We aren’t prepared for anything

Dave Pollard offers a long reflection on what we’ve learned from the year-ago tsunami, the more recent hurricanes, and other dismaying events of modern life.Things are the way they are for a reason. We aren’t prepared because we don’t want to know...

‘Linguistic detoxification’

Barry Commoner coined the phrase ‘linguistic detoxification’ decades ago, to describe that bureaucratic propensity to declare messes cleaned up, rather than actually clean them up. I used it in Natural Logic’s  autumn newsletter, posted a couple...

Position at Natural Logic

We’ve re-opened the Executive Assistant / Business Development Associate position at Natural Logic. (The person we recently hired — who made a big difference in a short time — has had to move out of town for family reasons.) It’s a demanding...

Fading Relevance of the Feds

Exciting post from WorldChanging.com: In a ‘Brief Communication’ in the November 17 edition of Nature, Brendan Fisher and Robert Costanza from the University of Vermont show that, in the United States, up to a third of the US population lives in areas that...