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 […]
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The frame game
Posted in Eco-culture, Manifestos & auguries, tagged creative thinking, Edward De Bono, framing, lateral thinking, pluralism, Po on November 10, 2017 | 4 Comments »
Post-vegetarian food ethics, continued…
Posted in Eco-culture, 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 Eco-culture, 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 Eco-culture, Politics, tagged causes of environmental crisis, Danny Dorling, economics, environmental crisis, environmental economics, equality, global justice, inequality, neoliberalism on July 5, 2017 | 18 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 Climate change, Eco-culture, tagged agency, 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 […]
What’s over that dark mountain?
Posted in Eco-culture, Eco-theory, 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 Eco-culture, Science & society, Spirit matter, 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 | 1 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 […]
Offsetting the New York Times
Posted in Eco-culture, Media ecology, tagged air travel, carbon accounting, carbon offsets, indulgences, New York Times on October 26, 2016 | 2 Comments »
A friend shared a post about a seemingly unbelievable “opportunity” for the world’s ultra-rich — to “circle the globe on an inspiring and informative journey by private jet, created by The New York Times in collaboration with luxury travel pioneers Abercrombie & Kent.” On this 26-day itinerary, you’d be taken “beneath the surface of some […]
World Listening Day
Posted in Eco-culture, Music & 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 […]
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