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Intimations (through the fog of an unwinding pandemic)…

Posted in Eco-culture, tagged , , , , , , , , on April 25, 2021 | Leave a Comment »

On the fifty-first Earth Day (this past Thursday), two of my classes premiered a virtual exhibition of environmentally themed art. Called “Intimations: Eco-Artistic Glimpses Through the Fog of an Unwinding Pandemic,” the exhibition features several dozen works in a multitude of media including paintings and drawings, digital images, collages, narrative poetry and haiku, 3-D works […]

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Earth Day dream, with St. Leonard of Westmount

Posted in Manifestos & auguries, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on April 22, 2020 | 1 Comment »

I dreamt that Leonard Cohen appeared by my bedside. He smiled and reassured me that things will be alright: “They will all have been beautiful in the end.” I wanted to ask him something, but wasn’t sure what. Then he was gone. The radio (it was Radio Moskva, from back when I spent a fall […]

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CFP: “When Corona Met Climate Change…”

Posted in Academe, Climate change, Media ecology, tagged , , , , , , , , on April 7, 2020 | 1 Comment »

Please share the following call for presenters: “When Corona Met Climate Change… What Changed?” A series of live, short (under 3 minutes), and creative responses to the intersection of coronavirus and climate change, 50 years after Earth Day and 50 years before Ecotopia Day (EarthDay+100).

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Pandemic politics: on disaster capitalism, socialism, and environmentalism

Posted in Academe, Climate change, Manifestos & auguries, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on March 30, 2020 | Leave a Comment »

This was originally posted over a week ago, but then taken down by request as it was being considered for publication elsewhere (but not published there). A shorter version of it appeared yesterday at VT Digger. The school I work for, the University of Vermont’s Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, recently undertook a […]

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Dark earth days

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , on April 22, 2013 | Leave a Comment »

Composing a worthwhile Earth Day post takes more energy than I have today, so instead I’ll link to Jeremy’s Earth post at Struggle Forever!  It articulates a thought I often feel on this day (surrounded as I get by students eager to maternalize the planet) but in a way that resonates with the weirdness of […]

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Earth Day 40

Posted in Climate change, Eco-culture, Politics, tagged , , , on April 23, 2010 | 4 Comments »

I’ve been posting links to Earth Day news in the shadow blog (which you can follow in the column to your right on the Immanence main page). The most interesting news, to my mind, was the initiative for a Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth and the calls to establish an international climate […]

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