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A graphic depiction of Gaia from Pixabay, showing that we are connected to each other, to our ecology, and to everything else. That everything in the entire universe, not just earth bound systems, all somehow link together.   Can We Understand Complexity or Only Sense It? Complex situations affecting humans baffle us and often stir […]

This is one variation of Ouroboros, a snake eating its own tail — doesn’t recognize its own tail.. Here Ouroboros is also shown in the form of the universal symbol for infinity, signifying deep, hidden feedback connections that we might never be able to fathom with human brains.   Covid-19 as a Complex Process Most […]

The Economy Critically Disrupts the Balance of Nature  Black Lives Matter demonstrations all over the world crowded Covid-19 out of the news, swelling into a pandemic of demonstrations in small towns as well as big cities on six continents. Triggered by the death of George Floyd, many local protests called out police abuses of people […]

    Planet of the Humans, movie by Michael Moore and Jeff Gibbs Moore and Gibbs’ movie appears calculated to incite controversy. If so, they certainly roiled the environmental community. So far, it’s received little mainstream attention, and a few environmental activists are demanding that it be pulled because it is misleading – and also, […]

Finding Our Real Reserves April 7, 2020  Covid-19 and its economic tailspin presage many more crises to come. We must change how we live and how we think. Our economic objectives have set us up for Covid-19, with more debacles on the way. What we have assumed to be success, isn’t. We yearn to return […]

              Above: Model of the Corona Virus. At Right: Diagram of our proper priorities: Earth first; us second; profit third. Or, should profit be no more than a systemic convention?   Collapse Now and Avoid the Rush First in a Series “Collapse Now and Avoid the Rush” is a […]

  Legal Creep Or why we think there is no alternative to economic expansion A better sub-title for this essay with two book reviews might be “can we escape our self-deception that economic expansion is necessary?” Whether economic expansion is labeled capitalist or socialist, we insist that we must “grow.” Escaping this mindset stretches our […]

Most lawns reduce biodiversity.The video is over two years old, but it touches on a subject that popped up in science news three times this past week, here, here, and here. Scientists fear that we are losing insects at a rapid rate, and if they go, with them goes much other plant and animal life. Why […]

Most of us like complex matters to be reduced to something that we can readily understand, using analogies that we can relate to. A molecule with its atoms can be represented by little balls that you can see, a false representation, but from it you can visualize a picture of something you can’t see, so […]

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School Food and Existential Crises by Doc Hall This is a nice chat with Alisa Simpson, school lunch administrator in Portage, MI, near Kalamazoo. She peels back the tangled web in which school lunch programs are caught as various interests compete to influence what kids eat, and how long they have to do it (18 […]