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
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Quick Link
August 8th, 2008 · No Comments · just musings
Why Paul Roberts’ End of Food deserves to be digested by policy makers and local-food activists alike | By Tom Philpott | Grist | Victual Reality | 08 Aug 2008
The Locavore’s Dilemma
Why Paul Roberts’ End of Food deserves to be digested by policy makers and local-food activists alike
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