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 phlog-2023-06-09.txt

 Book review:
 
   Bitter Harvest: An Inquiry into the War between Economy and Eart
 
     by Lisi Krall - (c) 2022 SUNY Press ; 196 pages [0]
 
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 phlog-2022-12-24.txt

 Year's End Roundup -- 2022 edition
 
 Has turned out to be a rather light posting year for me.  While
 I'm still very much engaged in learning about our predicament I
 haven't felt as compelled to write about it as it kind of doesn't
 matter anymore and arguably many folks are probably better off
 staying ignorant. Also
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 phlog-2022-10-03.txt

 Book review:
     Ultrasocial: The Evolution of Human Nature and the Quest for
     a Sustainable Future [0] by John Gowdy, Ph.D. (c) 2021,
     Cambridge Univ. Press
 
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 phlog-2022-01-11.txt

 Narrative Fracture in the Post-Exuberance Age
 
 Happy 2022?  We'll have to wait and see.
 
 Finished up William Catton Jr's 'Overshoot' but decided to move on
 to his followup book, 'Bottleneck', written nearly 30 years later,
 before
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 phlog-2021-12-12.txt

 P.L.A.N. for Collapse
 
 Still working my way through William Catton's 1982 book
 'Overshoot'[0].  Got distracted when I picked up "Peruvian
 Plunge"[1], Sam Mitchell's self-published travel memoir/gringo
 spirit quest from his time in Peru.  Sam Mitchell is better known
 as Hambone Littletail, the cantankerous
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 phlog-2021-10-30.txt

 Seems it has been a while since the last post.  Been taking a brea
 from the doom, opting for more enjoyable distractions like taking
 advantage of an unusually warm Fall and an abundance of apples on
 our trees this year.  We must have 40+ pounds of apple sauce in
 the freezer now and there are still more apples to process..
 
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 phlog-2021-07-22.txt

 It's another smokey hot Summer on the front range.  Apparently mos
 of the smoke is from the west coast; so far Colorado seems to be
 escaping a repeat of last year's epic wildfires.  We've even gotte
 a decent amount of rain, enough to keep the wildflowers going and
 the grasses green.
 
 Have finally gotten starting reading William Catton's seminal 1980
 book
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 phlog-2021-06-20.txt

 Book review:
     Bright Green Lies: How the Environmental Movement Lost Its Way
     and What We Can Do About It - (c) 2021 [0]
       by Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith, & Max Wilbert
 
     (also review of companion film by Julia Barnes.)
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 phlog-2021-04-11.txt

 Happy Spring!  It really felt like a long Winter and the bright
 green of the emerging foliage is a welcome sight.
 
 Books:  I'm currently reading 'Bright Green Lies', just out last
 month.  Derrick Jensen is the primary author but with contribution
 from
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 phlog-2021-03-10.txt

 film reviews:  'Hot Money' and 'Kiss the Ground'
 
 That's right -- it's a two-fer!   Both are recent documentary film
 and although they occasionally cross topical paths they are
 somewhat partisan affairs and framed for their target audiences.
 Both are worth watching.
 
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