Category Archives: Nature

The last dead Christmas Pagan Tree of the season, at the end of March?

on April 2, 2025 in Nature

Following up my post about Hundreds of trashed dead Christmas pagan trees, 2025 from late February, I saw what I figure will be the last one thrown out for the season at the end of March. That’s how many trees we kill for a holiday tradition based in a different time and place, that we’re still throwing them away, like octopuses in the garbage, months after the holiday. Different either[…] Keep reading →

Octopuses are so smart we cook them and then throw them away without even eating them.

on April 1, 2025 in Nature, Visualization

After picking up litter today, I had to look up octopus intelligence. The first link on my search was titled Octopuses may be so terrifyingly smart because they share humans’ genes for intelligence. Why did I have to look up their intelligence? Because of how disgusted I felt, but didn’t feel I felt disgusted enough. Below are three increasingly horrifying pictures of a garbage can in the northwest corner of[…] Keep reading →

“These are the times that try men’s souls”

on March 19, 2025 in Freedom, Leadership, Nature

I confess I haven’t read Thomas Paine’s The American Crisis, but I’m working so much on opposing coercion and tyranny, I keep coming across him. I’m trying to learn more about the conditions that led to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Learning history is one thing. Getting inside the hearts and minds of the people acting is another. What values were they acting on or not? If you[…] Keep reading →

Have you noticed that sanitation departments have become socialist, imperialist, and flagrant violators of the US Constitution’s original intent?

on March 11, 2025 in Freedom, Nature

Once, all garbage biodegraded. All garbage would turn into food for something within time scales relevant to human lives. Not today. Plastic can take centuries to degrade, during which time they kill wildlife and poison us. Plenty of residue from our culture poisons more, like pesticides and home cleaning products. Our hunter-gatherer ancestors could just drop the parts of the fruit, vegetable, or animal they didn’t want to eat on[…] Keep reading →

“In the next 30 years, we’ll make four times more plastic waste than we ever have”

on March 7, 2025 in Awareness, Nature, SIDCHAs

I hope I don’t start a habit of posting references to articles, but it’s hard not to share ones that say “In the next 30 years, we’ll make four times more plastic waste than we ever have.” That headline came from science.org, which referred to a journal article, Production, use, and fate of all plastics ever made, from Science Advances. We’re drowning in plastic. It doesn’t break down on human[…] Keep reading →

Josh and Evelyn Go Live! … see our first live stream of a series on living joyfully sustainably

on February 28, 2025 in Addiction, Freedom, HandsOnPracticalExperience, Nature

Living more sustainably isn’t hard. Our human ancestors did it for 250,000 years. Our non-human ancestors did it for billions. Most life forms do, maybe all except we modern humans. Living more sustainably in a culture that for whatever lip service it falsely pays to sustainability rewards the opposite is hard. Then the problem is people—that is, social and emotional, not technical. After all, it costs less, requires less time,[…] Keep reading →

What do you think: will the world be more healthy, safe, and secure next year? Next decade? Next century?

on February 26, 2025 in Addiction, Nature

I’m curious if anyone wants to share their intuition, how they are living their lives, not necessarily people who research the state of the earth, but what you think for yourself and your children, if any: Do you think tomorrow—that is, the future in general—will be more or less healthy, safe, and secure than today? I haven’t researched the question, but I’d bet for all of human existence, nearly all[…] Keep reading →

The one thing in the universe that turns chaos into value and what it means for humanity

on February 25, 2025 in Nature

Yesterday in My favorite solar panel I wrote about the problems with the solar panels we produce. Since they require nonrenewable resources to make and don’t biodegrade, we lower earth’s ability to sustain life in making them and disposing of them when they stop working. As far as I know, that problem happens for all ways we create energy besides eating plants and fungi and using wood. We think we[…] Keep reading →

My favorite solar panel

on February 24, 2025 in HandsOnPracticalExperience, Nature

Recall that all the electric power I use directly comes from my portable solar panels powering a battery. Indirectly I cause plenty more to be used, from lights in other buildings to the server farms bringing you this writing, to the manufacturing processes that build things I use. The more I learn about solar power, the more I learn of the environmental devastation in creating solar panels and batteries and[…] Keep reading →

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