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Equinoxx

Posted in Climate change, Manifestos & auguries, tagged , , , , , on March 24, 2021 | Leave a Comment »

Equinoxes and solstices are geometrical phenomena. They mark the passage of time in ways that are easy to understand and more or less universal. I understand people’s desire to watch for them, to mark them out, and to even reclaim them as somehow more primordial than other kinds of temporal passage points. But changing seasons […]

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Local election call

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , , , on February 26, 2021 | 3 Comments »

I don’t usually write about local politics on this blog. But why not? Here’s my prediction for next Tuesday’s Burlington,* Vermont, mayoral election. Let this be a test of how good, or bad, I’ve gotten at observing my city’s politics. (For outsiders: this is the city where Bernie Sanders cut his political chops as mayor […]

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Planet of Some Humans

Posted in Cinema, Climate change, Eco-culture, Visual culture, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 1, 2020 | 5 Comments »

This past week has seen a firestorm of reaction among environmentalists and climate and energy scientists to the online release of the film Planet of the Humans. Written, directed, and produced by first-time director Jeff Gibbs, but — much more importantly — executive-produced and actively promoted by Michael Moore, the film is incendiary and intentionally […]

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Vermonters & climate change

Posted in Climate change, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , on November 30, 2018 | 3 Comments »

I was interviewed yesterday by the local CBS-affiliated WCAX news show on the topic of how to motivate Vermonters to take action on climate change (while Bernie Sanders and Cornel West were speaking just up the road). What was used of our interview was fairly minimal, so I thought I would share the notes I […]

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Ontology, decoloniality, and the people-land nexus

Posted in Eco-culture, Philosophy, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on November 5, 2017 | 7 Comments »

Here’s something I’ve written to accompany a reading and discussion of Arturo Escobar’s piece “Thinking-feeling with the Earth: Territorial Struggles and the Ontological Dimensions of the Epistemologies of the South,” which I proposed as my suggested reading contribution for an intro graduate class in Environment and Society. I’m sharing it here as a brief think-piece.  […]

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Whitehead in Greensboro

Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged , , , , , , on July 6, 2016 | 3 Comments »

This post follows up on my previous note about Alfred North Whitehead’s time spent in Greensboro, Vermont. It was updated on July 7, 2016, thanks to information obtained from the Mitchells’ descendants. I have found out where the Whiteheads stayed when he was writing his philosophical magnum opus, Process and Reality. It was in a two-story cottage owned by economist Wesley […]

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Whitehead’s genius loci

Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged , , , , , , on June 20, 2016 | 2 Comments »

I was astounded to read the following passage as I sat in a cottage on the shore of Caspian Lake in Greenboro, Vermont, earlier today: “Work on ‘The Concept of Organism’ began with the summer of 1927, which the Whiteheads spent in a cottage on the shore of Caspian Lake, in Greensboro, Vermont. It was there […]

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GMO debate: New Yorker vs. Vandana Shiva

Posted in Eco-culture, Politics, tagged , , , , , , on November 3, 2014 | 1 Comment »

With its passage of Act 120 this past June, Vermont became the first U.S. state to require mandatory labeling of foods containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs). (This followed Connecticut’s and Maine’s decisions to require it once adjacent states do.) Since then, GMO food manufacturers have announced they will challenge that decision in court. Meanwhile, critics of GMOs […]

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Humming the new earth

Posted in Science & society, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on August 10, 2014 | 18 Comments »

[Note: This post has been edited slightly since it was first published, to clarify the difference between sound waves and radio waves.] Everything new under the sun begins as an anomaly; but not everything thought to be new is genuinely new. Everything new and anomalous, if studied in the right way, can be explained; but it may take years […]

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Nice or what?

Posted in Eco-culture, Visual culture, tagged , , on July 17, 2013 | 4 Comments »

The above is (a) beautiful, (b) ugly, (c) neither beautiful nor ugly in itself (nor anything else in particular), or (d) _________ (fill in the blank)? It’s a view (on a particularly hazy day) of the Sheffield wind power project in northeast Vermont, as seen from Crystal Lake State Park beach outside the town of […]

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Our little state capital goes Venice

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged on May 31, 2011 | 3 Comments »

Hat tip to Cheryl at World of Music, who shares her own slide show here. And this is child’s play compared to the tornadoes and flooding in this country’s midwest.

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coming home

Posted in Eco-culture, Spirit matter, tagged on June 3, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Visiting Montreal is always enjoyable, even if the many overlapping conferences that are part of every year’s so-called Learneds kept me busier than I wanted to be. But there’s something about the trip back down to Vermont that has grown on me over the last seven years since I moved here. It’s not the border […]

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