A random (I really don’t know how I was on this list) publication arrived in my inbox this morning from a publication called Barn Raiser. Here’s their tag-line: “Your independent source for rural and small town news”. The article that caught me was from a multi-generation farmer from Montana, and how corporate oligarchies and government…
City of Quartz – LA After pulling together a group of admired friends and family reading a specific book – City of Quartz, by Mike Davis – and watching, listening to some current events, my response to the book has changed. At first, I expressed my angst while reading that I had hard time accepting…
Too often environmental decisions are pitched and framed within a binary construct – an either / or. What if that framing was disingenuous or a simple error in trying too hard to simplify things that are not simple. Take ocean-going big ships. They are essential to move goods and commodities around the world from where…
In a recently published academic paper that I cannot now find nor fully remember, the author focused on the metaphor change from “Global Warming” to “Climate Change”. They asserted that that simple metaphor change was introduced initially as a compromise to “deniers”; that metaphor change, either intentionally or not, reduced angst, urgency and sadly, human…
Friends, colleagues, family, coaches, mentors, sponsors (the list goes on, and on) … they form our social support structure. Give us strength, encouragement, help and praise / criticize. But, stopping for a moment and asking oneself, ‘why are they doing this?’ It seems that these human support elements come in two flavors, and it’s important…
