Catch-up post
Welcome to the first week of summer here at Emerald Earth. We’ve had a much longer rainy season than usual here; we even had some cool rainy days last week....
Kerrplunk
Kerrick Lucker earned a Master of Arts in Museum Education from John F. Kennedy University in 2008. Since then he has been driven to apply his background in creating and supporting effective educational experiences to some of the world’s most pressing ecological and cultural problems. With Atelier.KathleenBrown, he has worked on projects for the Museum of the African Diaspora and the GLBT Historical Society, among others. Presently he works as an Interpretive Naturalist with the Aquarium of the Bay and contributes to community gardening and permaculture education efforts in San Francisco.
Experiential Education
We know learning has happened when we have an experience and our behavior changes as a result. Learning happens when we recognize an experience as meaningful and significant. Meaningful and significant experiences can happen in a classroom—but they happen even more powerfully outside the classroom, in the outdoors, connecting with other people, or when we are pursuing our passions.
Permaculture Design
Permaculture is the design modality of creating optimal human systems based on the patterns inherent in natural ecosystems. It is most famously a way of designing gardens so that each element supports, and is supported by, the others—the principles of permaculture design can as easily be applied to strategic planning, teaching, and community development.
Working for a future that includes us
Now for an amusing interlude
It was nine o’clock on a moonless night. The sky was still slightly aglow, and I could see Venus following the sun down in the west between two silhouetted redwoods....
Killing Thunder: Part II
Read Part I first. I had a discussion a few weeks ago with Erica about why it matters that we ritualize around killing animals for food. It doesn’t matter to...
Killing Thunder: Part I
This morning when I woke up I was a person who had never seen an animal killed for food. Tonight I am a person who has helped to kill and...
Happy Beltane
After several rainy and changeable days, yesterday dawned bright and windy. Emerald Earth fairly vibrated with intense excitement and joy. I think even the animals were feeling it. The newly...
What it’s like at Emerald Earth
This is what it’s like right now at Emerald Earth–it’s Friday afternoon, and we should be in the sunny garden turning in some soil amendments to prepare a bed for...
This is a rescue mission
(I’m appropriating the title of this post from the masturbation fantasy that was The Invisibles, by Grant Morrison.) The good news about everything that is unsustainable is that, by definition,...
As if to underscore the point…
I’ve just seen this article in The Nation about the behavior of environmental lobbyist groups, including the Sierra Club and The Nature Conservancy. I’m currently reading Confessions of an Eco-Warrior...
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