On a visit to a materials dump yard to pick up some logs to build some structures in the park, we noticed something interesting. The dump yard had been completely clear cut, dug up, and destroyed by all the trucks…
Getting to the Roots of “Nature”
*For more on this topic, see our post “Human/Nature Dualism, Contradictions, and the Energetics of Society“.* Ah yes, Nature. Eternal and pure, Nature (with a capital N) takes an almost Platonic form of elegance and perfection. Nature encompasses the birds and…
Fungi: The Forgotten Kingdom, The Missing Link
Fungi are largely ignored and misunderstood by modern society, though their abilities could offer solutions to a broad spectrum of issues that plague our civilization. Many people think fungi are inherently dangerous, that most mushrooms are either deadly, toxic, or…
Cities and Energy Gradients
Human civilization may seem so extraordinarily complicated that it can never be understood in all its minute details and complexities. And indeed it is, but some simple principles of physics allow us to make general claims about society as a…