Category Archives: People and the Environment
Change in the air
As we breathe the fumes of a poisonous political atmosphere, there is plenty of reason to worry about our long-term health. We are reminded daily of the growing conviction that the answer to our country’s economic crisis is to assault … Continue reading
A Wild Thorn
I have passed nights with ascetics in the monastery, I have slept with infidels before the idols of the pagoda. I am the pangs of the jealous, I am the pain of the sick. I am both cloud and rain: … Continue reading
Biomimicry and Industrial Design?
May 6, 2011, marked the first etchings of a new tree ring in my life. I walked away from a marketing research career at the largest media company in Arizona in order to pursue another degree–this time in industrial design … Continue reading
Waters of the US
Much contemporary judicial interpretation supposes, in the words of Justice Scalia: “garbage in, garbage out.” Where a judge is confronted by a law, so long as that law is constitutional or not in direct conflict with another law, it is … Continue reading
The Call of the Coppersmith Barbet
All afternoon the Coppersmith Barbet on the fig tree beside the river had been tonking away: tonk . . . tonk . . . tonk . . . , his call reverberated over the steely-still waters of the Mahanadi, while … Continue reading
