605 Elm Street Seguin, Texas 78155-4827 October 30, 2019 Honorable Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez U.S. House of Representatives 229 Cannon HOB Washington, DC 20515 Dear Representative Ocasio-Cortez: Subject: The Green New Deal and a Need for Ecology across Curricula & Campuses and for Ecological Values Which Would Move Us toward Light Ecological Footprints • -I just finished […]
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Faith, Hope and Charity within Humankind?: Can We Rally Around Limiting embodied Human Appropriated Net Primary Productivity?1
Eaarth to Neo-Earth It is blatantly obvious that We must go beyond realpolitik … Or …. Realpolitik is now […]
Mining the Motherlode by Andy Wilkinson
https://www.westernfolklife.org/mining-the-motherlode What an amazing poem and poet! https://www.westernfolklife.org/mining-the-motherlode
Thoughts After Dr. Ken Kramer’s* Wonderful Presentation at Texas Lutheran University Last Eve, 9/24/19 (“The Art of Effective Advocacy: Championing Creation Care & Social Justice”)
1.Like many folks currently here on Eaarth, I have a list of “important” things to do i.e., • read the papers & magazines on my desk from the past few days; • use this energy intensive & ecologically-disruptive technology to contact family about trying to travel to a young & special nephew’s football game in […]
Basic Thoughts Each Morning (Triggered by Status Quo-Humanity Headed Over a Cliff)
1. There is a lack of profound and comprehensive curiosity about ecology even among many current/conventional so-called biologists and naturalists. The current focus of STEAM is through a lens of the human economy and of having dynamic homeostatic symbioses (“nature”) bow to the inappropriate technology, engineering, and entrepreneurship of the Chosen Ones rather than living […]
Dead Man Walking
Congratulations! You succeeded. I am a dead man walking. (And so are you.) Tried, convicted and sentenced to burial By a select, prejudiced, unforgiving cohort Relatively … hopefully temporarily … Not sane of mind. You HAVE buried me. (Not that you didn’t have help, Including self!) HOWEVER!!! … I’m not looking for pity. (There are […]
From “Ecology-Across-Campuses and -Curricula … and Ecological Literacy: Toward Sustainable Livelihoods and Conservation and Sustainable Community” (Revisting) by Siempre Sustainable Network
Paper presented at the 33rd Annual Conference of the Society of Educators and Scholars, Oct. 2010 p.b. martin et al. https://bannedbookscafe.blogspot.com/2013/09/normal-0-false-false-false.html “We know we are in dire straits* as a species, and that we are among associated species facing even more difficult immediate threats … such as extinction by Homo sapiens. At least one billion […]
Striving for a Bit of Utopia in What Is Dystopia for Many: Saving the Lakes Near Seguin-Texas, Sustainable Ecological Community, or Both?
Local ecological problems, and issues which should be dealt with when profoundly & holistically resolving these challenges, are generally a microcosm of global challenges. Here in our Seguin, Texas area, a landfill proposed for development over the Carrizo-Wilcox Aquifer was one such challenge. And very recently the local political activity resulting from the proposed permanent […]
Ecological Prudence, Morals & Ethics, and Critical Thinking (Including Involving the Development & Maintenance of Artificial Lakes)
“To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of Creation. When we do this knowingly, lovingly, skillfully, reverently, it is a sacrament. When we do it ignorantly, greedily, clumsily, destructively, it is a desecration. In such desecration we condemn ourselves to spiritual and moral loneliness, and others to want.” Wendell Berry, […]