Posts in deep ecology

UNFOLDING  I thought I knew what I was doing.   I made plans, I wrote lists, I got everything down on my calendar, and then it[…]

It all began with what seemed a rather frightened text from my big, tough landscapers who had been mowing my lawn while I was out[…]

It is Election Day in America, and I am frightened.  I am frightened of that knock on the door for thousands of immigrants who will[…]

It all began with a painting by Liza Adamczewski that appeared on my Twitter feed, depicting a perky brown wren singing its head off against[…]

Conversations with my daughter Lorien this summer led me to my latest flight into the stratosphere in an Impakter.com column: bit.ly/3LtF2qL

I have always assumed that we human beings have evolved as far as we can go, that our neo-cortexes are as advanced as they are[…]

Have you heard about courts endowing nature entities like rivers, wetlands, and even rice as “persons” with inherent rights? I am fascinated by this concept[…]

The tight little Snowdrop buds poking on stalwart green stems through the hard-packed snow tell me that spring is arriving, the whole earth regenerating itself[…]

“We may not have wings or leaves” like our fellow created beings, writes Botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer in Braided Sweetgrass, ” but we humans do[…]

I have long been a foe of either/or thinking, a logic that takes binaries as inevitably oppositional, with no compromise possible. I much prefer both/and[…]