

GAIA
Our reading offers us that, "The ability to recover from mass extinctions is strong evidence for Gaia." This idea still strikes me like a...
Feb 22, 20202 min read


INTUITION
Intuition came up in several recent school readings and class discussions. I don’t understand this conversation or know where to go with it. At all. Part of the problem, I think, is about definitions. (Though this is probably just Maslow's hammer: my cognitive bias that over-relies upon semantics. To the semantic-hammer, everything seems a word-nail.) What I'm certain of is that our readings never help with a definition. ( It seems you're just supposed to intuit a meaning. ZI
Feb 10, 20205 min read


THE HESCHEL-ORR PARADOX
A legend of the environmental world and key author in our introductory readings, David Orr, writes, “...philosophers have agreed with...
Dec 11, 20199 min read


"FUNCTIONALLY EXTINCT"
It's happening again. A Forbes article, citing the Australian Koala Foundation (AKF), is reporting that due to recent fires in Australia...
Nov 23, 20192 min read


CLIMATE MARCHES or THE PRAXIS OF NOT GIVING A FUCK
How do we confuse ourselves less, avoiding getting things catastrophically wrong and making things worse for everyone? Could it require...
Sep 27, 20195 min read


FRIENDS DON'T LET FRIENDS EAT INSECTS
Somehow we're still on the insect-eating thing. Now we're on to a group project. For this project, we started by adopting the perspective...
Sep 23, 20193 min read


BISON
Bison came up in conversation today as an example of a tremendous, almost miraculous, conservation victory. (Also, winner of best...
Jul 26, 20198 min read


TODAY'S CLIMATE RANT
It's not like we haven't been up against ecological catastrophe many times before in my short life. But in the past we just did it...
Aug 17, 20151 min read



























































































