Mature eco-systems are not created overnight.  Energy hungry weeds will quickly cover the bare soil. Overtime, more efficient and diverse plant life emerges. Our global economy is very much like this. Unlike Native the American history of living in harmony with nature, when Europeans first colonized the Americas, they quickly and thinly spread across the

  Fossil records indicate that humans have only been present on Earth for less than 1% of 1% of the Earth’s existence.  This equates to about 10,000 years and is referred to as the Holocene age. The Holocene era is notable for the wide spreading of mammals (particularly Humans) and flowering plants. Despite the relatively

Exactly one year ago today, I was driving through Jamestown, VA. I saw a billboard for  a “Historic Jamestown Fort and Powhatan Village”. I decided on a whim to stop in and check it out.  As I made my through the historic park I met a man dressed in Native American garments tending to an