Reading: The Efficiency Dilemma (which you can read HERE!)   The better (more efficient) we are at doing something industrial (using coal power, increasing miles-per=gallon), the more we end up doing it. That is, rather than see an overall decrease of gasoline consumption due to more...

 [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’ve been asking myself this since I started: What is the Sustainable Living Coalition? What does it do? Why does it exist? Who benefits? How do we fit into the larger picture? So let me ask you…. Is the SLC: 1) An Educational Organization, with the primary purpose of providing...

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...

I’ve been wrestling with this idea for years, but I think I’ve finally come to terms with the fact that might makes right. “Right,” in this case, means actualized, manifest correctness. It does not mean, nor imply, any unrealized concept of correctness – that is...