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prairie dogs & cosmopolitics in Santa Fe

Posted in Eco-culture, Eco-theory, Philosophy, Politics, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , , , , on August 22, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Over the past several days I’ve gone from the cool wetness of Alaska’s southeast coast to the high dryness of north-central New Mexico. The first was pure holiday, accompanied by loved ones (including those who generously funded it) and featuring glaciers, salmon, a black bear (devouring one of the salmon), a ride on one of […]

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mercy mercy me (the ecology)

Posted in Eco-culture, Music & soundscape, tagged , on June 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »

The explicitly ecological piece on Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On was Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology), which, like a lot of his music at the time, fuses a clear-eyed realism with an optimistic, gospel-tinged sense of possibility. I’m not sure where this video comes from (or why David Bowie appears in it), but the shots […]

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ASLE’s rabbits & cougars, or whither ecocriticism?

Posted in Eco-culture, Philosophy, Politics, tagged , , on June 5, 2009 | 8 Comments »

There are rabbits all over the lawns of the University of Victoria campus. Like little furry grass-eating balls, they scurry forward a little from time to time but otherwise placidly chomp away at the lawns, oblivious to humans or anything else. Sometimes they just sit there, or lay themselves out and stare forward, cutely extending […]

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Brulle’s response to Lakoff

Posted in Eco-culture, Politics, tagged , on May 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Robert Brulle has kindly shared his reply to George Lakoff’s article “Why Environmental Understanding, or ‘Framing,’ Matters.” See below for further discussion of the article. I found Dr. Lakoff’s comments quite interesting and revealing of the limitations of cognitive science in the analysis of social change processes. From a sociological perspective, attitudes and beliefs are […]

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Lakoff’s environmental frames vs. Connolly’s resonance machines

Posted in Eco-culture, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , on May 20, 2009 | 6 Comments »

In Why Environmental Understanding, or “Framing,” Matters, published today on the Huffington Post (and on AlterNet), liberal framing guru George Lakoff provides a useful critique of a forthcoming EcoAmerica report on the framing of environmental and climate change issues. While his conclusions are perceptive and make the article a valuable read — I’ll get to […]

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Story of scary Stuff

Posted in Eco-culture, Politics, Visual culture, tagged , , , , , on May 15, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Environmental pied piper Annie Leonard’s 20-minute teaching video The Story of Stuff got five minutes of frantic Fox News treatment a few days ago — which means it’s making an impact out there in the wilds of America. New York Times Education writer Leslie Kaufman, writing about it on Sunday, noted that six million people […]

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Obama as the “green FDR” in the age of Swine Flu

Posted in Eco-culture, Politics, tagged , on April 29, 2009 | 2 Comments »

WorldChanging shares Joe Romm’s “The Green FDR: Obama’s First 100 Days Make – and May Remake – History,” which compiles a nice account from Climate Progress of the good things the Obama administration has done on the environmental front. According to Romm, “three game-changing accomplishments stand out:” “1. Green Stimulus: Progressives, Obama keep promise to […]

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