Eric grew up in the Midwest United States, and now lives in Vermont’s Champlain Valley. A childhood spent fishing and wandering the field and forest remnants near his suburban home inspired him to study ecology, environmental science, and systems thinking throughout his college years, and coaxed him to ask deeper questions about how the human enterprise engages with the landscapes it inhabits. His formal education, along with his well-developed senses of curiosity and wonder, informs his trans-disciplinary understanding of how the world works and how things came to be the way they are. These understandings are still very much evolving.
Book Review of Making All the World America
Steven T. Newcomb reviews Timothy Bowers Vasko’s Making All the World America: Native Information and the Doctrine of Discovery (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2026).
EARTHKIN WILD
At Earthkin Wilderness School we hold that a deep relationship with nature, community, and self is essential to discovering one’s unique gifts so that cultural transformation rooted in earth-based ways can take place. We offer ancestral skills training, immersive experiences in the wild, deep nature connection programs, and primal movement practices for those looking for land-based learning and reconnection in the coast mountains of BC.
Eric Blue's Digital Home – Technologist, entrepreneur and aspiring alpha geek with a passion for the quantified self, health and fitness.
Technologist, entrepreneur and aspiring alpha geek with a passion for the quantified self, health and fitness.
Folding Ideas
My Thoughts on the Bun Rust Rewrite - Andrew Kelley
When Jarred joined the Zig community about 5 years ago, I described him as someone who had strong "beginner energy". That is, he moved fast and tried a lot of different stuff, jumping head first into problems that he was not yet equipped to solve, leading to mediocre outcomes in terms of engineering, but learning a whole heck of a lot in the process. I see it as quite a healthy attitude, particularly for young people and students. This is the best way to level up and learn new things.
Ecocivilization: making a world that works for all
""One of the greatest thinkers of our age" (The Guardian) presents a new way of living-one modeled on nature's design instead of capitalism's-for fans of Guns, Germs, and Steel and Doughnut Economics It has often been said that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine the end of capitalism-and yet that is what the historical moment urgently calls for. Climate change has reached an emergency state, inequality continues to grow, and, for many, the future has never seemed more bleak. Incremental policy improvements are no longer enough-we need a deep transformation of our current civilization to continue to survive. In Ecocivilization, leading thinker Jeremy Lent reimagines the basis of our civilization, and argues for a new global system of living, one based on life-affirming principles modeled after nature's own design. What enfolds is a robust framework incorporating Lent's own expertise, and the lived experiences of those on the ground already putting ecological civilization's core tenants into practice-justice, mutuality, diversity, and symbiosis. From the global economy to universal housing and income, from infrastructure to agriculture, every major aspect of our society could be redesigned to work together as a coherent whole, setting the conditions for all people to flourish. Ecocivilization shows how this future on a regenerated Earth is not only desirable, but entirely feasible"--
The Narwhal (@thenarwhal.ca)
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Götz Bachmann’s Ethnographic Research on Dynamicland — Christoph Locher · Interaction Designer
The “Dynamic Medium Group” led by Bret Victor which is developing “Dynamicland” is much admired and closely watched in the interaction design community. Yet the information about their work is closely-guarded and usually only available in a highly moderated form. The work of ethnographer Götz Bachmann, who spent much time with the group to observe them, offers a new perspective and deep insight into the group’s ideas and practices.
REVIEW: Aztecs, by Inga Clendinnen
Aztecs: An Interpretation, Inga Clendinnen (Cambridge University Press, 1991).
Wendell Berry spent his life farming and writing – his legacy is an ethic of care for the natural world
Every reader, farmers and non-farmers alike, can learn from his broader ethics of care, attention and negotiation with the natural world.
Running On Emptiness
John Zerzan Running On Emptiness The Pathology of Civilization 2002
Community-driven informal adult environmental learning: Using theory as a lens to identify steps toward concientización
This article examines community-driven adult environmental learning in a volunteer watershed stewards program. We look for evidence of elements that portray steps toward “concientización”—the proce...
annotations: À la mémoire de Richard Easterlin, 1926-2024
Blog de sciences économiques et sociales de Martin Anota. Traductions, revues de presse.
I was born and raised in South Jersey. As a kid, I was passionately interested in music, science and nature. Within a year of entering college, I discovered neuroscience and quickly became enamored by the prospect of understanding human cognition in the context of experiment and data-driven analysis.
Education must make History Again - [ Perspectiva ]
Zachary Stein on John Amos Comenius forgotten genius and why it matters for our times
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