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The machine has stopped: what now?

Posted in Manifestos & auguries, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 19, 2020 | 5 Comments »

The “reopening” of the world’s economies, locally and nationally, piece by piece, after the sudden and massive stoppage of the entire economic system, is raising important questions about whether the system can be put back into motion selectively and into a more viable direction than it had been moving beforehand. Some observers have suggested, optimistically, […]

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Inequality and environmental crisis

Posted in Eco-culture, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , 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 […]

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The flight of the bumbleblog

Posted in Academe, Blog stuff, Politics, tagged , , , , , on March 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

By Jon Cloke Loughborough University geographer Jon Cloke shared this piece with the Crit-Geog-Forum in response to the recent discussion about blogs and social media (see here for more on that). Jon’s been kind enough to allow me to share it on Immanence. I think it provocatively gets at the larger picture in which blogs […]

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Ostrom on climate change

Posted in Climate change, Eco-culture, Politics, tagged , on November 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Derek Wall at the eco-lefty Another Green World has just alerted us to an excellent piece new Nobel Laureate Elinor Ostrom has written on the climate change debate. Please read it, ye Copenhagen-bound.

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Ostrom’s Nobel, the commons, & blog flow

Posted in Eco-culture, Politics, tagged , , , , on October 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Several days of silence calls for at least a whimper of sound here… I’ve been on the road (Washington, DC, Boston, and tomorrow Montreal) and writing for crisp deadlines in amidst the travel. And I’m still uncertain as to whether it’s better to post little snippets just to keep the flow coming to your blog […]

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