It’s become a cliché for people in environmental, policy, and even corporate circles to talk about the “triple bottom-line,” or the “three pillars” or “three-legged stool,” of sustainability. Those “pillars” are almost universally understood to be the economic, the environmental, and the social (sometimes rendered, more trenchantly, as social justice). Some have argued that a fourth, the cultural, should […]
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Beyond sustainability’s 3 pillars: an exercise in eco-political ontology
Posted in Anthropocene, Eco-culture, tagged Anthropocene, decoloniality, ecology, environment, environmental sociology, environmental thought, four pillars of sustainability, governance, governmentality, land, markets, Marshall Sahlins, Ontology, epistemology, people, political sociology, state, sustainability, sustainability science on December 1, 2017 | 9 Comments »
Tim Ingold & the liveliness of the living
Posted in Philosophy, tagged anthropology, books, ecology, environment, Ingold, life, Ontology, epistemology on June 14, 2011 | 6 Comments »
A new book by Tim Ingold is always good news, especially one that — like his 2000 collection Perception of the Environment — brings together several years’ worth of work into one volume. Ingold describes Being Alive: Essays on Movement, Knowledge and Description as “in many ways” a “sequel” to that earlier book, and it’s […]
Plastic planet
Posted in Eco-culture, tagged crisis, environment, plastic planet, toxic planet on March 6, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Discard Studies shares Max Liboiron’s engrossing, and depressing, account of the ocean’s toxic soup of plastics. A few quotes: “The best conservative estimate we have is that there are 315 billion pounds of plastic in the ocean. For comparison, The Gulf Spill spewed roughly 2.5 million pounds of oil per day at its peak. That […]
Chernobyl, May Day, & the (r)evolution of risk society
Posted in Eco-culture, Politics, Spirit matter, tagged environment, eventology, imagination, paganism, religion, revolutions on April 26, 2009 | 34 Comments »
Today was the 23rd anniversary of the nuclear accident in Chernobyl, Ukraine. I had been invited to give a sermon at a nearby Unitarian church connected to both this anniversary and the May Day (Beltane) that’s coming up in a few days, and my thoughts, in preparation, revolved around how both of those dates, along […]
tipping point ahead
Posted in Eco-culture, Visual culture, tagged ecomedia, environment on March 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s an effective little media piece: Wake Up, Freak Out – then Get a Grip from Leo Murray on Vimeo. Full screen is particularly nice, and the well referenced script gives it substance.
climate change victims
Posted in Eco-culture, Media ecology, tagged ecomedia, environment on December 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
On a visit to Ohio this week, I caught about ten minutes of an interview on a network TV station with a representative from the Maldives, talking about the plight they face with rising sea levels and the urgency of doing something about climate change at the Poznan, Poland, meeting. (See more.) It got me […]
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