Author Archives: Mark

It is coming up on two years since leaving Carleton, and already it seems so much longer than that. I feel old now – not as though I am aging (though losing my hair doesn’t help) – but old in … Continue reading →

Academia – for all its movement toward sustainability – remains steeped in the old model that nature can be reduced to objective phenomena and that, by including environmental harm among those phenomena and fitting the best computer model, we can … Continue reading →

It’s not too often that someone else says exactly what I would like to say better than I could say it, but my old friend Chelsey Huisman found this last week and sent it on to me. It is a … Continue reading →

Has it really been over a month since I updated this blog? It certainly doesn’t seem that long. Weeks have been filled with reading up on recent research related to photosynthesis and hydrogen production, trying to zero in on some … Continue reading →

I had two projects yesterday: cut and split the wood gathered earlier in the week and haul four loads of composted horse manure from our neighbor’s stables to our garden beds. We seem to have found plenty of uses for … Continue reading →

I just learned that I didn’t get the NSF scholarship I applied for. Ali didn’t either. My friends Jenna and Liana from Carleton both got it – I sent them congratulatory notes. Oh well, it’s not like I really need … Continue reading →

People ask what I think of the stimulus bill. I don’t really have an opinion, except that I would like to see the economic system fail to the point where intelligent people stop trying to fix it and think about … Continue reading →

I put up two hanging feeders last weekend, and after a few days the birds found them. Now I have a constant stream of visitors! I haven’t had much time to watch, so in perhaps 15 minutes total time I … Continue reading →

People here claim that it is still winter, and in all reality not much has changed in the weather. It doesn’t drop to 24 degrees like it did on occasion in January – lows above freezing are more the norm … Continue reading →

It’s been continued unseasonably dry, with two beautiful days this past weekend. I just posted more photos at http://www.luterra.com/essays/20090216.html