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Steelmanning Degrowth: The Catalytic Society
Degrowth is consistently maligned and misrepresented by both "growthers" who strawman it and radical "degrowthers" who are actually primitivists. I am…
Oct 31
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Patrick Heizer
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September 2024
'Not-So-Crazy' Crazy Idea #1: The American Prizes
Why do we let Sweden have the preeminent global awards?
Sep 10
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Patrick Heizer
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July 2024
Seven Lesser-Known Things I Learned Living in California
Short reflections on subtle things I learned living in California for six years.
Jul 24
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Patrick Heizer
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May 2024
Pandemic Lesson #5: No One Is Stopping Us But Ourselves
The final of five lingering thoughts that I'm taking away from the pandemic: We must give happiness a meaning once more to peoples poisoned by the…
May 20
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Patrick Heizer
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April 2024
Kumazawa Banzan: The Samurai Ecologist
Book review of "Governing the Realm and Bringing Peace to All Below Heaven" and five things that modern day America can learn from it.
Apr 3
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Patrick Heizer
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January 2024
How American Gray Wolves and Integrated Pest Management Explain a New Way To Treat Prostate Cancer
And somehow it all relates to Richard Nixon.
Jan 22
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Patrick Heizer
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December 2023
The Ten Best Books I Read This Year
Brief reviews of the best books that I read this year, in no particular order.
Dec 12, 2023
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Patrick Heizer
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November 2023
Blue Glade Farm: Our Second Year
In October 2021, my wife and I started a permaculture farm in Maryland. This is our second annual report.
Nov 15, 2023
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Patrick Heizer
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October 2023
Pandemic Lesson #4: Was Donald Trump the Best Of All Possible Worlds?
The fourth of five lingering thoughts that I'm taking away from the pandemic: mostly an excuse to discuss an under-appreciated Enlightenment thinker.
Oct 11, 2023
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Patrick Heizer
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July 2023
I Co-hosted an Episode Of the Doomer Optimism Podcast
We discussed the Montgomery County Agriculture Reserve, one of the most unique land use and conservation areas in the United States.
Jul 28, 2023
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Patrick Heizer
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June 2023
Our Fundamental Problem: Adolescence, Mouse Utopia, & Multi-polar Traps
The Counterpoint is a free newsletter that uses both analytic and holistic thinking to examine the wider world.
Jun 30, 2023
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Patrick Heizer
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February 2023
Blue Glade Farm: Master Plan (First Draft)
Seeking input on the plans for our permaculture farm.
Feb 25, 2023
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Patrick Heizer
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