I’ve been thinking a lot about Toby Hemenway’s blog post about what Permaculture is and what it isn’t. I really love his idea that it is a method like the scientific method. I think that we can be a bit more specific though and that specificity might be helpful.   Toby says that Permaculture is  Continue Reading »

“Coal” a musical by Molly Sturgis and Little Globe was at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe last night. It is still a work in progress, but was read and sung with live music in front of a large crowd. As a work of art it succeeded in evoking the deep mysteries of life and  Continue Reading »

A friend recently sent me this quote from Scott London’s interview with David Abrams (http://www.scottlondon.com/interviews/abram.html):”…the alphabet itself could be seen as a very potent form of magic. You know, we open up the newspaper in the morning and we focus our eyes on these little inert bits of ink on the page, and we immediately  Continue Reading »

In an era of decreased budgets at every level of government the disasters caused by storms like Super Storm Sandy present us real problems. They also are causing us to be creative and to form unique partnerships. While building hard infrastructure is expensive and time consuming, partnering with nature and allowing the re-establishment of buffering wetlands may be more cost and outcome effective. Our choices may have more to do with habit than rationality.