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Overview

  • 5 references
  • Fluent in English; learning French
  • 36, Male
  • Member since 2008
  • eating local and whole foods, living collectively, studyi...
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  • From Atlanta, GA USA
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Become-feral.

Interests

you, permaculture, appropriate technology, urban agriculture, parasitism, open-source hardware, cultura libre, open culture, participatory economics, fruit, skillet monkey cooking, jazz, capitalism, schizophrenia, veganism, anarchism, bicycling, squatting, globalization, resilience theory, afrobeat, internationalism, privilege, biopunk, voip, veganics, electronic art, analog acid, polyamory, memetics, 21st century economic warfare, scale, networks, mysticism, ecological economics, ecological design, regenerative design, spanish, danish, german, french, catalan, diy, ethics, mycology, panarchy, harmonica, old growth forests, places, placemaking, play!

  • arts
  • culture
  • design
  • diy
  • ethics
  • dining
  • cooking
  • walking
  • electronics
  • gardening
  • politics
  • technology
  • billiards
  • jazz
  • agriculture
  • economics

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

One misty spring afternoon while walking along a small river through a young deciduous forest in Lancashire N. England I decided to break off the path and venture down to the water. After sitting on a tree trunk overhanging a deep pool I scrambled up the river bank and disturbed a stone. I examined the stone in hand and discovered a pea sized beige fuzzy on the underside. Upon closer examination I discovered that this fuzzy was a small spider covered in fungal growth. This little spider was infected and had died from a parasitic cordyceps mushroom. Somehow a spore from this cordyceps found its way through the forest to land on the spider, infect its brain, and lead it to the underside of this rock where it clung on with a death grip while the mushroom ate its insides and popped out its head.

Teach, Learn, Share

permaculture design, dietary ethics, food politics, global economics, biofuels, appropriate technology, geographic information systems, grafting plants, electronics, bricoleur, becoming-human, becoming-feral, cultural theory & socio-ecological systems, poststructuralism, gardening

Countries I’ve Visited

Czech Republic, Russian Federation, Sweden, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United Kingdom, United States

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