Reading for Pleasure Wednesdays: Carbon Imprint Calculators

In the September/October SIERRA, Paul Rauber’s article on/review of carbon imprint calculators is of very great interest! I did one of these before but I do not know how good it was. It said we would need 5 earths if everyone lived like me. It seems that the Berkeley Institute of the environment, at coolclimate.berkeley.edu, … More Reading for Pleasure Wednesdays: Carbon Imprint Calculators

On Transformation

I really am almost finished transforming back. I think. To continue to transform back I would like to say that what Reeducation did was take a distorting picture of one’s moment of trauma and say: This is the real you. Admit that it is the real you. And you had to start living as that … More On Transformation

On Saving Seeds

You have to save your seeds. People are not taught this in school and it is very, very important. And it is a really beautiful day, like summer in Los Angeles, sparkling. The sky breathes soft winds at a temperature of 84 degrees, so it is cool enough to go outside. * As we know, … More On Saving Seeds

Station Break

I clearly do not know myself at all. A student whose pedagogical project I am supervising says I have a strong interest in pedagogy. I have always denied this, originally out of the fear of being designated for a pink collar job, but I see his point. This is quite interesting. Perhaps I have not … More Station Break

Full On

A. I was taught that in academia, you had to do things halfheartedly to survive. You must just walk through teaching, since you will not get credit for it; you must write a great deal, but always acceptably bland things, so as to have a form and type of production conventional enough to pass; you … More Full On

Pour-soi

I have now finished writing a series of texts which could become a manuscript. They are not yet a manuscript, and may not be suitable as an academic manuscript, but they are what I have been writing since I got back from Peru. I started this file long ago and worked on it occasionally, but … More Pour-soi