I want to say up front that this is not my usual thing. I write about mugs. I write about scarf weather and the light
Month: August 2026
Name’s Wright. Mister Wright if you’re clocked in. I’m writing this in the days between two anniversaries. Behind me, August 25, 1925, a hall in
Bill Mollison Brought a Clipboard The argument shows up at every table where permaculture people and aquaponics people end up sitting together, and it runs
In one week this August, three American companies had to answer the same question: what do you owe people before you end their livelihoods? Each
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What the Shipbuilders Confirmed
A Follow-Up to Ship to Shore Data An open concept paper from Bright Meadow Group In July we published Ship to Shore Data, which argued
Twenty-Five Years of Seeing It Firsthand On Tuesday, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services put out a press release announcing $35 million for rural
Observe / Design / Intervene Forward vision, reachback control, and what a production ship does for a fleet OBSERVE Correcting the frame The first AV
An Accounting A body is found early in the morning. By the middle of the afternoon there is a statement, and by evening the statement
When we wrote up Casey last January, the giant things took the byline, and fairly so — you don’t drive past the world’s largest pitchfork
A thought-experiment theology, drawn from the antlered figure on the Gundestrup Cauldron Start with the object, since the object is most of what we have.
I read something on LinkedIn this week that I haven’t been able to put down, which is not a sentence I expected to write. It
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The Feedstock Problem
Hydrothermal processing has been proven on four continents and made money almost nowhere. The reactor is not the reason. I did not set out to
In January of 1991, a half wit comedy actor stood up in a ballroom at the Grosvenor House Hotel and explained creativity to a room
New Paris, Napier Township, Bedford County, Pennsylvania Most covered bridges keep their secrets. Board the sides up to the eaves, paint the whole thing barn
Labor History: August 13, 1892 — Tracy City, Tennessee Two crews worked that coal. One of them could go home. On August 13, 1892, free
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RRP Update – Version 3
The River Refugium Project Just Got Half as Long and Twice as Useful Version 2.0 of the River Refugium Project ran to eighteen volumes and
Afloat drone production and the return of amphibious assault Observe / Design / Intervene OBSERVE The problem drones created and can solve Amphibious assault against
I lost my first debate round at sixteen, in a school gymnasium that smelled like floor wax and wet wool, on a resolution I no
The Floor We Built in 1935 August 14, 1935. Franklin Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act. Old-age benefits from the federal government. A framework for
I want to be honest with you about how this one started, because if I dress it up as research you’ll know I’m lying. I
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Lessons from Kōdo Shori
Observe → Design → Intervene I went looking at how Japan handles algal blooms and nutrient loading in its coastal waters. What I came back
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The Sea That Got Too Clean
Observe → Design → Intervene Japan has been our second-largest audience by pageviews for most of a year. Not a spike, not a single post
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The Corpus Is the Field
Earlier I published The Long Work of Getting Better, which made a gentle case that human progress runs on shared knowledge and that we may
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The Long Work of Getting Better
My grandmother saved seed. Not because she had a theory about agriculture, but because that’s what you did — you kept back the best of
1956 Chevrolet 3100 panel The truck is parked nose-out in front of the Windber post office, which is roughly where a truck like this would
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Water Under Pressure
Hydrothermal processing is the industrial half of river cleanup, and it has spent twenty years waiting for something cheap to eat. There is a technology
My father kept a small notebook in his porter’s jacket. Names, mostly. Men he’d worked the cars with who didn’t come back to the line
Cernunnos Foundation Motorcycle ride Nature Made Ridin With Robb Riding Down This Road Rock Formations and Canyons Scenic vista
The Salt River Canyon
Downshifting through 2 billion years. There’s a place on US 60 in eastern Arizona where the road stops behaving like a road. The pavement runs
I have a confession, and I’d like to get it out of the way before anybody thinks better of me. I wear my headphones in
Goodbye, Civilization — And Thanks for the Training The moon gets hit Wednesday morning. Some of us have been ready for this since 1980. At
I spent most of a Tuesday in a county courthouse over a matter so small I am embarrassed to name it: eleven feet of ground,