What's happening
RECENT NEWS
Books ~
* Wild Visions. Wilderness as Image and Idea - out at last, thanks to Ben Minteer's patient tenacity and Mark Klett's network of landscape photographers.
* Pyrocene Park. Yosemite as a microcosm of an Earth moving from an ice age to a fire age. See link on sidebar to left for special coupon.
And some essays ~
* Firebugs - a fire triangle - from fire beetles to the question of fire as living. Blog.
* Aesthetics for the Pyrocene - a meditation for Aeon/Psyche.
* Cicero meets the Cretaceous - given the interlayering of lithic and living landscapes, maybe time to find a term to characterize it? How about 'third nature'? Published in Environmental History
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OTHER PROJECTS
Five Suns: a Fire History of Mexico, a project that I have long had in mind. A historical survey from the Chicxulub Crater to to the Coahuaila fires of 2011, organized into five eras, each with its signature fire. Now published.
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Scenes from public lectures (click on topic for video). (top l) With Steward Brand for Long Now SALT Talk; (top r) TED 2015; (bottom) AGU 2023 plenary
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OTHERWISE, I fuss over our urban Farm at the End of the Road, where I wrangle sheep, chickens, and citrus, and follow Voltaire's admonition to tend my garden.
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