I’ve taken the East Pikeland Township, PA “Kimberton Low Impact Development Overlay” and modified it to be more or less generic. So the verbiage of the document below could be used just about anywhere as the basis for a township ordinance. Passage of ordinances such as this could facilitate the…

The latest issue of my Green Horizon Magazine is arriving in mailboxes this week. It gets sent to about two thousand. I don’t hold out the least expectation that it will be read by more than a hundred. Today Arthur Hoffman of Somerville, MA will receive it. Today he will…

https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/05/23/its-time-to-guarantee-health-care-for-all-americans-as-a-human-right/ It’s Time to Guarantee Health Care for All Americans as a Human Right BY BERNIE SANDERS 5/23/2023 Let’s be clear. The current healthcare system in the United States is totally broken, dysfunctional and cruel. It is a system which spends twice as much per capita as any other major…

Maisel’s last episode (after five seasons) will be Friday. She’ll appear on the Gordon Ford show as Joan Rivers appeared on (and then became the first female regular guest-host for) the Johnny Carson show. Marvelous was right up my alley. All those tropes and songs reminiscent of my childhood milieu. …

Rain magazine was one of our favorites during the 1980s and ’90s. https://www.rainmagazine.com In the spring issue of 1992 I saw an announcement of a conference sponsored by an interesting project. I got in touch and then watched the development of the EcoVillage at Ithaca.

S M P L C T Y: Ecological Civilization and the Will to Art Essays on the Aesthetics of Existence The Introduction provides detail on what he’s attempting to do in this project. The last section of it also provides short overviews of forthcoming essays. He’s planning to publish one…

this from my favorite current active theorist . . . - — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — - S M P L C T Y: Ecological Civilization and the Will to Art Samuel Alexander Essays on the Aesthetics of…

Population control is a good example of an issue where ecologically-oriented social change is more easily done within a communitarian context. https://medium.com/@martinrev21/why-overpopulation-is-a-much-bigger-issue-than-overconsumption-464fdececc43 “The simple idea of spreading the message that smaller families are a good thing for our planet, for our people is very powerful. We must build this message…

He is an environmental law specialist and an advocate for environmental justice. Through litigation lobbying, teaching, and public campaigns and activism, he has advocated for the protection of waterways, indigenous rights, and renewable energy. In 2018, the National Trial Lawyers Top 100 recognized two law firms for winning a $289…