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The Land Ethic for AI

We have long drawn a dividing line between technology and humans, imbuing one with ethical responsibility and treating the other as merely contingent— therefore, technologies are “neutral” and it’s simply…
July 1, 2025

“We Hide behind the Tomatoes”: A Review of On Common Ground

Community Land Trusts, at their best, are less about development and more about stewardship, creating just places for the long-term. CLTs are thus the ultimate preservationists, the developer/landowner who never…
August 9, 2021

Conservation by the Yard

I begin with a proposition adapted from Wendell Berry—namely, that mowing is an ecological act. Mowing extends the perennial drama of photosynthesis and carbon cycling. Too few lawn owners, however,…

Four Words to Change the World

Situate the preference where it is, not where it isn’t.
Jason Peters
July 9, 2014