WHERE DO THESE MUDDY FOOTPRINTS LEAD?
(A few excerpts from my research for Simple Prosperity, Tickling the Bear, and The New Normal) An ecological footprint is the total acreage of land and sea required to…
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September 5, 2022
Regrettably Finite
If you think of life on Earth as a game board, it’s clear why most of us enjoy playing. Damn, but life’s good on this familiar, nurturing planet! The pounding…
November 20, 2019
Where do These Footprints Lead?
(A few excerpts from Simple Prosperity, Waiting for Q, and The New Normal) An ecological footprint is the total acreage of land and sea required to cook up an individual…
November 1, 2019
The Currency of Nature
For the most part, mothers want us to be happy, right? When they used to tell us, “Go outside and play,” it wasn’t just because they were sick of us,…
March 25, 2013
Pitchfork Politics, New-Age Style
In these recent decades of flash floods, cracked earth and county-size forest fires, we small-scale farmers and gardeners are charring like cherry pies in an oven of political and cultural…
February 7, 2013
The Anthropology of Food, Part 4
Why Organic Food is Worth the Price Americans undervalue organic food both on the table and on the farm, for similar reasons. As a culture, we don’t yet recognize the…
April 2, 2012
