Archive for the ‘Eco’ Category
Cities. And earth. And living rooms in Seoul.
“It starts with looking at growing cities in a positive way–not as diseases, but as concentrations of human energy to be organized and tapped.” This series of photos accompanies the article I mention here, on urban living and the future of the planet. They are photographs of families in Seoul, South Korea, in their identical [...]
January 13th, 2012Trying to understand a boiling water reactor schematic diagram, to begin to understand Japan’s situation
This is the most unbelievable photo I’ve seen from the wreckage in Japan, because the mourning woman is so small compared to earth and its strength. We’re all so helpless in the face of that. Photograph from Asahi Shimbun, Reuters. I found it among National Geographic’s Japan earthquake/tsunami/nuclear coverage. If you’re like me, i.e. NOT [...]
March 15th, 2011“Let us begin by discussing the weather”
So spoke the southern historian U. B. Phillips at the start of his book Life and Labor in the Old South, which was published in 1929, and in which he argued the environment as having a very existent role in cultural development. Several generations of historians later, and the field of environmental history has expanded [...]
September 23rd, 2010Chew on this: happiness and health
I’ve been organizing myself a bit this summer, sorting through my closet, putting order to the items stored in my basement, and filing all of the accumulating papers within my desk drawers. Within the old notebooks that I cannot throw away (it is a curse), I’ve come across some notes I’ve made, reflections and ideas [...]
July 4th, 2008