Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Resistance
I’m on vacation. I’m not on a big boat on a warm Caribbean ocean or careening headlong up and down the world’s largest wooden roller coaster or drinking wine in the Napa Valley. (What is wrong with me!??) I’m on a nearly mandatory “stay-cation” all by myself (not even my dog is home today) which while on…
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Long, Quiet Hiatus
I haven’t been writing. I also haven’t been teaching. I’m no longer in the same job. My garden is a shambles and I lost two of my seven bee hives. But I knew it was going to be summer of loss, I gave up on it before it even started. There was a garden, but…
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Why Keep a Blog?
That’s what I googled this morning. Over the years I’ve started and abandoned so many blogs I can’t keep track – except the one with my name on it! And very often I wonder what in the world am I going to write about under my own name! What was I thinking buying this domain…
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Natural Design
Before diving headlong into the second principle of Permaculture, I realized that I need to back up and keep exploring this notion of applying a biological design system to something that is non-biological – namely the World Wide Web. While it is indeed true that the web is not carbon-based, it is (IMHO) inherently human…
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Permaculture Principles
There are 12 principles in permaculture design and they are easily googled. Full books, long books have been written on these principles! But I’m going to list them here anyway, just by way of introduction to the concept with the caveat that I will dive into all 12 of them separately. Dun da da daaaaah:…
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Ethical Web Design
Practitioners trace the origins of permaculture design to an Australian forest service worker in the 1970s. His name is Bill Mollison and together with his graduate student David Holmgren, they offered us all a radical shift in thinking about agriculture by observing and re-creating what happens in a forest. You probably have never heard of permaculture,…
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