Reading the recent NPR article “Innovation Seen As Key To Curbing Climate Change”, I was intrigued by Dan Sarewitz’s analogy to agricultural innovation. One example is how America transformed agriculture over the past century. The United States government created a highly successful, century-long effort to make food more abundant and affordable. “And it didn’t do [...]
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History
It’s a historic day for the United States and the world. God bless the new President of the United States.
Sir Edmund Hillary, R.I.P.
Sometimes when people do something extraordinary in their life, it overshadows everything else they do. It’s always great to be able to celebrate the life of someone like Sir Edmund Hillary who did something wonderful, and then live a life of grace and achievement which rivaled the original accomplishment. It’s also a good time to [...]
Pete Wilson, RIP
In May I was one of the speakers at Eco Live!, an event we co-hosted with KGO in San Francisco. As part of the event, I did an hour of live radio with Pete Wilson, afternoon radio host at KGO. Pete and I discovered we were both from Wisconsin, and he used that to really [...]
Happy 4th
Leavin’ Texas, fourth day of July, Sun so hot, the clouds so low, the eagles filled the sky. Catch the Detroit Lightnin’ out of Sante Fe, The Great Northern out of Cheyenne, from sea to shining sea. Hope everyone’s getting some downtime this week. If you get some spare time, think of what you can [...]
Democracy in Action
Here in Concord, Massachusetts we run things the way they have since before the Revolutionary War – we get together at town meetings in person to debate and vote on the legal and operational aspects of the town. Town meeting opened tonight with some notes that were taken in the special town meeting of Dec. [...]
Memorial Day
Remembering everyone who gave their life for the sake of us and this great country. We aren’t perfect, but we need to keep trying to be, if not for ourselves, then at least for those who have believed in us in the past.
My Eco Heritage
Just discovered that the Douglas Fir was actually named after a guy named David Douglas! Cool history and link to the history of the Sierra Club, whose magazine I’m featured in this month. (I don’t, however, envy his death, other than the Hawaii part)
2006 – The Year that Wasn’t
Everyone likes to write summaries for the past year, but given the way 2006 went I’ve decided to talk about some of the things that didn’t happen. No direct terrorist attacks against the US. This was probably part luck, part good planning, and part lots of people doing their part to keep the country safe. [...]
Bye Bye 109
“Today is the last day of the 109th Congress. They worked for 218 days over the course of two years. And 19 of them, 15 Republicans and 4 Democrats were, or still are, under federal investigation. Great job guys. Don’t let the door hit you.” (Via GOOD Magazine.)
