{"id":1030,"date":"2009-02-22T19:51:58","date_gmt":"2009-02-23T00:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2009\/02\/22\/a-pretty-complex-history-of-sustainability\/"},"modified":"2009-02-22T19:51:58","modified_gmt":"2009-02-23T00:51:58","slug":"a-pretty-complex-history-of-sustainability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2009\/02\/22\/a-pretty-complex-history-of-sustainability\/","title":{"rendered":"a pretty complex history of sustainability…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every grad student in environmental studies (and related areas) should be quizzed on this map: The Complex History of Sustainability<\/a>. Departments could be evaluated based on how well they cover the spectrum portrayed in it… Within reason, of course — we don’t really need an eco-Nazi, a global warming conspiracy theorist, or even a libertarian transhumanist onboard. My question is: can this be made into a wiki-style collaborative, multi-dimensional, open-source work-in-progress?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every grad student in environmental studies (and related areas) should be quizzed on this map: The Complex History of Sustainability. Departments could be evaluated based on how well they cover the spectrum portrayed in it… Within reason, of course — we don’t really need an eco-Nazi, a global warming conspiracy theorist, or even a libertarian […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[196],"tags":[4420,4433],"class_list":["post-1030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ecoculture","tag-ecology","tag-sustainability"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4IC4a-gC","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1031,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2009\/02\/23\/more-on-complex-sustainabilities\/","url_meta":{"origin":1030,"position":0},"title":"more on complex sustainabilities","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"February 23, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"The \"Complex History\" mentioned below was published on Archis.org, which also features an interesting essay on architecture's \"Counter-Histories of Sustainability\". Meanwhile, on the eve of the Oscars it's interesting to note that globe-trotting green architect Bill McDonough has been making inroads with the Hollywood eco-set, all the while losing some\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Eco-culture"","block_context":{"text":"Eco-culture","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/category\/ecoculture\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1115,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2009\/09\/02\/pleasures-of-the-unsustainable\/","url_meta":{"origin":1030,"position":1},"title":"pleasures of the (un)sustainable","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"September 2, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"A propos yesterday's post on transition culture and the Bataillian (versus Malthusian) thermodynamics of ecopolitics, the new issue of the Harvard Design Magazine, on \"(Sustainability) + Pleasure,\" turns out to be all over this topic. 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