Yesterday, I started putting the practical side of this blog into order. I started with ten new fruit crops that could restart a failing economy unable to retrain its young people, to […]
Ten More New Commercial Fruit Crops for the Okanagan
Ten New Commercial Fruit Crops for the Okanagan
When the Okanagan was first settled by Europeans and Americans, they planted European and American crops, although the hills were covered in food. Peaches, Such as This Now-Dying Tree, Were Originally Planted […]
Evolution and the Colour Blue
Take a look. The colour blue is the one first seen out of darkness. Look at it … The Rise Vineyard, Bella Vista Our fences can’t hold it, nor can they hold […]
Evolution: A Human Social Mirror
Bullock’s Oriole, blending in… This fellow divides his time between South America and this dry northern tip of his species’ range. California Quail (introduced species, so humans would have something to hunt), […]
Cities: The New Frontier
Let’s say you happen to glance off to the side of your city’s main street, right downtown, and see an amazing sculpture that not only looks dashing, but incorporates at least 500 […]
With Weeds We Thrive
Our planet is alive. When life is removed from a living earth by fire, it is still there. Indigenous Consciousness, Bella Vista In this landscape, the Syilx learned to live as this […]
Highways: Green Space
I know it’s counterintuitive, but look…… and here the ants are lending a hand … … and here a beekeeper, selling propolis and royal jelly and all kinds of super live-till-you’re-120 health […]
The Creative Economy and a Living Earth
Here’s how the earth came to be alive up on the hill. Spider Making the Most of Invasive Knapweed Here’s how the earth came to be dying up the hill. An investment […]
The Future Economy is Here
On Friday (click), I mentioned that the future is here. Now. Not tomorrow. Not on the second Tuesday after the signing of the Keystone Pipeline Accord. Right now. Look up. There it […]
True Green and False Economy
What passes for environmentally sound practices today are deep reflections of an economic system, but they’re not green, and they’re not going to ensure either the survival of the earth or of […]
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