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January 2025

Questioning lithium-ion batteries, fire risks & hydrating dry regions
While finishing this Substack, I learned about the explosive fire that started January 16, 2025 at Moss Landing, California’s Vistra Power Plant, the…
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What the world needs now is directions for reducing our dependence on technology
Last month, Geoffrey Hinton, godfather of artificial intelligence (A.I.), winner of the 2024 Noble Prize in physics, warned that there’s now a 10% to…
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December 2024

The Whole Elephant: The Best of 2024
When I read about households or communities that claim to reduce their ecological footprint by using solar PVs, industrial wind turbines, batteries…
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It’s just before midnight—and I need skills
To locate humanity’s place in the world, the late David Brower, father of the modern environmental movement, considered the Earth’s four and a half…
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Skillset #2 for A Brave New World: Know Your Bioregion
Inspired by the 1981 Bioregional Quiz developed
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November 2024

October 2024

Before, during and after Election ‘24
While our polarized country faces an election, I wonder what matters most.
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Inspiration & Education
Check out Julia Barnes’ extraordinary watercolors of marine creatures—like the right whale she painted, above.
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A recipe for respecting nature and technology’s limits— and another for exploiting them
Recipes are works-in-progress.
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September 2024

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