in many ways i have had my way born of St. Louise Katherine Kneuper Martin wedded to a wonderful Elizabeth Florence Hoffmann Martin for 51 years (and Betsy has a Johnny Hoffmann-smile) many real and thoroughly good & special family & friends some of whom attended our recent wedding anniversary celebrations! but i am never […]
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growth, freedom, power, … and net primary productivity
in the 1970’s with speed limits at 55 and a curbing of christmas lighting i was somewhat elated that we’d finally begun to realize some socio-ecological sanity (my dad loved it! he drove 45 and went around turning out lights) …………………… deaf ears. blind eyes. lack of real feeling deaf, blind, oblivious the […]
State/Fate of EAARTH (Systematic System-Change Including Degrowth … Through Ecology Across All Campuses & Curricula Is, for the Most Part, the Only Solution!)* … by plain paul
(Close to eight billion of one dominant species Annually transform/”consume” more than 580 million trillion joules Or in excess of about 13865 million tons of oil equivalents) Gaia, Earth (now Eaarth), nature, dynamic homeostatic symbioses Are matter … simply, complexly … organized with free available energy And if the energy and resultant chemical reactions […]
I Had to React (AR-15’s and “Americans”)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/the-rifle-that-ruined-america/ar-AAYunRI?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=bfe6185900d74be7bd578a448d127010 I suppose many of us feel that living the life-styles of our parents “would be the salvation of the world.” I most certainly do!Anyway, as I say in our recently-published little book on positively ethical applied community ecology, “Games We Play,” I am very sure that the world would be much, much, much better […]
Nature? Human Nature
I obviously do not understand the Nature of Human Nature Perhaps there is little Nature there? At least now? …………. pbm 7 S’s / VV->^^
La Culpa
It’s not the shooter’s fault It’s the culpa of the ecological community
The Big (& Little) Picture of Positively Ethical Applied Community Ecology (PEACE), Pacifism, & Dynamic Homeostatic Symbioses
The major challenge is a common goal of quality life for all Including other species Sure, it is hard to realize; maybe impossible Anyway, as long as we continue to de facto worship guns, AR-15s, military, soldiers of War, nuclear armaments And nationalists, patriots, autocrats, fascists, those who think “GREAT! and GREATER” (And psychologically-, physiologically-, […]
Crazy?1 Insane?2
“I’ve always been crazy but it’s kept me from going insane Nobody knows if it’s something to bless or to blame So far I ain’t found a rhyme or a reason to change I’ve always been crazy but it’s kept me from going insane” Waylon Jennings First, I wish to apologize to those who live […]
Growth and Evapotranspiration … and of course, more!
(“Ecological” paul) E – Vapo – Trans – Piration Perhaps we do all understand its important effects on biomes … Especially to the west and my land of “the time it never rained.”1 However! If so, why then so many non-natives, frequent “burr hair-cuts” for lawns, over-grazing, conventional tillage; Artificialization, & big schools & […]