climate… Star Trek or Little House on the Prairie, the Red/Blue Divide, and Imagining Complexly 10 Nov 201611 Nov 2016 The US election results of 8 Nov 2016 were a bit shocking to me. David Wong at Cracked.com provided a strikingly insightful explanation of why I and my ivory tower, liberal…
Culture Change… Cultivating Ecosystem Gardens of Health and Hope 20 Jun 2016 This is a talk I gave last week at the conference "Spontaneous Beauties?" World Gardens and Gardens in the World at NTU (YouTube video of practice talk, and SlideShare of…
Culture Change… Decolonizing Permaculture 28 Feb 201628 Feb 2016 An important, deeply thought, and carefully articulated response to some questions that have been gnawing at me for quite some time.
Culture Change Sustainability Strategies Sampler 28 Aug 201525 Jun 2017 I had to throw together a presentation for a Sustainability Salon at the beginning of this otherwise-very-busy-with-grant-writing week. Despite its hasty nature, I think there are some interesting and useful…
Culture Change… A Sustainable Alternative to Power Leaf Blowers 29 Aug 201229 Aug 2012 Leaf blowers are another pet peeve of mine (I collect them by the bushel). Here's a clever idea from Owen Dell that I found on the Terra Nova Landscaping blog: My dear…
Culture Change… Are you a nutter? 21 Sep 20115 Aug 2011 A Fall Field Guide: Nuts. Ah, Mother Earth News... I knew you when. In fact, I probably read this article when it came out in 1988, in the library at…
Culture Change… Pitchapalooza! « The Imagined Worlds of Michelle Yvonne Merrill 1 Aug 2011 Pitchapalooza! « The Imagined Worlds of Michelle Yvonne Merrill. A bit about the pitch for my latest fiction idea. I'm developing a young adult novel for a couple of strategic…
Culture Change… The Imagined Worlds of Michelle Yvonne Merrill 22 Jul 201122 Jul 2011 Greetings Earthlings! « The Imagined Worlds of Michelle Yvonne Merrill. Yep, I'm actually putting it out there... my writing projects have a public place. I'll also use that blog to…
disasters… “My bet is on the hairless monkey.” 29 May 201129 May 2011 From the Center for Pattern Literacy (Permaculture visionary and Gaia's Garden author Toby Hemenway's site) comes this refreshingly sober and calm blog entry on the realities of Peak Oil: Apocalypse, Not | Pattern…
disasters… Aftershocks 19 Mar 201119 Mar 2011 The immense human tragedy of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan is just starting to fade from the headlines. The crisis of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear facility is at a…
Ponderings of a Perplexed Primate 