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Forest Gardening: the Basis of a Local Economy of Life

Today, our Supreme Court (SCOTUS) decided 5 to 4 that there’s no limit to the $$ consumers of politicians can spend to buy them. I don’t think the word has been invented that describes our present form...

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Forest Gardening: the Basis of a Local Economy of Life, part 2

Neoliberalism will destroy everything including itself, but that doesn’t mean the human species will become extinct. I write this, prematurely, to the survivors (& please, may our grandkids be...

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About That Little Bit of the Dead Branch Brook In Westhampton That Is Home to...

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of meeting some folks who are interested in learning about the little bit of the Dead Branch Brook in Westhampton that is home to endangered species. Thinking it might be...

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Earth Day Gift: A Properly Darwinian Religion

Allow me to give you an Earth Day gift I’ve been trying to wrap up ever since I studied under an eminent Thoreau scholar who, in his first lecture, handed it to me—by saying: “For Thoreau, nature was a...

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What to think when your epistemology collapses…

“Epistemology” is a word that describes a system of knowledge and values. Every culture has an epistemology, as we find when we travel internationally and/or compare, say, Holland and Saudi Arabia....

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Don’t Be Afraid

Alan Lightman, of the physics & creative writing departments at MIT, has published an essay in the NYTs that expresses his fear of “nature” and of dying. It is wonderfully naive, and a perfect...

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“Placing” Northampton’s Bridge Street School

from Charles C. Mann’s book, 1491   Town Farm       shad bones below Turner’s Falls dam, July 2012     from Charles C. Mann’s book, 1491  

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On the Issue of “Race”: A Biocitizen’s Perspective

And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to...

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Deep Biotic Immersion: What it is

Deep biotic immersion is the experience of fully participating in the physical dynamisms of our living planet: or, more simply, it’s a spirit-rebooting experience of being alive. We are always “one...

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Biocitizen Corps—it’s Rapid Biotic Assessment time!

Biocitizens—it’s rapid biotic assessment time! Which means: time to get into the rivers and collect the bugs that live under rocks. Biocitizen Corps in action on the Dead Branch—collecting benthic...

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Rapid Biotic Assessments 2014

If you know what bugs live in a river, you can gauge its health. IDing river bugs, Mill River below Baystate, Northampton So, every year just as Summer slips into Fall, the Biocitizen Corps ventures...

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On the Issue of “Race”: A Biocitizen’s Perspective of the Obama Presidency

In part 1, we learned that there is no scientific basis for “race” and “racism” and, therefore,  both are “cultural constructs”—myths invented and used for centuries by European marauders to justify...

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Holyoke Needs Love: A Public Art Project by Biocitizen, HCC Art Professor...

Aesthetic value is a keystone of environmental philosophy. We love, and take care of, things we find beautiful. Biocitizen and HCC professor John Calhoun have made a commitment to work together for a...

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And Let the Dams Come Down

This month’s Ripple cross-posted from Hilltown Families: Life Will Return to Our Rivers! The challenge we (who value these nonhuman lives) face is to turn the immense powers we have to obstruct life...

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Our Bodies of Water

From this month’s Ripple: Stories about Western Mass Rivers, cross posted from Hilltown Families Biokids at Holyoke Dam The land is an organism, wrote Aldo Leopold, the Yale-trained game management...

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The Importance of River Walking

A note on learning and teaching the wild The wild is contrasted to the cultured, a contrast echoed in the difference between giant hogweed and carrots (both of the family Apiaceae), mountaineers and...

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Rapid Biotic Assessments 2015

The Biocitizen Corps was up to its knees in chilly flowing water again this Fall, catching and inventory the bugs who live in the substrates of our rivers and brooks. River bugs that trout love to eat,...

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Biocitizen’s comments on the USFWS’s Silvio Conte National Fish & Wildlife...

I do get excited about maps like this one, which shows new areas in Chesterfield and Westhampton the USFWS is proposing for conservation.   Here are the comments I sent USFWS, supporting “CCP...

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The Life Riparian

The Life Riparian (Cross-posted from Hilltown Families) Riparian is a strange sounding word that denotes “river bank”: the meeting point of river and land. We enter the “riparian zone” when we get...

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Biocitizen joins the Punta de Lobos Conservation Initiative

Happy! Biocitizen School is teaming with Superfun Chile to run Now Voyager, an 11-day field environmental philosophy (FEP) expedición for college students who want to learn to teach FEP. Departing from...

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