On CircularityThere was an interesting session I was at yesterday, on circularity. Got me thinking about what it means to us.Jan 8Jan 8
ObservePermaculture — something I’ve been learning about and drawing inspiration from not just in the context of the farms — places a huge…Jan 6Jan 6
Phaps We’ll FailMaybe we don’t have it in us to own our places. Maybe it’s too deluded to think we have it in use to go beyond fight/flight and the…Sep 4, 20241Sep 4, 20241
It Was Always Like This?I’m getting more and more convinced that our species can only watch out for itself at an individual unit, while we have immense powers to…Aug 13, 20242Aug 13, 20242
JustifiableIn the last week alone, I drove to Goa (son’s convocation, 4–5 ppl in the car so hey, justifiable and “low footprint”) and then from there…Jul 22, 2024Jul 22, 2024
Maybe We Can’t — MaterialsAbhishek Jain of CEEW recently asserted in a discussion that the energy problem we faced would essentially have to be solved in materials…Jun 15, 20246Jun 15, 20246
Expect/Accept or How to live on the PlanetI just wrote about how, in the context of the farm, yield represents stress, and perhaps there’s a different way to look at both consuming…Apr 11, 2024Apr 11, 2024
Yield is StressOn the farm front, I have a fairly recent insight (that I’m still thinking about, like most things )Apr 11, 20241Apr 11, 20241
ValueI was out someplace to check out a small piece of land in the Western Ghats worth protecting (am trying to stitch together a bunch of…Mar 15, 20241Mar 15, 20241