Evidence of Free Range Humans and more…

To date, I have not seen a better urban image that captures the natural instincts of man to range freely in his environment. This is what humans do. There is no amount of planning that will  correct this impulse. This photo was taken by W. Cox and was used in an...

Green Perdition

This month’s edition of Whole Living Magazine features an essay written by Elizabeth Royte called Talk about an Energy Crisis. Ms. Royte has authored several books and her articles have been published by numerous niche publications. She describes herself as a...

Environmental Gurus Have a Change of Heart

Two propagators of the modernist environmental movement who had an enormous influence over a generation of hippies and their progeny are now realizing they may have overstepped and that their youthful ideology may have been irresponsible. James Lovelock, a former NASA...

California’s Regulatory Take-Down and its Cost to the Public

Our country’s focus on requiring sustainability principles in all land use, energy, and transportation policies is putting a choke hold on the American people that has them suffocating and pounding the mat for relief as they wrestle with the consequences of increasing...

Coexisting with Nature

Out here in exurbia we coexist with nature. Surprisingly, the first sounds of the day are not from cars, school buses or children walking to school, they are from the yelping coyotes or screeching barn owls at dawn followed by the sounds of ravens, hawks, roosters,...

newgeography.com

newgeography.com just published My Free Range Life! This is a great  honor. Newgeography is a national blog that focuses on “economic, demographic and political commentary about places”. In the vast ocean of public commentary about land use and the...

Outwitting Gophers

The gophers on our property are cute but their system of underground tunnels keep us busy; my husband and all three dogs especially. Down by the fruit orchard, there must be miles of tunnels and Charlie believes that they are getting fat off underground tubers from...

My Free Range Life

Welcome to Exurbia Chronicles! Many of you may have never heard of the term exurbia before now. According to the free on-line dictionary it means: The exurbs collectively; the region beyond the suburbs. Exurbia to me is an expression that defines a free range...