The Age of Missing Information.
How Big is Too Big? Global Warming and Moral Choices, ... The End of Nature
This is one of the biggest environmental stories of our time, and one of the only hopeful ones going on anywhere. It shows that if we're willing to back off, nature retains some resilience and can recover in many ways.
What actually makes people happy is full engagement
Barry Bonds is poised to pass Henry Aaron next year. That will be a very small taste of the assault on what accomplishment means when you start tinkering.
Local is the new organic.
The only part of this economy that has really begun to take form in this country is around food, and one of the earliest and most notable experiments of this kind in the country is Caretaker Farm.
I think people who don't know the woods very well sometimes imagine it as a kind of undifferentiated mass of greenery, an endless continuation of the wall of trees they see lining the road. And I think they wonder how it could hold anyone's interest for very long, being all so much the same. But in truth I have a list of a hundred places in my own town I haven't been yet. Quaking bogs to walk on; ponds I've never seen in the fall (I've seen them in the summer - but that's a different pond). That list gets longer every year, the more I learn, and doubtless it will grow until the day I die. So many glades; so little time.
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There is a tendency at every important but difficult crossroad to pretend that it's not really there.
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These new technologies are not yet inevitable. But if they blossom fully into being, freedom may irrevocably perish. This is a fight not only for the meaning of our individual lives, but for the meaning of our life together.
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It worries me because it alters perception. TV, and the culture it anchors, and drowns out the subtle and vital information contact with the real world once provided.
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