At a certain point, when physical and social urban space is continually built out of practical considerations, usually the manipulation of people for purposes of efficiency and budgetary accountability, the city becomes […]
Kelowna: The Inhuman City
The Sparrow Knows
You’re not alone.It’s not just social structures that bring you together. The right environmental structures do so as well.
Eliminate Black Plastic Now
This is today’s post on creating a sustainable Okanagan. Like the others, it is archived above. Black plastic sheeting serves 4 purposes, but all look like this: It warms the soil for earlier crops. […]
Landscaping for Water Capture
Welcome to the second of a series of posts on creating a sustainable Okanagan. They are archived on the menu bar above. Today: smart water. Read on… Wherever there is a crack, […]
Vancouver’s 2016 Colonization of the British Columbia Interior, Illustrated
Note: Since this article was written, Canadian Art has corrected its geography, and now describes its outpost, correctly, as in the Interior. That is welcome. The critique of elite privilege is still […]
The Irony of California Quail Wisdom
Beautiful quail, looking out at the world. What doe he see? Not the world!
Environmentally Friendly House Trends in the Okanagan: Your Choice
Single Family Detached House. Lots of room to play your own music. Multi-story Condominium. Best to keep the music down and enjoy the company. It’s your choice. ~ Top: Red Wing Blackbird, […]
High Quality Apples in the Okanagan Valley?
Yesterday I showed you how the lack of art in farming, and the lack of memory, is rendering the land not only valueless but turning it into debt. Today, I’ll show you […]
Aesthetic Mindfulness
Sympathetic magic is a complex term for a simple phenomena: in pre-Enlightenment culture, the power of objects was believed to derive from similarities between them; knowledge of these similarities, and the ordering […]
Spiritual Life and Wealth in the Okanagan
Do the wealthy build monuments to their power on spiritual sites because they recognize them or because they don’t? Temples were once built by the wealthy for the gods. Now they are […]
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