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PAUL E NELSON

Rifkin Meme/ Guaranteed Basic Income

It’s a Facebook meme and these are worth the paper they’re printed on, but I though this one was pretty good, so I shared it. I’d seen Jeremy Rikin give a lecture at Town Hall, discussing the sharing economy and the possibility that 3D printers will...

1992 Peter Berg Interview

I was a rookie interviewer in 1992, when I had the good fortune to be able to interview Peter Berg of the Planet Drum Foundation about the concept of bioregionalism. When I listen back to the audio, I wince, at the affectation and the inexperience I had at the time,...

Southern Cascadia Poet Jerry Martien

In September 2015 I had the chance to interview a poet and long-time bioregionalist Jerry Martien on the waterfront in Eureka, California. With Jim Dodge, he’s one of the two poets from extreme Southern Cascadia in the book Make It True: Poetry From Cascadia. I...

Bioregionalism or Endless Garbage

There needs to be a new idea or a more fleshed out idea of what a human being is in reference to sharing the biosphere with other life. – Peter Berg This is part of what essentially is Peter Berg’s parting message. It was given two months before his death...

Uncascadian

It was a long day, but one filled with vision and inspiration last Saturday (Dec 6, 2014) as I was part of a Board Retreat for CascadiaNow! I agreed to be Board President when asked by founder Brandon Letsinger and it is exciting to be part of a social movement to...