In his State of the Union address last night, President Obama made a call to out-innovate, out...
Recent Ruminations
Peopled Streets
How sitting in windows is making the planet cooler
Dances on Walls: How flying women are making the planet cooler
Last night, on our way to see some live music at a local cafe in San Francisco’s Mission...
How street music is making the planet cooler
Information Is Not Knowledge… Knowledge Is Not Wisdom… Wisdom Is Not Truth… Truth...
Taking back the streets
Sunday Streets is a great SF event where several city blocks are closed for automobiles, rotating...
The Bike Reporter
Pedal Magic on the Bosphorus (a photo essay from rainy Istanbul)
As some of you know I am attending and working at the Ecocity City World Summit in Istanbul this...
Towards Zero Waste
Soil
GMO OMG WTF are we eating?!?!
So there’s a proposition — Proposition 37 — on the ballot in California that would make the...
Soil is the Solution, or the most important environmental story...
I first published this post as part of the the Climate Change SOS Blogathon on Daily Kos, featuring...
We’re planning the future here!
File this in the category of occupying-the-land-with-things-that-were-meant-to-be-on-it-in-the...
Six extraordinary people who are giving voice to the voiceless...
The 2012 Goldman Environmental Prize recipients: photo courtesy Goldman Environmental Prize Africa:...
The Watsonville Files: Everyone is trapped in a vicious cycle of...
There are tens of thousands of children and young people in America who came to the United States...
What if God is a Mushroom? (A magical mystery fungal photo tour)
On a recent reunion trip to Schroon Lake in Northern New York, my friends and I took a day hike...
Soul
Signs of a Climate Emergency
The Great Highway, one of San Francisco’s iconic roads that runs along the city’s...
Eclipsed Moon Kicking Off Venus/Jupiter Dance
If you look to the sky this evening and the cloud cover in your part of the world is generous...
The Incredible Lightness of Being… Eclipsed
In this age of instant news and its inevitable twin, “instant olds,” I was debating with myself...
The Winter Beet: Why I’m still an optimist…
Solstice Greetings! It’s been a while since my last dip into the beet spread, so with the sun...
Ten Years a Citizen
Sunday (05/10/15) was my 10 year anniversary as an American citizen. What has it meant? What have I...
Zen Monks to CA Governor Brown: “Don’t even THINK...
I have a sticker in my office that says “Zen Buddhism: Don’t even think about it...