Ecofeminist Greta Gaard’s remarkable essay “Explosion,” which I quoted a few posts ago, is now available in free full text online. I’m so happy to be able to share it!
Two paragraphs into my first reading of that essay, I bolted out of my chair and bounded around the house exclaiming, “This is so good! I [...]
Wow, going unplugged for a few days was really relaxing. You ought to try it sometime.
Before returning to our regularly scheduled programming, let me tell you some things I experienced in Minneapolis. I did two events for activists while there, a workshop on stress and grief and a reading of Aftershock focused on planning for [...]
“Please excuse me,” I said as I got into bed, my legs displacing dogs and cats as I wrestled myself under the covers, “I can’t help having such a gangly ape body.”
Madeline
The little red dog called Madeline wriggled under the covers too, nestling her body into the curves of mine before falling back asleep. [...]
There I was, pontificating on feminism and animal liberation at NYU, when after an hour of literally feverish (I had a bad cold) lecturing, I felt the need to rush from the room and splash cold water on my face. So I brought my talk abruptly to a close, suggesting that we break for refreshments [...]
We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to report that our well may be failing. Well failures in our area have been coming closer and closer to the sanctuary and, from the crazy way our pump was acting Friday and the very low pressure today, it looks like our well is about to be the [...]
The Max Planck Institute has figured out how wild wheat seeds dig themselves into the ground.
Image: Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces
Here’s how they summarize the process:
The awns of the wild wheat are both steering mechanism and engine at the same time. They guide a ripe grain to the earth with the pointed end [...]
I’ve been doing all of my non-book writing today on somebody else’s blog. Check out the ongoing discussion on Confessions of a (former) breeder at Invisible Voices. The comments have veered into the intersection of speciesism and sexism.
Speaking of animal breeding, the NYT has published this editorial on the latest news about the Middle Eastern [...]
