Weekly Pose Ponder No. 18

Summarizing the week's posts -- natural history: plants & geology; a new collaborative reading project on Storythinking; Overton political economy; and Good or Bad Anthropocene: Posed.

Jun 29, 2024

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This week I shared some new-to-me Substacks on natural history, including plant biology and earth science.

Dan Allosso

and I started a collaborative reading project on Storythinking, the book by Angus Fletcher. In the latter part of the week, I’ve been thinking hard about what’s going on at Breakthrough Insitute and related corners of Substack vis a vis other approaches to political economy in the Anthropocene.

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Findings: Plant Sex

Tracy Gustilo

Jun 24

Interesting finds and what I’ve been reading. Anthropocene First off, the state of nuclear. The world's only coal-to-nuclear reactor plant just broke ground in Wyoming | Electrek Bill Gates’ TerraPower broke ground yesterday on its Natrium nuclear reactor plant, making it the first advanced reactor project ever to start construction.

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Storythinking Collaboration

Storythinking with Tracy - by Dan Allosso and Tracy Gustilo (pondercraft.com) cross-posted from MakingHistory.

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Storythinking with Tracy

Storythinking: The New Science of Narrative Intelligence, Angus Fletcher, 2023 Angus Fletcher is an English Professor at Ohio State University in Columbus. He has written extensively on narrative, rhe…

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Let's Talk Outcrop

Tracy Gustilo

Jun 26

I always thought my son would be a geologist. At the tender age of seven or so, he was all about plate tectonics. Then it was rocks and rock polishing. Clambering around our local mesas and arroyos. But as he got older, he had a neighbor who was into physics, and that evolved into a love for space and astrophysics, and now he works as an aerospace engin…

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To Grow or Not to Grow

Tracy Gustilo

Jun 27

I’m a big fan of the Overton Window concept. Basically, it’s the idea that there’s a range of policy positions — could also apply to everyday life ideas — that make up the range of socially acceptable but debatable points. Beyond the edges of the “window” you get into territory that the vast majority of people won’t accept. It’s too radical or too dange…

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Posed: Good or Bad Anthropocene?

Tracy Gustilo

Jun 28

I had two ambitious ideas for resource Friday today, but I’m going to punt on both. I was sitting in the dentist chair this morning getting a crown on a cracked tooth, and my jaw hurts. In any case, apropos of yesterday’s essay, this new post from Breakthrough just hit my inbox, and it’s right down our alley here at Trying-to-Be-Good-Humans-in-the-Anthro…

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Pose Ponder

Weekly Pose Ponder No. 18

Summarizing the week's posts -- natural history: plants & geology; a new collaborative reading project on Storythinking; Overton political economy; and Good or Bad Anthropocene: Posed.

Findings: Plant Sex

Storythinking Collaboration

Let's Talk Outcrop

To Grow or Not to Grow

Posed: Good or Bad Anthropocene?

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