Feeds:
Posts
Comments

Archive for the ‘Uncategorized’ Category

out of the blue (Glen Elder passes away)

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged on May 22, 2009 | 4 Comments »

I’m very sad to hear that a friend and colleague, geographer and Africanist Glen Elder, has passed away following a heart attack. Glen was a warmhearted, passionate scholar, former chair of Geography and current Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences at the University of Vermont. He had just given a captivating performance as master of […]

Read Full Post »

free access to ISLE until May 15

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged on March 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, which has been the leading forum for what’s come to be known as “ecocriticism” over the past 15 years or so, has finally caught up with the times and gone digital, thanks to the deal it arranged with its new publisher, Oxford. To celebrate the transition, all issues […]

Read Full Post »

book list

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged on January 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Read Full Post »

rigpa meets anima…

Posted in Eco-theory, Uncategorized, tagged , , on December 14, 2008 | 4 Comments »

Rigpa is the state of compassionate awareness that, according to Mahayana Buddhism, is the innermost nature of the mind. It is the primordial, nondual mind that shines through when unobscured; intelligent, cognizant, awake. “Empty in essence, cognizant in nature, unconfined in capacity.” Recognizing and dwelling within rigpa is the goal of Dzogchen practice (a kind […]

Read Full Post »

« Newer Posts

Skip to toolbar