Media+Environment, the new, open access, online, peer-reviewed journal of transnational and interdisciplinary ecomedia research published by the University of California Press, has launched its first issue and thematic stream, on “The States of Media+Environment.” The introduction can be read here. Articles can be accessed here.
Archive for the ‘EcoCulture’ Category
Media+Environment has launched
Posted in EcoCulture, MediaSpace, tagged ecocinema studies, ecomedia, ecomedia studies, media ecologies, media ecology, Media+Environment, open access on November 26, 2019 | 3 Comments »
Climate Action Week: What to watch for
Posted in EcoCulture, Politics, tagged capitalism, climate change, climate communication, climate justice, climate movement, Green New Deal, Greta Thunberg, memetic warfare, UN Climate Action Summit on September 16, 2019 | 3 Comments »
As people around the world prepare for Global Climate Strike Week (Sept. 20-27) and for the UN Climate Action Summit in New York City on Sept. 23, here are some thoughts and sources to help us think about what’s at stake, what’s possible, and what we can do. This blog may be updated as needed, […]
Tangerine Reef
Posted in EcoCulture, SoundScape, tagged Animal Collective, coral reefs, Coral Videography, International Year of the Reef on January 28, 2019 | 3 Comments »
And here is Animal Collective’s beautiful International Year of the Reef collaboration with marine biology art-science duo Coral Morphologic, entitled Tangerine Reef: More on Coral Videography, “pioneers of avant-garde coral macro-videography,” on their web site.
Beyond sustainability’s 3 pillars: an exercise in eco-political ontology
Posted in AnthropoScene, EcoCulture, tagged Anthropocene, decoloniality, ecology, environment, environmental sociology, environmental thought, four pillars of sustainability, governance, governmentality, land, markets, Marshall Sahlins, ontology, people, political sociology, state, sustainability, sustainability science on December 1, 2017 | 9 Comments »
It’s become a cliché for people in environmental, policy, and even corporate circles to talk about the “triple bottom-line,” or the “three pillars” or “three-legged stool,” of sustainability. Those “pillars” are almost universally understood to be the economic, the environmental, and the social (sometimes rendered, more trenchantly, as social justice). Some have argued that a fourth, the cultural, should […]
The frame game
Posted in EcoCulture, Politics, tagged creative thinking, Edward De Bono, framing, lateral thinking, pluralism, Po on November 10, 2017 | 4 Comments »
Spin the dial and see where it lands. Take several steps in that direction. Look around. Spin again. 1. Struggle, or The World at War Frame: We are at war. The war is between the good guys and the bad guys. We must triumph. (Variations: The war is between those who are plundering the planet […]
Post-vegetarian food ethics, continued…
Posted in EcoCulture, tagged diets, flexi-vegetarianism, flexitarianism, food ethics, freeganism, locavorism, mammalism, mammals, non-mammalian diet, post-vegetarianism, veganism, vegetarianism on August 18, 2017 | 9 Comments »
This post is a follow-up to my “case for a non-mammalian food ethic.” I’ve given that case some more thought and have decided that honesty requires more nuance than either continuing to call myself a (straight) vegetarian or calling myself a “non-mammalian.” The latter term is confusing in any case, since “mammalian” could either mean someone who […]
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 | 5 Comments »
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.
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 | 15 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 | 3 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 […]