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Bridgeport CT, the Raybestos Automobile Brake Company & Good Places for Home Depots

By Kurt Heidinger on Dec 13, 2012 in biome, citizenship, consumerism, Director's Notes, ecology, economy, endosymbiosis, sustainability, technological determinism, time

Bridgeport, CT is a lesson still being learned. It has an incredible waterfront, as incredible as any on the Fairfield County Gold Coast, but is polluted—heavily. I grew up a few towns away from it, and back then nobody went there to shop or have fun. I remember throwing up on the backseat of mom’s [...]

Desalination Plants—Flashing Sign of Unsustainable Development

By Kurt Heidinger on Nov 30, 2012 in citizenship, consumerism, Director's Notes, ecology, evolution, imagination, sustainability, technological determinism

They’re part of a really dumb future the masters of the universe have planned out for us. Pure BS: **“San Diego has reached a major milestone in its long-term plan to develop drought-proof, local sources of water to sustain our economy and quality of life,” Carlos Riva, the company’s chief executive, said in a statement.**

How to Adapt to Survive Global Warming—Think Outside

By Kurt Heidinger on Nov 29, 2012 in citizenship, consumerism, Director's Notes, ecology, economy, energy sources, evolution, imagination, sustainability, technological determinism, time

Of course you noticed when Obama and Romney avoided the subject of global warming during their debates. Their behavior, and the lack of Big Media questioning on this subject, was so telling, wasn’t it? We cannot expect those who run for political office on a platform of “saving the economy” to care about global warming, [...]

How Sandy might have positively altered the trajectory of Human Evolution

By Kurt Heidinger on Nov 08, 2012 in citizenship, consumerism, deep biotic immersion, Director's Notes, ecology, economy, endosymbiosis, evolution, imagination, political, sustainability, technological determinism, time

(This post is part of a continuing discussion with, & is dedicated to, Ricardo Rozzi, Francisca Massardo, Chris Anderson, Kelli Moses and Eugene Hargrove, who I worked w/to create Tracing Darwin’s Path in Cape Horn, Chile.) Defamiliarization is a word that describes the act of taking something familiar and making it unfamiliar. Warhol’s soup can [...]

the Lincoln tree @ Sequoia National Park

Nature, Natural Law and Our National Religion of “Nature’s God,” conclusion

By Kurt Heidinger on Oct 19, 2012 in citizenship, consumerism, Director's Notes, ecology, ecology, economy, endosymbiosis, energy sources, evolution, imagination, Jefferson, political, religion, sustainability, time

In part 1 and part 2 we considered how Jefferson grounded the Declaration of Independence upon the natural law that we are all equal (because no human can actually own the earth); and how it was left to Lincoln to enforce that law via the Civil War.* I introduced you with the fact that Lincoln, [...]

Nature, Natural Law and Our National Religion of “Nature’s God” part 2

By Kurt Heidinger on Oct 11, 2012 in aesthetics, beauty, citizenship, consumerism, Director's Notes, ecology, economy, endosymbiosis, evolution, imagination, Jefferson, political, religion, time

At the end of my last blog, I promised to tell you the story of how Abraham Lincoln enforced natural law through the just use of lethal force during the Civil War, which was a war between “liberals” who defended the Founder’s definitions of nature, natural law and the national religion of the USA, and [...]

The Homeless Men Living By the Side of the River

By Kurt Heidinger on Oct 01, 2012 in biome, citizenship, consumerism, Director's Notes, economy, imagination, sustainability, technological determinism, time

I haven’t blogged in quite a while, largely because I have been mulling over an experience I had in the field at the beginning of the summer with a group of high schoolers. Now it’s Fall, and I have a lot to write about; but I can’t post anything until I tell you this story, [...]

big holes in the fence btwn tamed and wild

why our survival depends on wild thinking

By Kurt Heidinger on May 23, 2012 in citizenship, consumerism, deep biotic immersion, Director's Notes, ecology, economy, endosymbiosis, energy sources, evolution, imagination, sustainability, technological determinism, time

In my last post I wrote: Language is wonderful because, by inventing and using it, we create worlds. Its drawback is that these worlds do not exist, in the same way water and rocks and you and I exist. There is an actual difference, an epistemological abyss, between our “world” and the “earth.” I was [...]

the mental equivalent of wilderness: wild words (& why we should speak them)

By Kurt Heidinger on Apr 05, 2012 in citizenship, consumerism, deep biotic immersion, Director's Notes, ecology, economy, endosymbiosis, evolution, imagination, sustainability, technological determinism, time

Language is wonderful because, by inventing and using it, we create worlds. Its drawback is that these worlds do not exist, in the same way water and rocks and you and I exist. There is an actual difference, an epistemological abyss, between our “world” and the “earth.” (Many examples could be listed, but: Thoreau’s Walking [...]

Clinton's "Third Way"—NAFTA & repeal of Glass-Steagall—created the economy of the 1%

Bill Clinton’s latest bad idea: Goldman Sachs trading “carbon credits” on Wall St.

By Kurt Heidinger on Mar 29, 2012 in citizenship, consumerism, Director's Notes, ecocide, ecology, economy, endosymbiosis, energy sources, evolution, sustainability, technological determinism, time, Uncategorized

When he was president, Bill Clinton lobbied for, and signed into law, NAFTA and the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act. Both acts were advertised as being liberal and progressive—NAFTA because by removing tariffs and promoting “free trade” it would raise everybody’s standard of living; and, getting rid of Glass-Steagall would increase everyone’s freedom and prosperity [...]

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