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Good (enough) Choices in Bad Times
Good (enough) Choices in Bad Times I have spent most of my adult life experimenting and teaching lifestyle choices that actually ripple up from personal change to social benefit. Yet in the face of this pandemic, these can-do approaches to life’s basics sound tinny. Our freedom of motion is constrained. How are we to […]
What Might We Learn from COVID-19?
What Might We Learn from COVID-19? COVID-19 has much to teach us about compassion, caring, gratitude, cooperation and truth. We need to thank our news media for keeping us informed, especially at this particular moment when falsity and division abound. Leaders supporting “fake news” and “alternative facts” have failed to address a pandemic in time […]
Farm-Labor Crisis under COVID-19 Sends Countries Scrambling
Farm-Labor Crisis under COVID-19 Sends Countries Scrambling Miserable, crowded living conditions of Europe’s foreign farm workers put them at much greater risk. And they’re staying away. In one of the many paradoxes of the new world we live in, Western European countries that have seen millions of jobs wiped out in a matter of weeks […]
The Road to Perdition is Paved With Evil Intentions–A Final Reckoning
THE ROAD TO PERDITION IS PAVED WITH EVIL INTENTIONS – A FINAL RECKONING In Part 1 of this article I pointed out how we have allowed ourselves to be cowed by authoritarian “experts” who have proven to be nothing but incompetent and wrong every step of the way, while the financiers have used the crisis once again […]
Farmers’ Markets Are Safe, Support Local Food
Farmers’ Markets Are Safe, Support Local Food That’s the message from the BC government as some vendors also move online. The long-running market is a staple in the Fairfield Gonzales area, and uses space owned by School District 61, the City of Victoria, and the neighbourhood’s community association, giving Goulet three landlords to wrangle. For […]
25 Million People Under Tornado Watch On East Coast
25 Million People Under Tornado Watch On East Coast A severe weather system is pummeling the East Coast on Monday, with at least 24 people dead in the South. The storm is moving up the coast this afternoon, making its way across the Mid-Atlantic and into the Northeast. At least 25 million people on the […]
Limits to Growth and the COVID-19 epidemic
Limits to Growth and the COVID-19 epidemic Forty-eight years ago I led an 18-month study at MIT on the causes and consequences of growth in population and material production on the planet earth through the year 2100. “If the present growth trends … continue unchanged” we concluded, “the limits to growth on this planet will […]
Coronavirus Shutdown: The End of Globalization and Planned Obsolescence – Enter Multipolarity
Coronavirus Shutdown: The End of Globalization and Planned Obsolescence – Enter Multipolarity The coronavirus pandemic has shown that the twin processes of globalization and planned obsolescence are deficient and moribund. Globalization was predicated on a number of assumptions including the perpetuity of consumerism, and the withering away of national boundaries as transnational corporations so required. […]
Planting Seeds in Crisis
Planting Seeds in Crisis Food and seed sovereignty in uncertain times As governments of more and more countries introduce various kinds of lockdowns (1) during the ongoing virus “pandemic” (1), we appear to be experiencing what many would say is an unprecedented global “crisis” (see for example 2). This article will explore the opportunities inherent […]
What the Sunrise Will Show
What the Sunrise Will Show A storm blew in late last night, dropping trees and powerlines and sweeping the porch of all chairs, bowls, and benches. At 5 a.m. I took a short walk to take stock of the yard and barnyard areas before returning to my desk to type this post. Now, waiting for […]
Little Managers
Little Managers It’s funny how things go sometimes, how times roll -not just the good ones-. I said last week that all the world’s “leaders” had failed terribly, and I’m not taking that back. They all failed to a horrific extent at their no. 1 task when it comes to Disasters, Pandemics, whatever their respective […]
How We Reduced Our Water Usage by 90%
How We Reduced Our Water Usage by 90% Spoiler alert: it was mostly an accident. See, the other day I was half way through writing a lovely little post about how we fertilize our garden for free when my fingers chanced to alight upon our water bill, freshly arrived in the mail. Idly I opened […]
Krakatoa Eruption in Indonesia – Dawn of a Volcanic Winter?
Krakatoa Eruption in Indonesia – Dawn of a Volcanic Winter? Krakatoa has once again erupted on April 11, 2020. The risk of a more serious eruption extends into August 7th, 2020. Indonesia has over 130 active volcanoes, the most of any nation. Of course, there remains the legendary eruption of Krakatoa which culminated in a series […]
Top Pentagon Generals Warn Enemies Not to Attack
Top Pentagon Generals Warn Enemies Not to Attack Instead of focusing on peace-making, military tries to hype readiness With a growing number of reports showing the Pentagon absolutely getting pounded by coronavirus, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley issued a statement warning that US readiness remains intact, and that no nation should test the […]
