Refinement
John WasikA newsletter about metropolitan ecology, climate action and pressing thoughts on philosophy, nature and culture.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 168 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 12 days ago |
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Long, Hot Summer
“In order to change an existing paradigm, you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete.”
-Buckminster Fuller
“Do you have batteries?” my friend asked, referring to wheth...
How Tom Stoppard Still Speaks to Us About Genocide and Its Permanent, Indelible Shadow
In New Orleans, I am sweating profusely in the 95-degree heat, listening to a jazz combo and sipping pensively on my water bottle. At the foot of the Andrew Jackson statue in front of the St. Louis Cathedral, I am thinking about genocide an...
Robin Wall Kimmerer is the Future and Past of Ecology: Traditional Ecological Knowledge is Power and Non-Human Living Entities Should Have Legal Rights
On the grounds on what was once the world’s largest refractor telescope on lands once inhabited by the Potawatomi people, Robin Wall Kimmerer was talking about living things having legal rights.
Dr. Kimmerer, an ecologist, college professo...
Can You Find Solitude on a Farm? How Wendell Berry Speaks to Us
And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of one inch, very arduous and humbling and joyful, by which we arrive at the ground at our own feet, and learn to be at...
How Local Farming Can Revive America
The farm I expected to find was in a warehouse on a frontage road next to a parking lot with a barbed wire fence.
The farm I expected to find was in a warehouse on a frontage road next to a parking lot with a barbed wire fence. Something d...
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I'm an award-winning journalist, author (19 books), speaker, musician and public official. I've contributed to The New York Times, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Reuters and Next Avenue/PBS.
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