Mac and Jack: Roughing it in the Sandwich Islands

Saturday, June 26, 2010

I’m just back at the mud hut after a too-short trip to the big island of Hawaii, where I visited a former student from the University of Arizona honors program. James was visiting Zimbabwe when the economy there headed south in a hurry, as I described here and here. We discussed his interest in ramping [...]

Is terminating the industrial economy a moral act?

Monday, December 14, 2009

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People often accuse me of inappropriate behavior because I propose bringing down the industrial economy. Interestingly, nobody seems too concerned about the morality of the big banks as they devise ways to profit from economic collapse (to be fair, some are advising their clients how to profit, too, from a collapse they foresee within two [...]

Politics and personal responsibility

Saturday, August 1, 2009

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I've long recognized the two-party, one-ideology basis of American politics, and I was calling Barack Obama a neoconservative long before it was popular to recognize him as the Teflon President 2.0. But even I can hardly believe this tidbit from a guy I thought was pretty damned smart: From the I-cannot-believe-this-is-happening camp, Obama is appointing a Monsanto man as food safety czar. Welcome to Farmageddon, land of the free.

A Friend of the Earth

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

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On the other hand, Ty's loneliness in a crowded world, induced by his intellect and his passion for the planet, remind me of an email message I received a few months back from a brilliant former student. It included this pithy line, which says, better than I ever have, my oft-felt sentiment: "Despite overpopulation I find the world a lonely place."

K-5 curriculum for the post-carbon era

Monday, May 11, 2009

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The quote is from one of my recent books, and I use it here to introduce a postcarboncurriculum.pdf (warning: this is a large pdf file). This report is based on a semester's worth of thinking and writing by two undergraduate students. I advised these two superb students on this independent-study project, which they sandwiched between full academic schedules and full lives.

Illegitimi non carborundum

Sunday, April 5, 2009

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Teaching? I'm doing the best work of my life. Scholarship? Likewise. Outreach? Ditto. Obviously, it's time for me to move along.

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