California is justly famous for its Spring wildflowers. Here in Sonoma County, the hike from Shell Beach to Red Hill is one of my favorites. It isn’t long, and the views are wonderful. In the Spring the flowers are the best I personally have seen on the coast, and they get better the higher you…

The Fund for the Study of Spontaneous Orders at the Atlas Economic Research Foundation is seeking papers exploring the theme “ORDERS AND BORDERS” for its Second Conference on Emergent Order and Society Selected papers will be presented at a conference to be held in Portsmouth, NH, November 1-4, 2008. After author revisions/responses, the papers will…

Some time ago The Pomegranate, a Pagan academic journal, printed an attack on Paganism and deep ecology by Bookchinite Peter Staudenmaier: “Fascist Ecology: The ‘Green Wing” of the Nazi party and its Historical Antecedents.” Staudenmaier’s article appeared in issue No. 15, Feb. 2001 (4-21), when it was a hard copy journal. My response was in…

I blogged earlier on the American right wing’s bizarre hatred of Rachel Carson, including their surreal claim she was guilty of “genocide” because her arguments influenced policies dramatically reducing DDT use, including its use against malaria. Even if their claims were accurate as to the effects of the DDT ban, it is difficult to charge…

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