Stonehenge continues to teach us important lessons – as long as we reject the distractions. Reuters of all places was where I found a new study in Nature about the provenance of the Altar Stone – Scotland, almost 500 miles away per this study. Here’s the summary from Nature article: Understanding the provenance of megaliths…
Grist published an article explaining the day – there’s a day called “Earth Overshoot Day”. “Earth Overshoot Day” reminds us that humans consume more resources than the planet can provide. Correcting that requires reimagining human behavior. Grist Humans have taken more from earth than the earth can supply within balance since 1971. The question for…
A Grist post on plastic pickers really got me this morning. Here’s the set up and helps answer, ‘who are plastic pickers?’ an estimated 20 million people make a living by collecting discarded plastic, aluminum, and other refuse from dumpsites and landfills and selling it to recyclers. They’re called “waste pickers,” and though their work is essential…
While reading a recent new book, Enlightenment Now, I now read with renewed skepticism and critical analysis of their assumptions, arguments and conclusions (inferences). Enlightenment Now will resurface on Kestrel once completed, but it already has altered my thinking patterns some. With that background, a recent article in Grist on world food insecurity deserves mention…
The Institute of Bank America published a great short piece on plastic and its circular economy. A strange place for good plastic research and needed investments. I found it well worth the read. There were two key points that I found important. First, a circular economy for any product cycle is heavily dependent on the…
I was struck the other day by a perceived pivot in my mental model vis-a-vis my positioning to the world. Growing up during teenage and college years, I was heavily influenced by Laurel Canyon music. No better song captures the optimism within the class / social / cultural struggle of their times than Graham Nash’s…
