Almost every summer weekend, there are programs in the local parks where volunteers gather to remove invasive blackberries and plant native plants. It’s a tough fight – the invasive berries are tall and thick-caned and full of stickers. Volunteers sometime emerge with torn long-sleeved shorts and red rivulets of blood on their arms. At least …
Backing into Eden Chapter 11: Invasion and Migration Read More »
Stop by Futurismic and take a look if you get a chance. This was a particularly tough article to write because the problem is so diffuse and our actual knowledge so hard to quantify. Climate is a complex system full of chaotic elements and strange attractors, including political strangeness. But the fact that it’s difficult …
New column up at Futurismic, in which I rant a bit about climate change Read More »
From time to time, people ask me what it takes to be a futurist. Really, it’s an interest in thinking about the future and a habit of keeping my eye’s open. I think there is one other bit: the desire to make the world a better place in the future. I stay aware of what’s …
