Category: Local&GLobal Economies

In memory of the victims of Cancer Alley, an 85-mile stretch between Baton Rouge and New Orleans   For many years, I have thought that I would outfit my roof with solar panels. They’re expensive and it would take quite a few years before any economic benefit would accrue. I investigated how to build a solar …

The reading of two articles, The Coronation, by Charles Eisenstein, The Pandemic is a Portal, by Arundhati Roy, a book, How Shall I Live My Life? On Liberating the Earth from Civilization, by Derrick Jensen, inspired this essay.   The Lesson Few would deny that an interesting experience is passing through us. Our responses to …

I’ve missed sharing my thoughts, ideas and experiences.  With well over a year’s worth of thoughts and stories that could have filled far more than four publications, I thought I would highlight the most impressionable ones, those that have caused me to reflect, broaden my vision and challenge my assumptions. These vignettes are in no …

“We are told by those who have studied the processes of nature that creativity happens at the border between chaos and order. Chaos is a prelude to creativity. We need to learn, as every artist needs to learn, to live with chaos and indeed to dance with it as we listen to it and attempt …

I wrote a four page entry for ARS&T; after inserting and editing the photos, I tried to save the file. The window continuously opened so that I could hit “save,” even after I “believed” I had saved the file. Finally I get a “Word is not responding.” I copy the document with the idea of …