Science is a powerful tool. It’s built on a couple of foundational principles: 1. there is someone watching, 2. only what that person sees can be studied, and 3. only what is […]
Creating a Science That Includes the Earth
Photography and Human Survival
Pretty sumac leaves, huh. Look again below. Culturally, in Canada, people have the right to cut sumacs down like this and stack them up beside the street so they look like this the […]
What the Poets Know And Ecological Science Might Learn
Poets, photographers, sculptors and painters know how to read. That might seem commonplace. What I mean is that the knowledge dancers have of the movement of their bodies in space is embodied […]
Environmental Consciousness is Not Optional
Goethe, the poet, pointed out that all plants express one single energy, that opens through the life cycle of each plant as well as through the diversity of all plants. In his […]
Seeing in the Dark: A Meditation on Science, Art and Human Nature…part 1
I was walking the other day, as I like to do (it’s a way of thinking and breathing at the same time), when I felt myself walking into something and, you know, I […]
The Future of the Earth
I love the world that scientific method has uncovered, but I also know that there is a way of mapping the world that does not include scientific descriptions of the flow of […]
The Best Art Gallery
The water above, the sun caught in the art of the vines, the desert of the earth…. … this is ancient stuff. We can dress it up with triple-blind, peer-reviewed studies of water, air […]
Beauty and Science
Science is a cultural product, no less so than this: Canadian Garden Decoration, Orchard Hill Not only has the lion lain down with the lamb but it looks like one, too! […]
The Technological Applications of New Scientific Thinking
I promised I would talk about practical applications for science based on observing the world in its own language. (This is commonly called phenomenological science, but I’m trying to find a simpler […]
Earth Talking: The Language of Science Part 4
There are many ways to talk about the earth. One is to speak about it in its own terms. Take the word height, which means hill and head all at once. It’s related […]
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