1968!

1968! (A very crazily-chaotic and cluttered–and sad & happy/bad and good/happy & sad/good & bad–world … as it is in 2018. … I was a young 21, and wasn’t focusing and doing the critical thinking which I should have been doing!) https://www.cnn.com/shows/1968 I started 1968 on New Years Day in the company of Murray Burns […]

Enrolada* by paul bain martin (Jan 2007)

Depression and Pinchot-wired parents taught us to conserve. 2007 Chosen People-fundamentalist preachers impel us to grab and rule the all that WE MOST CERTAINLY deserve.   Humility, frugality used to be preached in the churches. America First!!!  War!! Estados Unidos sempre precisa ganhar! …  And the ship of state lurches.   Donald Trump, Warren Buffett, […]

Values

Interactions of Values (Marginalization–Sometimes Resulting in Death, for Those Who Aren’t Complacent and Complicit … and Who Are Not Running with the Herd Even Though the Herd Is Obviously Immoral and Unethical in Its Actions and Directions) On Saturday, May 12, 2018 at St. Louise Kneuper Martin’s place in Devine, Texas, we had devout and […]

Anticipations!!!

Some Ruminations Before a Wonderful Gathering of Family Down in Devine, Texas (5/12/2018): Anticipating Encounters Folk with Various Values and Politics to the Right, Left and Nearer the Center 1.There once was a natural world (Nature) with biotic members (including no to few Homo sapiens) battling to exploit and utilize daily solar radiation, available water, minerals […]

Pensamentos e Historias

Some “Pensamentos e Histórias” As We Approach the Celebration of Mom Louise Katherine (Kneuper) Martin’s 94th-Birthday-/Mothers Day-Celebration (5/12/2018) by paul bain martin 1.SUSTAINABILITY.  Genetically and environmentally St. Louise Katherine (Kneuper) Martin was probably the most influential factor in the development of my personal concepts and actions … of Positively Ethical Applied Community Ecology*, and within […]

Renewable Energy as THE Key Asset of Commonwealth in Community by paul bain martin 1

Renewable energy2 should be ethical, just transformation of energy in a low-input/-throughput steady-state human economic system.  Renewable energy sources “capture their energy from existing flows of energy, from on-going natural processes, such as sunshine, wind, flowing water, biological processes [e.g., photosynthesis, etc. into biomass], and geothermal heat flows. The most common definition is that renewable […]

Confessions and Changes in Values and Socio-Ecological Actions*

1.  The N-Word.  I really do not think I have ever been racist.  (I did have prejudices against people I deemed to be weak, quitters, obese.  …  On the other hand the reality is that [most] all of us have some tribalism and racism [various other prejudices]–at a minimum subtly “warped” into us.)  …  Herein […]

Readings for “A Celebration of Peace”, Seguin Public Library, Sep. 9, 2017, paul bain martin

Introduction.  PEACE, or Positively Ethical Applied Community Ecology, is much larger than: the resolving of mano a mano conflicts or even the avoiding Wars among Nations.  It’s more than banning nuclear arms. And in giving it an environmental slant, it is more than getting rid of plastic or cars.  It’s more than recycling or organic […]

Plea to President Donald Trump et al. 2017

605 Elm Street, Seguin, Texas 78155-4827 @PabloEco3500K 8/7/17 President Donald Trump, The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, D.C. 20500   Dear President Trump: I certainly hope that our mutual goal in life is cutting military spending, tearing down walls including many U.S. prison walls, and opening borders … as a part of efforts toward […]