Laws Which Guide Us Individually and Collectively Toward Quality Life for All*

Rule of Law. “It’s the Law!” Natural Law. The Law. The Constitution. Neighborhood Association Laws and Regulations. Housing Codes. Motor Vehicle Law. City ordinances. Food and Drug Laws. Pesticide Law. Seed Law. Conservation District Regulations. Animal Welfare Law. Affirmative Action. Reparations. U.N. Declaration of Human Rights. The U.N. Agenda 21 Plan. (Sometimes my head spins […]

Beauty, Energetics, and Limits on Quality and Quantity of Beauty

“’Beauty is truth, truth beauty,’—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.” Keats But what kind of beauty? And how much of it? Moreover, what is the energy/emergy involved, and what effect does it have on symbioses/“nature”/creation? The clear-cutting of forest can result in beautiful open meadows. The contours of […]

Cottonseed Hulls, Solidarity, and Government Regulation

I can’t move! I cannot move at all! I can’t move!! “Gene!” “Gene!!!” “Oh my God, I am heartedly sorry …” And then shortly after I had barely begun my act of contrition, it was total mental darkness and total silence! I went blank. …………………………………………………………………….. I’d completed all my responsibilities at the little feed lot […]

Fond Memories of Alton Martin of Stockdale and Devine, Texas (1916-2005), triggered by some messy winter days here in Seguin

It was a cold, wet windy winter Sunday in the Devine area of south-central Texas. “Come on outside with me Paul Bain! We’re going to take some firewood into town.” Under Dad’s direction, I chopped some oak wood alongside him, loaded it into the green 6-cylinder bobtail truck which was normally his ride to work […]

Some Good Works (URLs for them) … and Some Recurring Thoughts from pbm

https://medium.com/presencing-institute-blog/axial-shift-the-decline-of-trump-the-rise-of-the-greens-and-the-new-coordinates-of-societal-b0bde2613a9e?fbc https://medium.com/thebeammagazine/why-a-transition-to-clean-energy-alone-is-not-enough-for-a-sustainable-future-35eee2ac9901 https://www.aau.at/en/social-ecology/research/social-metabolism/ …………………………………………………………………………………… I’m not overly bright, but what I’ve learned over my 72 years is fairly simple for most anyone to figure out, and especially the energetic and intelligent young ones in today’s world.  (Of course it doesn’t mean that we have the morals & ethics, and intestinal fortitude-individually and collectively–to do so […]