Peter Frankopan’s The Earth Transformed: An Untold Story, explores the relationship between climate and human civilizations. He points out that over millennia, people have responded to climate changes by fighting over limited resources. This weeks inspiration quote calls for a new approach to conflict: “Climate change won’t kill us, we’ll kill each other over the remaining scraps of civilization. We […]
Let’s venture into the history of trees, wood, and the axe. Everywhere humans have gone they’ve mowed down trees to make tools, homes, fires, bridges, buildings, and even railroad tracks. Yes, the first railroads often ran on wooden rails, as author John Perlin explains in a new edition of his classic book, A Forest Journey: The Role of Trees in […]
Let’s venture into the history of trees, wood, and the axe. Everywhere humans have gone they’ve mowed down trees to make tools, homes, fires, bridges, buildings, and even railroad tracks. Yes, the first railroads often ran on wooden rails, as author John Perlin explains in a new edition of his classic book, A Forest Journey: The Role of Trees in […]