High in the Andes, Potosà supplied the world with silver, and in return reaped goods and peoples from Burma to Baghdad. Read about my experience in Orion’s Cartwheel.
Lawrence Winkler is a physician, traveler, and natural philosopher. His molecules have morphed from medicine to manuscript. He lives with Robyn on Vancouver Island and in New Zealand, tending their gardens and vineyards, and dreams.
Saturday, 30 May 2020
The First Global City
High in the Andes, Potosà supplied the world with silver, and in return reaped goods and peoples from Burma to Baghdad. Read about my experience in Orion’s Cartwheel.
Planting Trees Won’t Stop Climate Change
Not only are planted trees not the carbon sinks you want, but tree planting frequently ends up doing more harm than good.
Thursday, 28 May 2020
Tuesday, 26 May 2020
Monday, 25 May 2020
A Window Onto an American Nightmare
As the homelessness crisis and the coronavirus crisis converge, what can we learn from one city’s struggles?
Money and Modern Life
Sociologist Georg Simmel diagnosed the character of modern city life: finance, fashion and becoming strangers to one another.
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