Category: Nature
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Blessed Unrest: Environmental and Social Justice for All … or Bust!
In his latest book (and video), environmentalist, entrepreneur, journalist, and author Paul Hawken achieves a remarkable balance between breadth and depth in arguing that in order to restore environmental and social balance on this earth, we must strive for both, or we will achieve neither. Noting that "we are nature", and thus however we treat…
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Seeing What I Want To See: Whale Watching … and WMD
Near the start our recent family vacation along the Oregon coast, we walked up Cannon Beach into the downtown area. During our northerlywalk, we passed several groups of people on the beach who appeared to be deeply engrossed in something to the southwest. I have trained myself, over the years, to ignore spectacles, as to…
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Dances with Coyotes
Our yard appears to have been adopted by a coyote, who is spending more of his or her time taking meals by our compost heap. On the one hand, I enjoy the prospect of being so close to this animal, and I’m sure I’m being influenced, in part, by memories of the movie Dances with…