SPIRIT | NATURE | FREEDOM
I am linking to a powerful TED talk about the state of American food and health. It is particularly revealing at showing the absolute contradiction between putting profit ahead of everything and the complex moral relationships that make up human … Read more
I was out of town at our first “Cosmos and Taxis” conference in Vancouver, BC. Now that I am back I am picking up my series of mini-essays on what democracies are and why so many do not understand them.… Read more
Deep ecologists and ecofeminists share far more in common than where they differ. However, scholars within both perspectives have tended to exaggerate inevitable differences in terminology and traditions of analysis into supposedly significant differences in kind. Some ecofeminists criticize deep … Read more
Based on reasonable extrapolations from both the historical evidence and surviving hunting and gathering societies, our earliest forbearers generally lived in relatively small usually mobile groups. This mobility was not universal. Permanent communities could exist where fish, game, and edible … Read more