Learning from my soil: the 2014 garden dialogue
In 2013 I asked my garden to tell me if the soil would benefit from re-mineralization. The answer is in. The next move in the dialogue is mine. Find out what I’ll be asking the soil to tell me in 2014.
scientific method
An Old Kind of Science
The attempt to conquer nature—in less metaphorical terms, to render the nonhuman world completely transparent to the human intellect and just as completely subject to the human will—was industrial civilization’s defining project.
What my garden told me in 2013
The results of the dialogue I conducted with my garden in 2013 are in. Did my hypotheses bear out? What questions did the garden ask and answer that I didn’t anticipate? You’ll have to read the post to find out!
Permaculture: The Big Rock Candy Mountain
When I first encountered permaculture, I assumed it had some new principles to suggest, was eager to test them, discard the lemons, and move on. I was wrong.
Science as Dialogue: What My Garden and I Are Discussing in 2013
How I’m using the scientific method to learn how to grow the most food possible in my backyard, and how other people can do so as well.
Food & agriculture – May 14
•Science as Dialogue: What My Garden and I Are Discussing in 2013
•Biofuels a big cause of famine
•Food Price Inflation as Redistribution: Towards a New Analysis of Corporate Power in the World Food System
•Over half the world’s population could rely on food imports by 2050 – study
•Agriculture and Livestock Remain Major Sources of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Arguing for Our Lives: A User’s Guide to Constructive Dialogue
"The universe is an undifferentiated whole. About that we can say nothing more." This catchy aphorism from political philosopher Bruce Wright may seem nonsensical at first glance, but is worth exploring in the service of deepening our intellectual humility. Facing multiple, cascading ecological crises, we humans need science more than ever and more than ever we need to understand the limits of science.