I thought, fast forward ten years, that this would have been the book I wrote after rejecting the rat race and living off the land. Well, none of those things have quite happened yet (except, the rat race has been pretty much ignored in our house) but the book got written anyway- just, not by [...]
I have really been appreciating Michael Pollan’s recent tour circuit for his latest book Food Rules. With both The Daily Show and Oprah he has been hitting mainstream media with really important messages about food production and culture and is doing so is a way that is straight, truthful and ultimately seems easier for people [...]
I realize that of all the animals in the world mice do not exactly get a lot of sympathy and most people are pretty comfortable with killing them especially when they inhabit and muss up, if not partly destroy, parts of our houses. The mouse that Robert Burns turns up in her nest with his [...]
I recently posted this piece on the Pop!Tech blog to share some of the ways my thinking about the recent election had been shaped by reading Margaret Wheatley’s book Leadership and the New Science. Wheatley’s work calls for the application of new science’s understanding of the nature and operation of the universe to how humans [...]
Recent coverage of changes in consumer spending, particularly on food choices, has unfortunately seemed to beat the drum of “you’re on your own” economics rather that looking at how limited resources can bring people together and also shift priorities as people see the connections between the choices they make and the world we live in.
Consumer [...]
So much work ahead and doesn’t it finally feel like it will make real difference?
