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[These stories will follow an illustration dealing with biodiversity, food webs, and connectiveness in the little book on applied ecology, Games We Play.] During a political dinner one evening I sat across from an older couple who were discussing in some scientific detail the life cycles and movement patterns of the hackberry feeder, the American […]

Games We Play: More Than 200,000 Years of Living Truthfully* & of Searching for Truth** (*200,000-15,000 BCE **5,000-Present).  This is a “final draft” of several of the ca. 50 images on which Laura Salazar and my wife Elizabeth Martin are working.  Click once on the image and it will enlarge, or twice for it enlarging […]

A draft of a personal story for Games We Play which will be a sidebar for an illustration titled “Why? Eaarth/the Anthropocene. The mess we have made and are in.”: It Was Far from Being Perfect. But What Happened to My Wonderful Home Just East of Devine, Texas?? # The Warm & Fuzzy Feel* and […]

A draft of an “Epilogue” to the little heavily illustrated book on applied ecology: Up in the upper right-hand corner of the page, the little bird will ask: “Why? don’t you humans practice what you preach? … the Golden Rule … PEACE … Love … Humility.”   Epilogue:  Major Contributors to This Book … and […]

Revision for the Introduction to Games We Play, a little heavily-illustrated book on applied ecology for kids from 12 to 120 years of age: The basics of this little book are: 1.Through more than fifty illustrations herein we hope to elicit more movement toward communicating, researching, and critically thinking about living collectively as true lovers […]

Brief explanation of the title of our little book on applied ecology, or Games We Play: More Than 200,000 Years of Living Truthfully & of Searching for Truth: After the title and necessary publisher information we will have a page with the following: “For more than 200,000 years we lived Truths of living locally and […]

Little Book on Applied Ecology: Draft of a “Glossary”: The little bird we have on most pages will say on the first page of the glossary: “This might be the most important section of this ‘Little Book’!  Por favor, study it!” ********************************************************************* Glossary (of terms as used in this “Little Book”): ………………………………………………………………. Agroecology (hopefully Appropriately […]

Social Ecology: Society-Nature Relations Across Time and Space https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319333243 (I’m beginning to read this wonderful book of Helmut et al.!:     To begin to attain some semblance of holistic and sustainable local & global community health, we must recognize there are limits to the natural resource base here on Earth and to the amount […]

Little Book on Applied Ecology: Appendix II. Some Possible Readings for More Depth in “Positively Ethical Applied Community Ecology/PEACE”: *Altieri, Miguel.  1989.  Agroecology: The Science of Sustainable Agriculture.  A more sustainable food system which is much more in concert with Nature and ethical science than industrial agriculture.  http://globalalternatives.org/taxonomy/term/12 Armstrong, Karen.  1993.  A History of God.  […]