Columbia Gorge musings: Vision rising from place
Pay attention to context, sight tells me. Design our society, lives and communities within the ecological framework, and we will prosper, maybe even find some genuinely founded happiness in this life.
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Mary Evelyn Tucker: “Religion, Ecology, and the Future”
This week, religious scholar Mary Evelyn Tucker unpacks the entanglement of religion and ecology from an academic perspective.
Ecology? Look it up! You’re still involved
We cannot solve climate change or other symptoms of overshoot — including global injustices and the lingering threat of more pandemics — without really understanding and feeling deeply the lessons of wilderness, of ecology.
Taking Power in a Crisis: France’s Green Cities
In June 2020, after a drawn-out process punctuated by the peak of the health crisis, Green lists excelled in France’s municipal elections. They are now at the head of the executive in some of France’s largest cities, including Marseille, Lyon, Bordeaux, Strasbourg, and Tours.
Coronavirus Shows us it’s Time to Rethink Everything. Let’s Start with Education
As local authorities in Scotland point out, outdoor learning could be the best means of getting children back to school, as it permits physical distancing. It lends itself to re-engagement with the living world.
Standing for the Future
What does it mean to honor Grace Limits? Dowd considers Grace Limits to be “the inescapable, geological, ecological, and thermodynamic constraints to which humanity must rapidly adjust.”
Remembrance of Things Yet to Come: An Anti-Modernist Response to Ted Trainer
That being said, I find the alternative vision for the future that Trainer suggests improbable as well, though I should also add that it is only presented briefly in the article in question.
Going Beyond the “Ecological Turn”
Talk about the Anthropocene often has a tendency to rely on apolitical and colonialist assumptions. But the turn to ecology in the humanities will require acknowledging—and, more importantly, supporting—those peoples who have never turned their back on ‘ecology’ in the first place.
Solving Crime and Inequality, with a Seed
Is it possible for a humble seed and a patch of soil to be the catalysts for stronger, healthier, more equal urban communities?
The Degrowth Alternative
Both the name and the theory of degrowth aim explicitly to repoliticize environmentalism.
Lives Not Our Own
Keeping the Wild was conceived to confront the notion of human hegemony and also to join the growing conversation within the conservation movement about the so-called Anthropocene.
‘Stand’ a documentary film about British Columbia’s threatened coast (review)
The idea of blending sports action with a story about the Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline project first came to filmmakers Anthony Bonello and Nicolas Teichrob not long after Hann’s paddling adventure.