Lots of folks have made this point, but here’s a particularly good piece on the subject, called "Beware the EcoMoms," by Laura McKenna. She begins by caustically pointing out that New York Times reporters don’t get along well with moms, especially those of the suburban variety, which in my limited-but-personal experience is absolutely true, andContinue reading “You Can’t Save the Earth by Buying #$@!”
Category Archives: thinking out loud
Understanding Drought: Lesson One
From a useful op-ed in today’s Los Angeles Times: In January, it rained a lot in Southern California. The usual street intersections flooded. Water tumbled down the Los Angeles River. And houses in areas ravaged by fires last fall seemed in danger of sliding off their hilltop perches. It was chaotic, as always — butContinue reading “Understanding Drought: Lesson One”
Debt Pollution: A Metaphor Spreads
In the February Harper’s is an absolutely mesmerizing piece by a financial trader on the nature of bubbles. Because it’s mostly behind a paywall, there’s little pointing in linking here at this time, but I would like to copy and highlight one crucial passage, in which the author Eric Janszen talks about "debt pollution." AnotherContinue reading “Debt Pollution: A Metaphor Spreads”
Self Portrait with Chainsaw
One of my resolutions this year is to write more posts that will stand the test of time. I may not stand the test of time, but that’s half the point of photography, isn’t it? And I’m not a photographer, unlike my pal SFMike, but I can still make a camera work enough to fixContinue reading “Self Portrait with Chainsaw”
The Problem With Hippies
"It’s a fine line between inner peace and laziness." Emily Levett (my daughter, said this evening)
War is Over (If You Want It)
A very merry Christmasand a happy New Yearlet’s hope it’s a good onewithout any fear…
The End of Spend
Great headline (above) from a sidebar in Time on how to survive a recession. Any time you’re out of work, of course, you’re in a recession (and if you can’t get work, that quickly becomes a depression). Seriously. In economic terms, a recession is negative growth for two quarters in a row. That’s easily doableContinue reading “The End of Spend”
The Weather Outside, the Climate Inside
W. S. Di Piero, a favorite poet, published in Poetry (10/06) a wonderful selection of his notebooks, written during a moody stay in San Francisco. It’s not available on-line, unfortunately, but a key segment deserves recapitulation here nonetheless. What I wish to bring to your attention is his discussion of how our inner weather determinesContinue reading “The Weather Outside, the Climate Inside”
Turkey Mutterings
Visited the world famous La Brea tar pits of LA today (which are still bubbling methane quite merrily) and learned that indeed California did once have an indigenous turkey, but that it has gone extinct. After WWII the more familiar wild turkey from the East was introduced in various parts of the state, and naturalizedContinue reading “Turkey Mutterings”
America Has Not Enough Cuisine — And Too Much Food Science
So says Michael Pollan, in a fascinating interview with farmer and Gristian food journalist Tom Philpott. That’s the starting point, with much more insight to follow, including: I spent a lot of time looking at the science of nutrition, and learned pretty quickly there’s less there than meets the eye, and that the scientists reallyContinue reading “America Has Not Enough Cuisine — And Too Much Food Science”
Kit Stolz 