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Posts Tagged ‘environmental studies’

Youth vs. Apocalypse: or, optimism of the will

Posted in Climate change, tagged , , , , , , , , , on October 29, 2021 | Leave a Comment »

It seems the world is coming to realize what Environmental Studies folks have been saying since I first became a Master’s student in that field 34 years ago: that humanity risks careening off the rails into a species-wide, if not planet-wide, smash-up unless it profoundly reorients the way it functions on this planet. That three-decade […]

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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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What’s the big deal? Or, whither universities…

Posted in Academe, Cultural politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 23, 2018 | 14 Comments »

A post-Commencement pep talk for myself (& academic friends who care to listen) It should be pretty obvious by now that predatory, extractive capitalism is not working, and that we need to move swiftly to a regenerative mixed economy grounded in a respect for living systems. The implications of that are pretty simple, but also […]

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What we ask students to read…

Posted in Academe, tagged , , , , , , , , , on March 19, 2016 | 3 Comments »

Both Open Culture and The New York Times have reported on the Open Syllabus Project, which has tallied over a million college course syllabi to determine the 10,000 or so most commonly assigned texts. The project also provides a cluster map of these texts, which is probably less interesting (and more confusing) in its large form than when one pokes […]

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Not just waiting for Godot

Posted in Anthropocene, tagged , , , , on September 11, 2015 | 19 Comments »

You may take this as more optimistic blathering from within the pessimistic morass, but here goes. Those of us who teach environmental studies — who teach impressionable young adults about the colossal challenges facing humanity in the coming decades, with the looming climate crisis, resource wars and (human and nonhuman) refugee crises, and mass extinction on a […]

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33⅓ Environmental Studies greats (or, a canon, revisited)

Posted in Academe, Eco-culture, tagged , , , , , , on April 9, 2015 | 10 Comments »

The following is a significantly revised version of an article I posted to the Indications blog (and etc) five and a half years ago. I was curious to see how much of it still holds (a lot, I think), so I’ve revisited it and expanded its proposed sort-of-canon, in the second part of what follows, into a list of […]

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Hiring…

Posted in Academe, tagged , , on December 11, 2014 | 4 Comments »

Note: This is an updated version of a previously posted notice. Our Environmental Studies program has announced a cluster hire — a search for three new tenure-track professors, at multiple levels from Assistant Professor to Program Director, under the overall umbrella of “Sustainability Studies and Global Environmental Equity.” Details on the cluster hire can be read here. Details on […]

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Under Western Skies 3

Posted in Academe, Eco-culture, tagged , , , on August 27, 2014 | 2 Comments »

The preliminary program is up for the third Under Western Skies conference, “Intersections of Environments, Technologies, Communities,” which will be held in a couple of weeks at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Alberta. And it looks fantastic. I think the biennial UWS gatherings are becoming one of the leading interdisciplinary forums for environmental thinking, critique, and […]

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The discipline of interdiscipline

Posted in Academe, tagged , , , , , on May 16, 2014 | Leave a Comment »

The Rachel Carson Center’s Minding the Gap: Working Across Disciplines in Environmental Studies has come out (in PDF and MOBI formats). It includes pieces by Gregg Mitman, Rob Nixon, SueEllen Campbell, John Meyer, Basarab Nicolescu, and others. My piece, “The Discipline of Interdisciplines” (pp. 11-13), is intended as something of a collective statement from my generation […]

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Political Ecology position

Posted in Academe, tagged , , on September 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

We’re been given the green light to announce the following tenure-track position in Environmental Studies and Geography. I’m chairing the Search Committee. Please pass it on to anyone you think will be interested. Review of applications will begin November 15.  The Department of Geography and the Environmental Studies Program at the University of Vermont invite […]

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Advice for environmental interdisciplinarians

Posted in Academe, tagged , , , on June 22, 2011 | 2 Comments »

The first issue of the new Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences is out and available here. The JESS is the journal of the Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences, which is meeting this week at the University of Vermont in Burlington (where I live and work, so I’ll be there). The first issue includes […]

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Story of scary Stuff

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvU_vhopKKc&rel=0&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&feature=player_embedded&fs=1 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 […]

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