Are Rivers Persons? Have you heard about courts endowing nature entities like rivers, wetlands, and even rice as "persons" with inherent rights? I Regeneration! The tight little Snowdrop buds poking on stalwart green stems through the hard-packed snow tell me that spring is arriving, Dear Socratians DEAR SOCRATIANS For many years, I have been facilitating a Socrates Café © at our local library, where people ask Decision-Making with Reason, Emotion, and Decision Intelligence Do you have trouble making decisions? Have you tried a Pro and Con list? Tossed a Coin? Loaded your Evidence NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS? After the gatherings and feasting and general jollity of Christmastime, it is traditional to prepare for the stark winter months A Startling Joy Have you ever been knocked off your feet by joy? I don’t mean the moment when you spot your long-absent A Time of Darkness, a Time of Waiting It grows darker and darker now, for longer and longer. The sun sets as early as 5 in the afternoon, Affirmative Multiculturalism My New Impakter Article on the CRT Controversy There is a right way and a wrong way to teach the New Worlds, Web Update "We may not have wings or leaves" like our fellow created beings, writes Botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer in Braided Sweetgrass, Scientific Animism I have long been a foe of either/or thinking, a logic that takes binaries as inevitably oppositional, with no compromise The Tyranny of Merit and the Dilemma of the Disinherited I wrote this article earlier this month just before the Anniversary of the Tulsa Massacre was widely publicized: Meritocracy: Birmingham Eccentrics When I came to Birmingham for the first time in 1958, I thought the local newpaper was named The Birmingham Freedom in Structure We all got up to weird pursuits during the pandemic, so I don't think my sudden obsession with set forms Granular Politics: the Nitty-Gritty of Participatory Democracy Dear Blog Subscribers, After the riots on January 6, intended to stop our process of confirming Joe Biden's election and Trump, the Republican Party and the Attack on the U.S.Capitol: An American Progressive’s view Dear Blog Subscribers, This is my blog version of an article that was published in Impakter.com this morning: : https://impakter.com/trump-republican-party-attack-capitol/ My Review of Patrik Svensson, The Book of Eels Riddle me this: What is only a few millimeters long with a transparent body like a gossamer willow leaf, is Pandemic Autumn In the spring, I still had a sense of humor. I could write comic pieces about how my mask frightened Political Sausage in Pandemic Times Dear Blog Subscribers, Back in February 2019 (in what seems now another century!) I posted a blog on Making Political The Covid Stoic, and How to Become One If ever there was a time for figuring out what our philosophy of life is, it is now, when our Dara McAnulty’s Diary of a Young Naturalist (Little Toller Books: Dorset, 2020).* In a time when species are declining, oceans are rising, and our whole planet is threatened by global warming, authors 1 2 3 … 6 Next »
