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I was working on a small “paulpeaceparable” to end all paulpeaceparables (Yeah, right!!) for today’s (6/23/15) “Sustainability Forum” at the HBG Convention Center in SA, when our home computer became nonfunctional (Son John Alton is currently reviving it.).  Therefore, I haven’t been able to get into the file in which I was working  …  on […]

Solidarno??.  Solidaridad.    Solidarity.  Solidarity.  …  Solidarity!!! Can we all agree that we want a better world for all–psychologically, socially, ecologically  …  and unite in some sort of imperfect solidarity toward that end? With Lech Wa??sa, … Pope Francis, Dalai Lama, Jimmy Carter, and Tegla Loroupe. … With family and dear friends, in my case: Elizabeth […]

Eat healthy and exercise regularly. (Truly integrate this into your workday and lifestyle.) Experience the real world—your yard, open fields, farms, ranches, parks—and stay away from TV, computers, cell phones, video games & other electronic gadgetry. Get physically, intellectually & spiritually in touch with Nature, the Land, Community and People (the very young and Elders). […]

“Dime con quien andas y te dire quien eres” “Entre menos burros, mas elotes” Wawrzyniec* meditated peacefully that Thursday morning in the iconic place of Holy Family, along with 10-20 percent of the population of the village of Nazareth (rural, mostly Catholic German-Americans; population, 309). And then suddenly! … An epiphany!! (Wawrzyniec has many.) Wawrzyniec’s […]

“Gottamnit Leroy!” exclaimed Fritz very irately.  “Ju may play goot pitch. But ju’re a tamn disgrace ta da Jerman race!! … I vent down to Haby’s store and bought some of dat Alsatian sausage vit goot coriander for a nickel-a-link.  Din I cuuked-tit-up and ate dat link sausage. … Din I pooped tit out, and […]

http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2014/10/14/human-existence-wilson As a young budding scientist of thirteen years of age, E.O. Wilson may have been the first to report on the occurrence of the red imported fire ant in the U.S. He went on to become a prominent ant research scientist and sociobiologist. As pasture entomologist in southern Georgia and western Brazil who has […]

The 4 major threats to industrialized agriculture — Fred Kirschenmann speaks http://www.non-gmoreport.com/articles/january-2015/fred-kirschenmann-on-farming-as-a-self-regulating-self-renewing-system.php Fred Kirschenmann is a leader in “organic” agriculture and a pragmatic practitioner. In this short reading (first url) upon which to reflect, and which I am hopeful leads to your reading of his Cultivating an Ecological Conscience and listening to his YouTube presentations—we […]

http://www.eoearth.org/view/article/153031/ http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/socec/downloads/HH_Publi_Feb2013.PDF http://ourenergyfutures.org/profile-n-Helmut_Haberl-mid-8.html In the early 1970s David Pimentel introduced me to energetics of agricultural and other living systems … and largely because of an energy crisis at that time, I listened. This was amplified and reinforced shortly thereafter by H.T. Odum and Erich Farber, and then many others, who forced me to study and […]

Agroecology, Small Farms, and Food Sovereignty Old friend, Dr. Miguel Altieri, and “Vía Campesina believe[s] that in order to protect livelihoods, jobs, people’s food security, and health as well as the environment, food production has to remain in the hands of small-scale sustainable farmers and cannot be left under the control of large agribusiness companies […]