Without planning, there is chaos. Goose and Gull Chaos Oh, wait, maybe it’s with planning that there’s chaos. Okanagan Paradise A park bench, a valley view, and the grassland hill behind. Might it be […]
The Urban Planning Paradox
Evolution and Randomness
Ah, evolution. Great Blue Heron on His Barn Roof, Watching for Mice Below (Click.) Is evolution a random process? Is life itself random? Did life arise on earth randomly and then develop randomly? […]
Ideology is an Invasive Weed (Part One)
Sad news. My beautiful lake, with its jewels of melting ice reflecting the sky … is a bit of a sewer, too, when the freezing line gets in close to shore and […]
Human Nature
What is nature? I’ve been asking people, and they’ve been looking at me strangely, and have said things like, well, you know, green stuff. Sometimes people answer like this, too: natural things. Or […]
Cryptozoology is Dead
Take a look. This is N’ha-a-itk. Maybe you’ve heard of this creature from the time when all people and the earth and the creatures were one, through the lens of a little colonial […]
Bringing the Sky Down to Earth
The image below is a habitat for Canadians. I am one of those. We build structures out of trees we allow to grow as weeds on indigenous land, and line them with […]
The Seventh Dimension
Yesterday, I explored six dimensions of bodies on the grasslands. I’d like to show you the seventh today. I’d like to talk about ethics. Let me introduce you to one of the […]
Environmental Accounting & Poverty
In my last post, I spoke about the Old Norse concept of a tun, a farm yard constructed at the intersection of social and physical earths. I argued that tuns created the […]
There Is No “Post-” in Post-Colonialism
I walked up the hill across the valley today, to get into the fog. No, this isn’t today. This is the spring of 2012. But that’s part of the hill in the […]
Lost Knowledge: Apples and Culture
I weep. At the beginning of the 1980s, I grafted the first Fuji apples in this country, as part of an attempt to free us from the trade rules of the Canadian […]
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