It is possible to talk to a flower. Like this: With nothing before you but a flower, you can deduce that a flower is a series of specialized leaves, opening not just […]
Two Ways to Approach a Flower: Outing Goethe and Heidegger One Bloom at a Time
Squeezing Water from a Stone
In today’s world, folk (indigenous, ie “of the land”) understandings are redefined to accord with the social authority that accompanies the process called science. In this revolutionary society, attempting to create a […]
The World is Simple, and Then There Are Crows
There are, for example, circles. You can see one below, above the Brecon Beacons in Wales, high up. Before we give a good modern stab at explaining it as the Moon, we […]
Solar Water Storage and Capture
Up on the hill, where it is cold, there is snow. There are also rocks, which heat in the sun. The hot rocks melt the snow, making lakes of ice, and then […]
New Land Use Regulations for Okanagan Grassland Communities
Communities include grass and flowers, animals, insects, birds, trees, water, gravity, people, sun, rock, dust, soil and wind. Each contributes to maintaining a community balance. ANew communities built in the grasslands need […]
Sun and Earth at Balance in the Winter Snow
The human eye is gifted at reading scenes in colour, like the pool of water and ice in the snow below. Such blues and purples, it tells us! Such golds and dazzling […]
After the Fire, A Little Global Cooling
Far from the fires of summer and fed by the torrential rains of November, the lichens are in their full glory right now. Worldwide, lichens take as much carbon out of the […]
Can We Even See Water?
In a way, yes. It’s a camera that sees as precisely as this, concentrating on light. It picks up patterns. Intriguingly, we do have to look at the patterns and see what […]
The Human Bias in Narratives About Climate Change
We are a curious bunch. We create groups through social interaction, but otherwise run around independently of each other and of the stuff we run around on, and when that running is […]
Global Warming & Cooling Cycles, Okanagan Style
When the apple trees are pumped full of nitrogen and water to make the apples big and keep them from burning when they can’t get cool in the summer sun, then some […]
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