Yes, no more do you have to zip on down to the gas pump to fuel up your tiller with refined tar sand goo. No more do you have to sit in […]
Environmentally Friendly Rototiller
Farms For All
Welcome to purslane, a nutritious vegetable used extensively in Middle Eastern cooking, so native to the region that it sprouts up in the cracks of sidewalks and is harvested from there … […]
Weevils Among the Flowers
‘Tis the season for flowers to go a-blooming. Dandelion after Yesterday’s Four Inches of Snow Went Away Oh, who’s that hiding behind the flower, being all shy, like? When we were all […]
Earth Bucks: A New Economic Model
Even in dry country, water falls from the sky. Along the way, it imitates gophers. Yes, gophers. Here’s what the gophers are up to: Sorting Rock! It’s the season for moving out […]
The Starlings are Restless
Ah, Autumn, season of mists and mellow fruitfulness…That’s what the poet said. Hardly! A Group of Starlings Gather in a Vertical Home Sewage Dissipation Apparatus Keats was right, there’s a lot of […]
Ogopogo From the Air, and a Story for You
Here’s the Ogopogo, seen from the air just after Thanksgiving … Mid-Okanagan Lake, with Ogopogo Photo: Anassa Rhenisch. Thanks for giving, Anassa! For the full story of this corner of the lake, why not […]
That Old Watery Moon: A Year of Walking and Learning
Moon’s hanging around all day now. Frost in the tomatoes by the lower fence. Potatoes in the cellar. Light everywhere. Earth and Moon with Human Signature Humans are life. They love views […]
A Year of Walking & Learning Part 3
My walkabout in the last year has led through the fields of industry, innovation, and education. What I have found comes from observing the earth. Its raw materials are gravity, rock, the […]
A Year of Walking and Learning
It has been a year now since I started walking into the hills with my camera as a way to write two books: one about energy and the land, and the other […]
Stopping a River Dead in Its Tracks
When Jonathan Schell published his anti-nuclear argument, The Fate of the Earth, in 1982, one of his main arguments against nuclear proliferation was that the destruction of life on earth would render all life […]
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