(This is an old post….from about a year ago….that I never published….squirreled away in case I was too tired to write something new. Wellllllllll……I’m too tired…so, here it is….) Hook a bunch of people up with electricity generating bicycles….at Burning Man….and … Continue reading →

From Stewart Brand’s website called the Long Now Foundation (full article here….) …..a poem written by a woman dying in hospice. Ostaseski ended with a story. One day at Zen Hospice in San Francisco he was in the kitchen reading a … Continue reading →

Here’s a couple of films about Douglas Tompkins, who founded the North Face and the Esprit companies. If that was as far as the history went, it would be a successful but boring story. Who wants to learn about another … Continue reading →

I guess that isolation can be good. I guess. I figure that it’s kind of nice to have some people around, though. I don’t know that this is really all that “perfect”. Maybe “good” in some ways, but not perfect. … Continue reading →

I listened to some talks that Yvon Chouinard gave a while back while I drove the mail around today. Noble stuff….capitalism with good intentions. I don’t involve myself with ecological activism much…. We’re too busy raising a family. We recycle….grow organically….all … Continue reading →