Reshaping the agricultural landscape.
I find it really easy to get stuck in ruts. Like, I’m a pretty good off-road driver, but man, in life, I get bogged down very quickly when things take a turn for what looks like the worse. Although I’m … Continue reading “Being What You Want To Be vs. Doing What You Can” →
Living in suburbia is just about as far from my envisioned dream life as one could get, but since we’re here, I figure one might as well envision what it could look like, done regeneratively. Presuming that the housing layout doesn’t change … Continue reading “Regenerative Suburban Dreaming” →
Things are getting harder and harder to write, and I just figured out why. I’m wanting more and more to make an impact, to impress someone, to be read and heard, and that’s making it harder and harder to write. … Continue reading “Making Smart” →
It’s occurred to me that to keep this running I need a list – a good, long and growing one – of writing topics. Keyword prompts for writing, to get me going when I’m drawing up blanks or stickman-equivalents of … Continue reading “Creating Topics” →
Here’s why we don’t leave the things we mean to do until the end of the day. Because we forget to do them. It was a good reason: working on a friend’s documentary with him. It’s a worthwhile subject, too, … Continue reading “Priorities” →
I just opened my email to a nice surprise. Several years ago, I co-wrote a chapter on permaculture as a systemic design practice. Even I’m not entirely sure what that means, but it’s the title of the chapter: Permaculture As … Continue reading “The Long Game” →
I love having a library of resources at my fingertips. Or, scattered across my desk. Or in a box at my feet, because I needed to take a box of books with me just in case when I went to Merced last summer for … Continue reading “Reading Agroecology” →
The Early View Alert of the journal Functional Ecology just arrived, highlighting an article in which the authors use the ecological study of coral reefs to highlight the ambiguity around the use of the term ‘function’ in the study of complex, high-diversity … Continue reading “Putting the ‘function’ in Ecosystem Function” →
I have a lot of them. I have a lot that I have read, but also a lot that are waiting, or got started but weren’t right for the time and ended up passed over in lieu of something more immediately … Continue reading “Unread Books” →
It happens, but don’t look for it to. When it does, it’ll be obvious. Like when you’re really jonesing to work for an organization, and they bring you on, and then get you on a call to meet with their … Continue reading “Serendipity” →