Anything Wendell Berry writes is worth the time it takes to digest…My recommendation is to go spend some time today with the man…
The general reaction to the apparent end of the era of cheap fossil fuel, as to other readily foreseeable curtailments, has been to delay any sort of reckoning. The strategies of delay, so [...]
Faustian economics: Hell hath no limits—By Wendell Berry (Harper’s Magazine)
August 18th, 2008 · No Comments · just musings
Tags: American Ideals?·climate change·conservation·politics·sustainable·writing of place
Living the Good Life
August 14th, 2008 · No Comments · just musings, writing of place
CARSON, NEW MEXICO—When the wind comes up the mesa, which it often does, there is a particular rusted-out old car nearby that whispers the same eerie, long-toned question every time: “Whoooooo?”
I sometimes think: “Us.”
Out in this remote part of the American Southwest lies the closest thing I have seen to an answer to how to [...]
Tags: conservation·environment·sustainable·writing of place
Energy Musing
August 13th, 2008 · 3 Comments · just musings
Obama is the first political figure since Carter to understand the energy efficiency and conservation approach and actually try to present it to the American people. Republicans want to nip it in the bud — that’s why they are so aggressively jumping on the tire gauge thing. They want to make it seem like a [...]
Tags: conservation·environment·people·politics·sustainable
Shhhh…Keep it quiet. Someone might hear…
June 16th, 2008 · No Comments · just musings
And be sure the VP doesn’t find out, he’ll want to drill there.
Congress Pushes to Keep Land Untamed - washingtonpost.com
INDEX, Wash. — With little fanfare, Congress has embarked on a push to protect as many as a dozen pristine areas this year in places ranging from the glacier-fed streams of the Wild Sky Wilderness here [...]
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