May 6, 2007
We are what we eat, and the choices we make about food matter in terms of our personal health, the health of the soil, and energy consumption. So, to act on our good environmental intentions, and to connect ourselves more deeply with our local community, we joined with another couple to purchase a Community Supported [...]
December 9, 2006
Ever since we lived in England in 1996-7, we have maintained a subscription to the Economist magazine. We appreciate its international coverage and clever sense of humor. Its photo editors/photo caption writers get me laughing quite often–I still chuckle over the “Greetings, earthlings” cover of Kim Jong Il. Anyway, I typically disagree with their political [...]
October 9, 2006
Been dipping back into ecology recently, reading two pop-sci books: Jared Diamond’s Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed and E.O. Wilson’s The Future of Life. In response, I wrote a much longer post that was basically a bunch of whining about it all. Feel grateful there is a delete button. I am looking [...]
not particularly objective musings on odds and ends – Dunrie Greiling, Ann Arbor, MI 48105