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“The” solution is “simple”. Live simple, small, slow*. … But the insurmountable challenge can be basically stated as two/“too!!”: 1. There are too many people living with too much and too very many living with much too little. And there isn’t enough to go around. 2. Ecosystems, biogeochemical cycles, energetics; psychological, socio-political, and economic aspects […]

As with members of many families and communities I suppose, I do not believe the odds are that I could have been raised in a much better family or community than the Alton & Louise Martin family and Devine, Texas. And life was particularly sweet around Christmas time!! (It wasn’t perfect and could have been […]

My original idea for this blog site was to do very short, succinct and light, but thought-provoking, stories based on “facts” with links to substantive scientific knowledge, and with illustrations by my more artistic wife. With help perhaps I will eventually get there before I pass. If I had been born with a silver spoon […]

Baby spinach from El Valle Central. What tries to pass for bacon from imprisoned animal intellects of Carolina. A bit of reconstituted poultry from Georgia. Way too much plastic from the Saudis. Maybe more than 30 kilocalories invested for less that one ingested. Even less digested. (And metabolized???) Un poco de vitaminas y minerales. ¡Pero […]

She was a pachuca, a chola. Young living at a fast pace; wild, wicked, reckless. Cruces on her hands and tattoos up her limbs. … But the wine and dope and years wore her down. Now she is truly lost. La belleza que era aimlessly wanders the downtown parks of this bustling business town. La […]

Joanne Lauck (Voice of the Infinite) believes “that the microcosm reflects the macrocosm”. We humans create a “hostile world”. We teach prejudice. … Moreover, “there are real reasons why we mistrust and fear insects. Few have much to do with the actual insect. Most involve misperceptions about them and about ourselves, and are tied to […]

Though he tried–in the clutter of conventional capitalism, commerce, materialism, and consumption; artificially manipulated high-speed electrons and electromagnetic waves (and many, many algorithms); and other aspects of an “invisibley handled”, high-input/-throughput world system– Páv?los had trouble getting the real attention of even family and friends closest to him. Moreover, although David Orr pointed out in […]

After publication in the Seguin Gazette, the following (with somewhat of a focus on Seguin, Texas) was posted in 2014 on Facebook ( https://www.facebook.com/paul.b.martin.54/allactivity ) and Banned Books Cafe ( http://bannedbookscafe.blogspot.com/2014/08/respectecological-justice.html ).  A version of this is also in our book Games We Play by paul martin ( https://www.kite.pub/sustainability/games-we-play ).  I wish I had included a statement […]

Thoughts toward realizing a sustainable community garden: Most important– o Visit other community gardens in the area and in other regions-Learn from others o “Institutionalization”-Make the garden an integral part of a truly sustainable community organization/entity  …  and over time, make it a part of a dynamic local foodshed/hub o Steering committee-Set up a formal, […]