Category: Director’s Notes

Biocitizen at Brushworks Open House on Sat. and Sun.
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Biocitizen at Brushworks Open House on Sat. and Sun.

I’ll be manning the table from 12-3 at Studio 355 on Sat. & Sun. Please drop by! I’d love to tell you about what Biocitizen offers, and answer any questions you have. “The universe is wider than our views of it.”

Animism in the news today: flipside
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Animism in the news today: flipside

Yesterday I commented on Tom Ridge’s definition of land in CA, AZ and PA as “sacred.” Today I bring up a related issue: the comprehensive toxification of land and water in the US. The EPA released a report yesterday that says that it “found mercury — a pollutant primarily released from coal-fired power plants — [...]

Animism in the news today
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Animism in the news today

After posting our new class offering, “Animism,” I was browsing the Washington Post and what did I find? Former Department of Homeland Security Security Tom Ridge and current Governor of Pennsylvania Edward Rendell co-wrote an op-ed detailing the establishment of a new national park in Somerset, Pa. where Flight 93 crashed on 911. When they [...]

Rick Tracy of Intervale Farm will present an introduction to permaculture 11/9
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Rick Tracy of Intervale Farm will present an introduction to permaculture 11/9

Introduction to Permaculture Grown in Westhampton will host Rick Tracy of Intervale Farm, who will present an introduction to the philosophy and practice of permaculture. Permaculture is an interesting approach to agriculture that values local self-reliance, and strives to harmonize farming with native ecological processes. Rick is a third generation farmer at Intervale, and president [...]

Transcendentalism in the Nonotuck Bioregion #3
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Transcendentalism in the Nonotuck Bioregion #3

How did I get waylaid by the beauty of these weeks? I blame those many days when late afternoon sun flared up the leaves, a match lit in every one, making the trees look like Chinese lanterns, the rising Berkshire hills like cities of paper with all the lights on, luminescent walls colored in crayon [...]

Transcendentalism in the Nonotuck Bioregion #2: Flip and Cider!!
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Transcendentalism in the Nonotuck Bioregion #2: Flip and Cider!!

Reading about the 3 Sylvesters Judd in Life and character of the Rev. Sylvester Judd. Grandfather Sylvester established a large farm estate in Southampton, opened general stores in Norwich and Westhampton, and was a Calvinist reverend. “He was one of the members of the first Convention for framing a Constitution for Massachusetts in 1779″: impressive! [...]

Transcendentalism in the Nonotuck Bioregion
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Transcendentalism in the Nonotuck Bioregion

I’m immersed in a research project: ferreting out the religious history of Nonotuck, especially the part that concerns the spiritual freedom the early inhabitants exercised when they imagined and worshiped God. That’s why I’m thinking about Transcendentalism. Transcendentalism is a particularly Massachusetts-ian theology for three reasons. First, the colonists who invaded Massachusetts were serious about [...]

why
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why

Philosophy is where we go to understand what a good life is. It literally means love of wisdom (philo & sophia). Wisdom is the moral intelligence that lets us make wise or unwise decisions on the playing field of raw survival. It helps us to survive; stockbrokers, Ephesians have their wisdoms, and all to the [...]

Director's Notes
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Director’s Notes

Current thoughts about Biocitizen’s philosophy, mission, and activities.

Welcome to Biocitizen
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Welcome to Biocitizen

This is our classroom–the Nonotuck bioregion.

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