The Lie That Would Kill the Earth
In the end, if we allow it to go on, our brief history of species accomplishments will be a strutting and fretting signifying nothing. Or we can stand up and call a lie and lie. We can recover our true…
Category Earthcare
What Goes Up: Doing the Math
I give you exhibits A and B–just two of literally thousands of pieces of information making it clear that, in the very near future, we need to be MORE rather than LESS open to what a wide mix of sciences…
How Not To Boil a Frog
I was remembering recently an adult object lesson one of my parents taught me long ago. In the way of many moral lessons we learn as children, the physiological facts of the tale are flawed but the point is nevertheless…
Nature is Not our Golden Egg if We Kill the Goose
Do you think that the chief purpose of natural places and communities of the planet is for human transformation into more and more human stuff forever? Or do forests or coral reefs or estuaries have rights to legal protection (as…
Crowd-Sourcing the Future
“Madness is rare in individuals, but in groups, parties, nations and ages it is the rule. ” Friedrich Nietzsche This text appears on a refrigerator magnet on our major appliance. It happens to be sitting on my desk just now…
Overstuffed Thanksgetting
“The world is too much with us, late and soon. Getting and spending we lay waste our powers. Little we see in nature that is ours. We have given our hearts away…” Wordsworth If the Earth was a conscious being…
Sometimes, The Eddies
It is not easy standing your ground in a raging river. It takes constant vigilance lest you be swept off your feet and disappear below the surface of muddy and turbulent waters. In those times, it takes all the energy…
Another Million or Two
That’s how many additional shale gas drilling wells are predicted to be included in the “all of the above” energy menu of our President and the Virginia Governor. Add up what that means to your children’s future. Do the accounting of…
Without Water, We Are So Much Dust
What! You’ve never been to Floyd EcoVillage on Franklin Pike? What? You thought we had aquifers like other places, or that we had plenty of pristine water forever in Floyd County? If you answered NO to question number one and…
Our Water Future: The Floyd Story
Come join our community at the premier showing of a newly released, independent documentary about Floyd County’s precious water resources. The film titled “To the Last Drop” was created and filmed right here in Floyd, and features some of our local landowners…
Natural Gas: The Bridge is OUT
Naomi Oreskes is known to me from the brilliant Merchants of Doubt on the truth-management practices “from tobacco to global warming.” As she considers our energy future,  if we continue down the path we’re on,  she says we follow a “Green Bridge…
This is My Father’s World
You perhaps know by now that Floyd County is on the map of the proposed route of a large inter-state natural gas pipeline. [su_button url=” ” target=”blank” style=”soft” background=”#a1c8ea” color=”#1f1717″ size=”5″ wide=”yes” center=”yes” radius=”5″ icon=”icon: thumbs-up” icon_color=”#ffffff” text_shadow=”1px 1px 0px…
The Future: What Happens in Our Back Yards Today
I woke up this morning wondering what it was I thought about the potential of a 42″ x 20 mile long natural gas pipeline across Floyd County. This is not an easy challenge to understand, even from how it settles in…
Welcome to the Plasticene
You might [or more likely might not] have noticed a marked shift here at the blog away from content with any hope of lifting environmental, sustainability or human-culture topics up into the radar. The blog readership has morphed far away…