Out in the wetland… …the Thule reeds teach the way. One just has to watch them over time. If one slows down to a span of three or four years, one can […]
A Lesson in Mat-Making and Basket Weaving
The Power of Disruption
Here’s the best way to preserve nature. Fence off your vineyard, so the deer have to go around, then dig out a slope far too steep, line it with rocks, and seed […]
Oh, Lego, You Have So Much to Answer For
We all need a place to live. In the world of creativity, there’s a place for everyone. If not, you can make one out of stuff lying around. Bridge and highway material […]
The First Net Maker is the Sea
Floats and everything. Human creativity is often only an act of environmental-belonging, like a grouse hiding its chicks in grass. It is the act of using the eyes as fingers for the […]
Wood Technology is a Gift
Many vital communities are called “hunter-gatherer” communities. That is not it at all! They are often societies of gift and acceptance and re-gifting. Water and stone sculpt wood. The resulting shapes reveal […]
How to Ask a Question of the Earth (and how to hear the answer)
Let’s be practical. Things are what they are. If you ask a question of the earth, you need to place something in the earth. It will answer, according to what you have […]
Artificial Intelligence 4: What Is Artificial?
So, Artificial Intelligence, eh. That’s dangerous stuff. Elon Musk: An Artificial Intelligence in the Flesh Now, when I call this very successful billionaire, flame-thrower manufacturer, battery man, car builder, rocketeer and sender […]
Artificial Intelligence in the Wetlands
I was talking about Artificial Intelligence last week: here. I will be expanding on my key points this week, but first one more foundational note. AI must have an environment if it […]
Poetry and Water
Does anything that touches water bend it? Or does the water bend to receive it? Is water subject to gravity? Or does it make an empty space under a willow tree, for […]
Giving the Children Water: The Bigger Educational Picture
Last night, I wrote about the benefits of environmental transformation that could come through the simple mechanism of attaching a wetland to every school in the Okanagan. It’s worth elaborating on, because […]
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