What Is Sustainable

Tom Brown fascinates me.   He grew up in the sparsely populated Pine Barrens region of southern New Jersey.   When he was eight years old, ...

Canadian scholar John A. Livingston (1923-2006) was a pioneer in the deep ecology movement, and a notorious rogue thinker.   He detested th...

W. G. Wood-Martin (1847-1917) published Traces of the Elder Faiths of Ireland in 1902.   He wanted to document what was known about the sp...

Professor David Montgomery’s book Dirt provides a fascinating discussion about an extremely precious substance that we can’t live without, b...

Wes Jackson was born in Kansas farm country, in a place where his grandfather homesteaded.   The land of his birth was being destroyed by ag...

Throwing Fire by Alfred W. Crosby is a history of the human use of projectiles that covers the whole spectrum, from stones to space ships. ...

Folks who spend their lives staring at computer screens in vast corporate cubicle farms have a powerful tendency to drift off into vivid day...