Pando in the News (a lot)
The breaking wave of media attention surrounding Pando is, I believe, a positive sign.
/ February 28, 2016
Trans-Pacific Partnership, Again
We who seek an ecological civilization have a chance. The tide may be turning toward supporting the public interest. Perhaps DEMOCRACY has a future.
/ January 27, 2016
Martin Luther King’s Big Ideas
There is danger that King’s assassination will achieve its goals more fully than the crucifixion of Jesus attained its goals. This is because the image of King has been defanged even more successfully than that of Jesus.
/ January 19, 2016
Trade and Sovereignty
One can hardly question that national sovereignty is being surrendered to the corporations.
/ January 11, 2016
Change in Human History – Fast
We are all indigenous to this Mother Earth. We are not her failed experiment. That is not what we are. We are her immune response.
/ December 30, 2015
Christmas and Making the Hajj
The common denominator of our winter religious observances is bringing much-needed light where only heat is being generated.
/ December 24, 2015
Cancer and Mining Suck (the Joy Out of You)
Cancer and mining can suck the joy and energy right out of you.
/ November 16, 2015
A Success Story from China
Instead of modernizing, China should go directly to what we call constructive postmodernism, based on the philosophy of organism, rather than the modernist philosophy of mechanism.
/ November 11, 2015
New Poems from Ron Phipps
Selected poems.
/ November 11, 2015
What Can I Say to Farmers?
I have been told that many of you in this gathering are farmers. In your hands now lies the destiny of the world. I would like to speak directly to you.
/ October 28, 2015
Pat Patterson’s “New Wave”
A fresh wave of life rolls on our shores The grand outcry of stop halt enough
/ October 22, 2015
What and When Exxon Knew
ExxonMobil's online defense appeals for confidence in its “scientific and engineering mindset.” It’s because of mindsets like this that we need a new worldview.
/ October 19, 2015