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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 […]

Siempre Sustainable Network Programs through May 2010 (Mosaic Community Church. 1201 W. Court Street, Seguin, TX 78155) Meetings begin w/ a pot-luck meal @ 6pm w/ a brief business meeting and the program following. June 8*-“Sustainable Recycling” Kass Hernandez, Bexar Waste, Schertz, TX *Prior to this date we had presentations on: “a process of conservation […]

Report from the Fourth Meeting of Siempre Sustainable Network 605 Elm, Seguin, TX 78155 Jan 14, 2007 After a pot-luck dinner, Chair Marvel Maddox called our meeting to order. Other attendees included Gloria and Joe Saenz, Sylvia Manning and Tony Weisman, Gloria Caballero, Nancy Masterson, Roland James and Barbara O’Hara, Clara Beatriz Pascar, Jack Sample, […]

I. Report from the Third Meeting of Siempre Sustainable Network: An Organization of Citizens for Conservation and Sustainability in Watershed(s) 605 Elm, Seguin, TX 78155 Dec 10, 2007 There is much going on in the Seguin/San Antonio Metropolitan area that could be thought of as very appropriately fitting under the umbrella of “conservation and development […]

In his “classic” paper, What Is Education For, David Orr of Oberlin College emphasizes that “no student should graduate from … any … educational institution without a basic comprehension of:” ecological principles, processes and ethics; carrying capacity; least-cost/end-use analysis; appropriate scale and limits of technology,; and how to live well in a place. With this […]