I recently visited Detroit (for the ASLE “Rust/Resistance” conference) and was interested in seeing how it’s changed since I wrote this (brief) piece. Given how little time I spent there, my impressions aren’t worth much, but here they are.
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Detroit as template for urban change?
Posted in EcoCulture, tagged anarchism, car culture, cities, collapse of western civilization, decline of western civilization, Detroit, eco-anarchism, Motor City, regeneration, urban agriculture, urban apocalypse on July 10, 2017 | 3 Comments »
Inequality and environmental crisis
Posted in EcoCulture, Politics, tagged causes of environmental crisis, Danny Dorling, economics, environmental crisis, environmental economics, equality, global justice, inequality, neoliberalism on July 5, 2017 | 2 Comments »
As part of its Ford Foundation supported Inequality Project, The Guardian is providing a provocative glimpse of Oxford geographer Danny Dorling’s important research into inequality and the environment. It should be required reading for anyone interested in the complexities surrounding causes and potential solutions to the environmental crisis. Read the article here. No surprise that the US […]
Mapping climate change solutions
Posted in EcoCulture, tagged agency, climate change, climate solutions, Paul Hawken on May 12, 2017 | 2 Comments »
In the parallel universe where good news remains possible… A team or 70 researchers from 22 countries and led by Paul Hawken has produced a very interesting analysis of potential climate change solutions. The analysis, released last month as a book called Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming, “maps, measures, models, and describes the […]
What’s over that dark mountain?
Posted in EcoCulture, GeoPhilosophy, tagged eco-justice, eco-nationalism, ecofascism, globalism, globalization, Heidegger, localism, Paul Kingsnorth on March 22, 2017 | 8 Comments »
Paul Kingsnorth’s “The Lie of the Land: Does Environmentalism Have a Future in the Age of Trump?“, published in last Saturday’s Guardian, has elicited some interesting responses, for interesting reasons. Kingsnorth is a well known novelist and environmental public intellectual, a back-to-the-land “dark ecologist,” former deputy-editor of The Ecologist (which for decades played an indispensible, […]
Returning to Sedona
Posted in EcoCulture, tagged Arizona, Claiming Sacred Ground, Coconino National Forest, eco-pilgrimage, ecological management, environmental management, heterotopia, landscape, National Forests, political ecology, Red Rock Country, sacred landscapes, Sedona, Sedona Verde Valley Red Rock National Monument, U. S. Forest Service, vortexes, vortices on November 20, 2016 | Leave a Comment »
Three things have drawn me repeatedly to the red rock landscape around the small north-central Arizona city of Sedona. First, and most obvious, is the landscape itself, which counts among the most distinctive and stunningly beautiful in the world. Second is the set of processes that landscape has set in motion in the conditions of late capitalist […]
World Listening Day
Posted in EcoCulture, SoundScape, tagged acoustic ecology, ecomusicology, global hum, soundscape, soundscape ecology, World Listening Day on July 18, 2016 | 3 Comments »
Today is World Listening Day, a global event held annually to Celebrate the listening practices of the world and the ecology of its acoustic environments; Raise awareness about the growing number of individual and group efforts that creatively explore Acoustic Ecology based on the pioneering efforts of the World Soundscape Project, World Forum for Acoustic […]
Assessing Murray Bookchin’s legacy
Posted in EcoCulture, Politics, tagged Bookchin, Damian White, eco-anarchism, Janet Biehl, Kurdish revolutionary movement, libertarian municipalism, Murray Bookchin, Rojava on July 12, 2016 | 5 Comments »
Damian White has posted an excellent review of Janet Biehl’s book Ecology or Catastrophe: The Life of Murray Bookchin at the Jacobin blog. Bookchin’s legacy has undergone something of a revival of late thanks to the efforts of Kurdish eco-socialist communitarians in Rojava.
The I=PAT of mass murder, and its antithesis — joy
Posted in EcoCulture, Politics, tagged anti-liberalism, Bill Chaloupka, climate justice, Dugin, fundamentalism, global solidarity movement, green left, I=PAT, LGBTQ, liberalism, movement of movements, Naomi Klein, Omar Mateen, Orlando shootings, war and peace on June 15, 2016 | Leave a Comment »
Just as I=PAT serves as a handy, if problematic, formula for thinking about the causes of environmental impact, so I think there is a similar formula underlying tragedies like the massacre at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub. It goes something like this: Hate + Technology + Distress = Carnage/Chaos
State of the Eco-Humanities, Take 1
Posted in Academe, AnthropoScene, EcoCulture, tagged academic initiatives, conferences, eco-arts, eco-humanities, engaged scholarship, environmental humanities on June 8, 2016 | 4 Comments »
This post is the first of a series of reflections on the state of the Environmental Humanities, or Eco-Humanities, and of where this interdisciplinary field might be headed. A note on terminology: The term “Environmental Humanities” has caught on in ways that “Eco-Humanities” and other variations have not, but the debate between them has hardly occurred, […]
A case for a non-mammalian food ethic
Posted in EcoCulture, tagged diets, food ethics, freeganism, locavorism, mammalism, mammals, veganism, vegetarianism on January 12, 2016 | 8 Comments »
Vegetarianism has been part of my identity for the last 25 years (thanks to arguments like this one and this one), but I’ve been increasingly recognizing the term’s limits.
To bother (with protest), or not?
Posted in EcoCulture, Politics, tagged COP21, global climate change, Paris climate summit, protest, Srnicek and Williams on December 4, 2015 | 2 Comments »
Writing in The Independent, “Left accelerationists” Alex Williams and Nick Srnicek make the case that we need not bother protesting the Paris climate summit. There are better things to do than that. They argue, first, that the negotiators won’t change anything under pressure, and probably won’t even notice that pressure coming from the streets. (Especially […]
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