Sandra has been an innovator in higher education, founding one of the first graduate programs in sustainability at Northern Arizona University.
“Wider” Education and Communiversities
A form of education that makes community the substance and goal of education, the communiversity entails a shift in mindset, ethos, and purpose.
April 9, 2024
Sustainability can (and must) be beautiful
To fulfill the vision that sets the practice of sustainability in motion—the vision of life coordinating with life in ways that ensure the flourishing of life—ethics and aesthetics must be reintegrated.
February 1, 2023
Speak the Name of Beauty
It is important to make the connection between beauty and nature obvious and to name beauty as the quality in nature we so desire. If we don’t, we continue allegiance to the very paradigm that has been so destructive of the human-nature relations, the paradigm that erased value from the natural world and made beauty nothing more than a subjective opinion.
August 2, 2019