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Corner swamp 671, originally uploaded by Jock Gill.

What do you see in the photograph above?

I suggest we primarily “act” on what we “see”. Errol Morris posits that what we “see” is largely informed by […]

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KWB-micro-CHP, originally uploaded by Jock Gill.

Wood pellet powered Stirling engine micro-CHP is now a commercial product in Europe! This very strategic product is made by KWB of Austria, who currently refuse to sell into […]

In this weeks Green Grapevine, published weekly in the Times Argus, Rutland Herald, and Brattleboro Reformer, Daniel Hecht writes a review of James Howard Kunstler’s 2004 - 2005 book The Long Emergency.
The Long Emergency Predicts a Dire Future
James Kunstler’s The Long Emergency is something like required reading among peak oil activists, and it’s a […]

Paul Krugman’s March 14th NY Times essay “Betting the Bank“, should be a wake up call that the old American Fantasy of no limits & no consequences is not only an impossibly false proposition, for one it ignores the laws of thermodynamics, but it is also at the very heart of our imploding economy.
It strikes […]

The Grass Energy Collaborative [GEC] working paper was first shared in Dec. 2005 in Montpelier. Then it was shared at a meeting at Shelburne Farms in early January 2006 — just two years ago. Unexpectedly, President Bush mentioned “switchgrass” in this 2006 State of the Union speech. This really set up […]

Transpartisanship Defined
Transpartisanship represents an emerging field in political thought distinct from bipartisanship, which aims to negotiate between “right” and “left,” resulting in a dualistic perspective, and nonpartisanship, which tends to avoid political affiliation altogether. Rather, transpartisanship acknowledges the validity of truths across a range of political perspectives and seeks to synthesize them into an […]

A question to consider: If our leading political candidates for President refuse to challenge the culture of global, unregulated, free market corporatism, and the broken narrative used to justify it, just how much change do we think there is going to be?
Has wishful thinking deluded some voters into thinking “hope” and […]

Posted by Jock Gill
Oregon science teacher a mega-hit on YouTube
09:34 AM PST on Monday, December 17, 2007
Associated Press
INDEPENDENCE, Ore. — Often, the kind of videos that blow up on YouTube involve scantily clad girls, or stupid pet tricks. But a nine-minute, 33-second video on the perils of global warming made by Central High School science […]

Author: Jock Gill
I just watched “The War Room“, a film about the 1992 Clinton Campaign, for the first time since 1993.
Watching this film of politics from 15 years ago is an experience I recommend highly. In 1992, Bush, and esp. Mary Maitlan, one of his senior campaign staffers, worked […]

Author: Jock Gill
Clearly all cultures have what might be called their DNA. This cultural DNA appears to determine the nature of a culture and the boundaries within which it can “thrive”. Given that cultures, like organisms, live in an ever changing “context”, it is no surprise that the DNA of a culture is […]