[We apparently have to have a talent show for our Permaculture class. Being rather talentless, I was somewhat inspired to write a poem (in a poor imitation of Blake). I don't write poems often (or at all), and again, this is obviously the first draft of a rough idea... but here ya...

I wonder why the word “nature” is used to describe such radically different things. One definition includes all the trees, rocks, grass, water, animals, sands… those places and things which are least touched by mankind. But another definition is used to describe the inner behavior of...

Reading: Social Ecology versus Deep Ecology: A Challenge for the Ecology Movement, by Murray Bookchin. (read it here: http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/anarchist_archives/bookchin/socecovdeepeco.html ) I was once contracted to transcribe audio files to text, and the file I received was a talk from...

This is one of my vlog posts from Growing Freedom, my old blog on the trials of trying to start your own sustainable garden/mini-farm with almost no personal experience. As implied, this is the third video in a series in which I desperately try to keep animals from eating my garden. I...