Tag: Ecological

The Heart Sutra, known alternatively as the Heart of Transcendental Wisdom, is one of the most profound and widely-studied scriptures of Mahāyāna Buddhism. At its core is the teaching of śūnyatā, a Sanskrit word which roughly translates to ‘emptiness’ in English. No one thin...

An assumption is often made that India’s open defecation problem was rooted in a lack of hygiene that sprang from a general backwardness emanating from Hindu texts. Nothing can be more preposterous than this. Indians inferred the linkage between personal hygiene and health thousands of year...

Usually at 6:07, I am tying on a pair of Kevlar boots in a morning meeting room while greeting forestry crew members at our tree nursery. Today, however, is Saturn Day, a beautiful balmy Minnesotan Saturday. An inherited bicycle is waiting for me to pedal to Ford Parkway once I write out this intro....

Last year, my friend Venus Upadhyay of The Epoch Times, a native of Jammu in India made me aware of what was happening at the sacred Mansar Lake in the Samba District of Jammu. It was a shocking story of one of the largest freshwater lakes in the Shivalik Mountains. The Mansar-Surinsar Lakes are Ram...

Much of my writing focuses on “reconstructing” elements of modern society. For instance, I believe that instead of a welfare state, we should cultivate a so-called listening society — and what Marx and Engels critiqued as “the German ideology” (mainstream, mod...

What kind of biomes can you encounter in Florida? One of them is rainforest, and you can experience it at Devil’s Millhopper (Florida State Parks 2024). At the bottom of the boardwalk lies a crystal blue sinkhole, formed from eroded limestone. Here, you can hike by small waterfalls tricklin...

Last year, my friend Venus Upadhyay of The Epoch Times, a native of Jammu in India made me aware of what was happening at the sacred Mansar Lake in the Samba District of Jammu. It was a shocking story of one of the largest freshwater lakes in the Shivalik Mountains. The Mansar-Surinsar Lakes are Ram...

The vines of a Himalayan blackberry bush, my least favorite rubus, live for two or three years and can grow to be as thick as my thumb. When they die back, new ones grow in their place, but the old ones remain — dead, dry and brown, but entangled and still sharp. Over time a veritabl...

This article is not an advocacy for the degrowth movement but rather an exploration of its core ideas and principles. It is also the first in a series of articles where I will delve into various concepts that are of particular interest to me. As we continue to grapple with the challenges of sustaina...

Ecology is the study of organisms, the environment, and how the organisms interact with each other and their environment. To find out the insights of an environment/ study area, Valid Data analysis of this site is so important. There are so many analytic techniques for analysis of ecological data su...

I’m the creator of Regenerative Decision-making. Regenerative Decision-making is a tool — in the form of a decision-making process — for reversing the planet’s cascading ecological crises and allowing the planet to heal itself. When I talk about the planet’s ecolo...

The rise of cryptocurrencies has revolutionized the financial world, but it has also raised significant concerns about their environmental impact. This article aims to enlighten beginners and those concerned about ecology on the ecological implications of cryptocurrencies, especially focusing on the...