The Superforest Book Club

Speaking of books and Kinship with all life...


This novel is essentially a running dialogue between a (yes, I'm saying this correctly) telepathic gorilla, and an Average Joe Schmoe. If you can get past that odd premise (and it took me a minute to do so), you'll find yourself thrust into an engaging, challenging discourse on the evolution and mythology of mankind and the resultant course we've set for ourselves and our planet.

As silly as it sounds, it's surprisingly refreshing to find yourself put on the spot by a 600 lb gorilla, even if he is fictional.



This book was certainly a mind-opener for me, and for several of the high school students I taught. Even those who disliked seem affected (or at least engaged) by the resulting lively debates. Now I invite you to buy it, read it, and discuss amongst yourself (or here in the comment boards on Superforest!)

Find it here at Amazon. And enjoy!

Always merry and bright!
-jordan

Senate Blocks Far-Reaching Energy Bill

From the New York Times

Dudes,

Let get together on this one. We know there's big money to be made in prolonging the end of fossil fuels, we know that.

It's just that, every time I walk down the street and all I can smell is car exhaust, and I happen to think about how our cars mpg's have actually gone DOWN in the last hundred years, and then come home and read about The House or the Senate shooting down some bill to make cleaner cars, and ensure cleaner air, that's when I think: Thank heavens I live in New York and can enjoy this city's incredible public transportation!

You can fight against progress, or you can work for it.

Higher mpg's and cleaner air is progress.

Shooting down bills that would ensure those things is not progress.

It's Congress! (Sorry, I couldn't resist.)

So when you see things like this, down let it get you down, just go online and check out the specs on the Aptera, or read about Japan's Mag-Lev trains, or about Amsterdam's awesome public bicycle system.

Then think to yourself: "We should have all of those things here! We deserve the best and brightest. We deserve the cleanest, and fastest, and smartest!
We deserve these things because: We're America! Land of the free! Home of the brave! Defender of Liberty! Give us your poor, your tired, your huddled masses!
There's opportunity for all here in this great land of ours!"

Little by little, we scrape off the dead skin and emerge fresh, bright, and renewed.


Look out for one another. Keep each other safe.

Love to all,

Jackson