Hey! Book recommendation...

The Myth of Progress, by ecologist Tom Wessels is a powerful, compact read. At 130 pages, it's an easy book to finish in a quiet afternoon, and it's one that will stay with you long after you've put it down. Wessels uses elegant prose to weave ecology, economics and politics in an amazing web designed to build an image of exactly how it's come to this: a world full of entire ecosystems and human populations fated to be seen as throwaways should they a) fail turn a profit, b) stand in the way of progress, or c) fall short of wallstreet expectations. Wessels questions our assumptions about global competition and capitalism through comparisons between economic systems and natural environments, in the end making the argument that our current global market focus and fixation on ever expanding economies is a house of cards destined to collapse as we ignore it's very foundation and poison our air, water and soil. If you care about the state of our planet, and feel compelled to understand the "big picture" of how human activity effects the global environment, please read this book.

P.S. as per the last post..

I'm adding a page to the Blomquist website tonight called "The Wild Side". You'll be able to go there each month to see what the topic will be for that month's walk along with a brief description of what we'll cover.

A quick reminder about tomorrow's "Walk on the Wild Side".

The topic will be "Fall". We'll discuss why leaves turn colors, why the trees and shrubs that once (earlier that year) depended upon them give them the boot, and how plants evolved to have this type of hot and cold relationship with their photosynthetic workhorses. See you there! (11:oo a.m. at the Blomquist Gatehouse)