Kata or streiphen? Does the ecological emergency, and the catastrophes that it imagines, portend kata or streiphen—collapse or transformation, an end or a radically new beginning? The answers to these questions depend in part on how we imagine the emergency, how we tell the story, and to whom. Fragmentation is like shattered ice: conditions dictate […]
Myth One: Don’t drink the water if you’re in The Canaries! Not drinking tap water in The Canaries causes an enormous amount of plastic pollution. Quite apart from the plastic, most is shipped here from Spain, which means it has an enormous carbon footprint. It’s also much more expensive than drinking tap water. It may […]
New year is rather a random event from my perspective, although as a Scot, one might expect that I would be rather wedded to the idea of song and celebration. I do love a good poem. And a song (I heard the sea shanty everyone’s been raving about for the first time last night here […]