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wilderness is a feeling—that is a place 25 Jul 2013 | 04:47 pm
guest post by Our Place ass’t teacher, Maegan Puzas! A Fear of Hope or a Hope of Fear? Have you ever taken a moment to think about the kinds of things that go through your mind before you set out on...
No easy task to get across the river 8 Jul 2013 | 05:28 am
Guest post by Evan Hutton, Our Place 2013 coordinator and teaching assistant— I’ve realized throughout my ‘river-walking’ training that even though rivers can be perceived calm, peaceful and tranquil...
A Beautiful Immersion 23 Jun 2013 | 05:10 pm
Wonderful guest post by Maegan Puzas, Our Place teaching assistant! A Beautiful Immersion If you take a moment to look around at your surroundings, what do you see? You may be sitting inside, starin...
the biotic mandala—as earth 7 Jun 2013 | 04:19 am
Green. We know the color of earth, at least the part of the earth we hanker to when we want to be close to the bios, to life. The earth has other colors, of course, that begin with the rainbow and spa...
the biotic mandala—as the net of aether 23 May 2013 | 01:42 am
The bios—also called “life”—”formed itself out of star stuff, shortly after Earth 4,600 millions years ago congealed from a remnant of supernova explosion.” Bios is netted by the material design of th...
the biotic mandala, what it is 18 May 2013 | 06:53 am
Time to imagine what a biocitizen is again, if only b/c we learned a few days ago that the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has exceeded 400 parts per million (ppm) for the first time in 55 ...
A Visit to Amherst’s Sustainability Festival 30 Apr 2013 | 06:06 pm
Post written, and pics taken, by Evan Hutton, Biocitizen intern and UMass Class of 2013, Legal Studies The Sustainability Fest is one that has all of the elements you want a culture to embrace in orde...
the biotic mandala 20 Apr 2013 | 05:06 am
Patterns—in our cells, in the sky and oceans, in the seasons and the rising and setting of the sun. They overlap & interweave and become mandalas. We live in them, or what remains of them. When the ...
new bees, (not the) same as the old bees 7 Apr 2013 | 07:19 am
There are times when the environmental news is so bad I wonder if there’s any way to stop the harm that is being done to our shared life—and I say shared life because that’s what our earth is: our b...
Get them out of the machine and into the green 28 Mar 2013 | 09:44 pm
Our Place Summercamp gets kids of the machine and into the green—
