70, I must criticize this current world of soldiers, armaments, arms, and War.  We need to […]

Ever since the late 1960s, I have been pretty hard on big (high input/throughput, or “greedy”) transnational corporations and the biocides they produce. I believe we could have developed systems largely void of these types of misdirected institutions and their synthetic chemicals (which often have unintended consequences, especially from overuse resulting from zealous marketing) and […]

Once upon a time, a looooong time ago, there lived little boy, with a widow’s peak, named Pablo.  He and his family went to Mass every Sunday.  They even often went on weekdays to pray for rain. When Pablo was a kid, the language of Mass was Latin.  And Latin is the mother of many […]

Plastics Industry Insiders Reveal the Truth About Recycling https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/single-stream-recycling-and-china-throwing-recycling-markets-into-chaos?gclid=CjwKCAjw95D0BRBFEiwAcO1KDDHLZcjQTQtW18BxH6ED9trUY7lMB-U_TlCkda-aMUTC9GzqoFmjhBoC5OMQAvD_BwE All through my little insignificant writings of over the last 30+ years I have generally emphasized conservation, low-input (sustainable agriculture), simple and small, sufficiency over efficiency, the Second (“Natural”) LAW of Thermodynamics, small individual and collective ecological footprints, and REDUCTION over recycling.  Nevertheless, in an attempts […]

https://www.wsj.com/articles/extreme-economies-review-lets-make-a-deal-11585608850 William Easterly’s Wall Street Journal review indicates that this is a good and informative book! All players in Nature’s Economy and its sub-set, the human economy, including individuals, demes, populations and ecological community complexes of other species need to be listened to toward “appropriate” dynamic homeostatic symbioses. The powerful human component including domesticated species […]

Paul Martin (BS/MS-Texas A&M Univ., Ph.D.-Univ. Florida) was raised with 5 younger siblings (and worked with farmworker labor crews) during the drought of the 1950s on a very small south Texas (hog) farm near Devine, Texas—a farm which always possessed a large garden, fruit trees, chickens and a milk cow. While in Florida during the […]

(Dec 12th, 2011 Siempre Sustainable Network meeting, 6 pm-ca.9 pm, Mosaic Community Church, 1201 W. Court Street, Seguin 78155) First of all, the idea for tonight, I think, is not to have an academic discussion—or any discussion—of whether Mexican-Americans were the first Texan environmentalists. And we’re not here, I think, to argue about if Native-Americans—and […]