I think what has astonished me the most this week is how (sometimes unwittingly?) destructive humans are. I had time to muse on this as…
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Collie
Dashing and eclectic scholar-about-town. Have laptop, will travel!
What is Community? part 4: Lupin Lodge
I’ve written several posts now on Paolo Soleri’s Arcosanti, and his vision of cities as mostly-self-sufficient, compact communities instead of sprawling and isolating urban blights…
Continue ReadingWhat is Community? part 3: Soleri’s definitions
So does CoH qualify as a community? Does Arcosanti as it stands today, or Lupin Lodge? Paolo Soleri (who is still alive, though I speak…
Continue ReadingWhat is Community? part 2: City of Heroes
What causes a feeling of community? What creates a coherent sub-culture? Both my housemates play on the on-line multiple-player game City of Heroes, which is…
Continue ReadingPlanning the Natural Yard
Okay, this posting is going to be a not-so-quick recap of stuff I want to keep track of for my yard work, and I’ll keep…
Continue ReadingMore on Griffin’s “Woman & Nature”
Susan Griffin’s ecofeminist book Woman & Nature: The Roaring Inside Her is considered ground-breaking in the field. Written in 1978 in a poetic and then-uniquely…
Continue ReadingYard photos: Before
Here are the handful of photos I took of my “Place in Nature” for my Ecofeminism independent study class: my front yard before I’ve tried…
Continue ReadingJournaling while reading Griffin’s “Woman & Nature”
Later edit: I’ve been informed I wasn’t clear regarding this posting — sorry! I should have said what I am describing, in my comments below,…
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I’m crossing my fingers that Carol (my professor for my independent study in Ecofeminist Philosophy & Activism) will like the idea of my using the…
Continue ReadingArcosanti photos
More Arcosanti photos; click on the thumbnails for a larger, clearer version of each photo. Also, you can read my thoughts on Arcosanti here, for…
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