are we fighting against the plastic that ends up in landfills and in oceans, or the total energy used (global warming gasses expelled) to create the mult-iuse bags? We’re probably not the first time there’s been a civilization in the universe,” states Adam Frank, a professor of astrophysics at the University of Rochester and the …
It follows that the institution of a leisure class acts to make the lower classes conservative by withdrawing from them as much as it may of the means of sustenance and so reducing their consumption, and consequently their available energy, to such a point as to make them incapable of the effort required for the …
“While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free._ Eugene V. Debs I had a short confab yesterday with four elementary teachers after doing my substituting for a 6th grade class whose …
how can poets fly outside the frame that holds humanity in the ecological balance of Taker Society** I think poetry, if it’s going to be really engaging and engaged, has to be able to come at the issues of our lives from all kinds of angles and all kinds of ways: loudly and quietly, angrily …
Climate change’s ‘evil twin’ Ocean Acidification (and problem stepchild, Ocean Hypoxia) People ask: Why should I care about the ocean? Because the ocean is the cornerstone of earth’s life support system, it shapes climate and weather. It holds most of life on earth. Ninety-seven percent earth’s water is there. It’s the blue heart of the …
A World is Right When We Learn to Preserve and Embrace the Word Like a Poet Riffing off of Aldo Leopold’s: “A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.” by Paul Haeder / April 1st, 2019 Special for Dissident …
Look, ground-truthing is always going to come from someone like me who has taught in a whole hell of a lot of schools, from Newport, OR, to Vancouver, WA, from Seattle to Spokane, El Paso to Austin. And many more. Taught in prisons, in military compounds, homeless shelters, halfway house, and, shoot, more places. This …
Note: I am on the Central Coast of Oregon where I have undertaken rooting myself somewhat in the culture, in the history and in the future of this place. I’ve been working with students in K12 as a substitute for all levels, all categories of teaching. I’ve joined Surfrider and the American Cetacean Society. I’ve …
“The…truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty.” — Michael Parenti Goddamn, this is one messed up country, one messed up freak show! The serious nature of America’s collective insanity covers both dangerous species who toilet paper themselves either in donkey or elephant manure. This society runs on madness, on the collective …
Note: I substitute teach in Lincoln County, Central Oregon, on a magnificent coast that is going downhill quickly: clear cuts up to the beach, more and more development blocking natural estuary systems, biohazards (solids) spread throughout the farming community, more people, more plastic, more crab pots, more whale and pinniped entanglements, no more sea stars, …
