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PAUL E NELSON

The MUD Proposal proposal

After writing about being accepted by The Mud Proposal (see: https://paulenelson.com/2020/01/01/the-mud-proposal/) I came across my cover letter for the Mud Proposal: Dear Editors, I am in year seven of a twenty year bioregional cultural investigation of Cascadia....

Bioregionalism in the Age of Crumbling Empire

It has been clear to me for a couple of decades now that WWIII is the planet vs. humans. Author and Nostradamus scholar John Hogue posited that in his 2000 book The Millennium Book of Prophecy, said it on my syndicated radio program when I interviewed him about the...

Racist Cascadia?

I was tagged in a Facebook post today because it was related to the concept of Cascadia and due to my work as a bioregionalist in the bioregion known by some as Cascadia. The post by Brian McCracken (who organized the Cascadia Regional Poetry Slam, part of the last...

Rifkin Meme/ Guaranteed Basic Income

It’s a Facebook meme and these are worth the paper they’re printed on, but I though this one was pretty good, so I shared it. I’d seen Jeremy Rikin give a lecture at Town Hall, discussing the sharing economy and the possibility that 3D printers will...

1992 Peter Berg Interview

I was a rookie interviewer in 1992, when I had the good fortune to be able to interview Peter Berg of the Planet Drum Foundation about the concept of bioregionalism. When I listen back to the audio, I wince, at the affectation and the inexperience I had at the time,...