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Whitehead’s genius loci

Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged , , , , , , on June 20, 2016 | 2 Comments »

I was astounded to read the following passage as I sat in a cottage on the shore of Caspian Lake in Greenboro, Vermont, earlier today: “Work on ‘The Concept of Organism’ began with the summer of 1927, which the Whiteheads spent in a cottage on the shore of Caspian Lake, in Greensboro, Vermont. It was there […]

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GMO debate: New Yorker vs. Vandana Shiva

Posted in Eco-culture, Politics, tagged , , , , , , on November 3, 2014 | 1 Comment »

With its passage of Act 120 this past June, Vermont became the first U.S. state to require mandatory labeling of foods containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs). (This followed Connecticut’s and Maine’s decisions to require it once adjacent states do.) Since then, GMO food manufacturers have announced they will challenge that decision in court. Meanwhile, critics of GMOs […]

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Humming the new earth

Posted in Science & society, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on August 10, 2014 | 20 Comments »

[Note: This post has been edited slightly since it was first published, to clarify the difference between sound waves and radio waves. I have also posted several updates in the Comments section of this post, where I present my reconsidered views of what the “Global Hum” may be. I recommend reading those updates after you […]

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Nice or what?

Posted in Eco-culture, Visual culture, tagged , , on July 17, 2013 | 4 Comments »

The above is (a) beautiful, (b) ugly, (c) neither beautiful nor ugly in itself (nor anything else in particular), or (d) _________ (fill in the blank)? It’s a view (on a particularly hazy day) of the Sheffield wind power project in northeast Vermont, as seen from Crystal Lake State Park beach outside the town of […]

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Our little state capital goes Venice

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged on May 31, 2011 | 3 Comments »

http://youtu.be/RuzP4-N-9DM Hat tip to Cheryl at World of Music, who shares her own slide show here. And this is child’s play compared to the tornadoes and flooding in this country’s midwest.

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coming home

Posted in Eco-culture, Spirit matter, tagged on June 3, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Visiting Montreal is always enjoyable, even if the many overlapping conferences that are part of every year’s so-called Learneds kept me busier than I wanted to be. But there’s something about the trip back down to Vermont that has grown on me over the last seven years since I moved here. It’s not the border […]

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