Updates
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UPDATE – POSTPONED UNTIL MARCH 26 Early-stage sustainable innovations face distinct challenges long before questions of scale arise. Moving from ideation and research into real-world use requires access to the right resources, partners, and pathways for adoption. In this session, Ashwathi Iyer will explore how innovators navigate this transition, drawing on concrete case studies that
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My sister’s father-in-law told someone that I “got my Ph.D. in weeds.” He’s not wrong. I studied native and non-native old-field plants in SE Michigan. This usually doesn’t really help when he or a friend has a question about a weed in Tennessee…but it does help me to notice the plants in the margins around
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Of all preserves, marmalade is my favorite. I prefer the tang of marmalade on my morning toast with tea, and I prefer making it rather than purchasing it. The recipes are simple: fruit, juice, a LOT of sugar, and time for soaking to extract the pectin from the fruit to jell the marmalade. These recipes
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I walk to keep my back feeling better, to shake off some of the despair of the pandemic, and to plan what to write when not in front of my screen with the blank whiteness telling me I’m empty when I’m not. This morning I walked in the sunny chill. As I crested a wooded
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And yet if we persist in believing that we alone, living in whatever culture we’re from, are right, and that we therefore have no need to listen to anyone else’s stories, stories that we often can’t quite understand and so are unwilling to discuss, we endanger ourselves. Barry Lopez, Horizon, pp 45-6. Right now, I’m
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But since Clark’s triumphs were those of a war leader, that is, the products of fear, pain, and opportunity, they were not stable. Clark’s mistake was to think them the larger triumphs of alliance.” Richard White, The Middle Ground (20th anniversary edition, 2011) p. 371 I’m reading, at Dave’s cousin Toby’s excellent suggestion, The Middle
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Loved this video from Doner for its beauty and storytelling: poignant and resonant.