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Bamboo for ecology: Planting for a greener planet
Bamboo is widely touted as a superior resource for its versatility and renewability. And rightly so. Unlike trees that can take decades to mature, bamboo can be suitable for harvest within just four or five years. And from there it can become a building material, a...
Do not panic. You’re still a Sagittarius.
"I'm telling you, THIS is why astrology is a bunch of BS! You're telling me that all of a sudden, I'm just magically a different sign, all because some yahoo from the mid-west finally realizes that the earth has shifted? I don't buy...." Man, he wouldn't stop. My...
Gandhi on the Economy of Cotton
There's a lot of talk these days about wealth distribution and Social Justice Warriors. For many, these phrases are charged with deep and divisive political connotations. I guess you'd know which side I'm on if I told you I wrote my University application essay on...
Bamboo Wisdom: Transcendence and the Collective Self
When we grapple to understand life's most puzzling mysteries, we can often look to nature to find the basic patterns that illustrate the most complex aspects of human behavior and psychological development. As we've demonstrated elsewhere in this blog, bamboo provides...
The Tao Abides: Taoism and the Big Lebowski
Upon its release in 1998, The Big Lebowski became something of an instant cult classic. More than just a carnival of irony, absurdity and deadpan one-liners, the timeless tale of the Dude also conveys a bounty of timeless—albeit subdued—wisdom. And in some respects,...
Benefits of Bamboo: The nearly miraculous grass
Sustainable, versatile, sturdy and flexible, the benefits of bamboo just go on and on. For thousands of years, people have been using bamboo as a building material and a source of sustenance. To this day, bamboo houses are a common site across the rural parts of China...