Author Archives: Dave Pollard

photo by the author “Everything had changed, but nothing seemed different” — Meg Hutchinson, True North Lately I’ve been reading back over some of the old posts in this 15+ year-old blog. Some of what I wrote still mostly makes … Continue reading →

New Yorker cover by Charles E Martin from September 11, 1971 During today’s conference call of the Municipalities in Transition group, I had the pleasure of being introduced to Tom Henfrey of the Schumacher Institute, who introduced us to the term “coercive isomorphism”. … Continue reading →

I am watching a pair of violet-green swallows trying to get to their nest, which happens to be in the powder room vent of my house. Swallows have nested there every summer I’ve been here, though it means a sudden … Continue reading →

What we think of as our ‘life’ is actually just an infinite series of fragments. Each day when ‘we’ awaken, a useless bit of software that has evolved in our brains starts up and stitches together from ‘memory’ what it believes … Continue reading →

image: from Martijn Meijerink on skitterphoto.com, cc0 A growing number of researchers and theorists studying human nature, and the nature of the universe, from a wide range of disciplines, now seem to agree that most non-human creatures do not have, and … Continue reading →

Painting by Cristobal Ortega Maila CC0 from pxhere.com Michael Pollan, famous for his books on cooking, food and nutrition (“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”), is about (May 15th) to release his latest book How to Change Your Mind: What the … Continue reading →