by Yogi Hale Hendlin | May 2, 2026 | CDoH, Discursive Gap, Industrial Epidemics, Public Health, Publications, Systems thinking
Happy to announce a new article from Luc Hagenaars, Grant Ennis, and myself in JAMA Health Forum on the “Harms of Framing Obesity as a Disease of Individuals.” GLP-1s have been heralded as wonder drugs, finally providing relief from obesogenic environments...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Apr 8, 2026 | beyond idealism, Biosemiotics, Discursive Gap, Presentations, Semiotics, Systems thinking
Invitation to join Semiofest For those who haven’t yet peeped through the keyhole that is commercial semiotics, there is a biannual conference that features the state-of-the-art of the industry. Commercial semiotics since its relatively recent inception has...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Feb 20, 2026 | animals, Biomimicry, Biophilia, Biosemiotics, deep ecology, Interspecies Communication, philosophy of science
I was recently asked by a colleague the question: Why is fun, fun? As David Graeber suggests in ‘What’s the point if we can’t have fun?’ what Jared Diamond gets wrong in his book Why Is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality is that there doesn’t...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Feb 16, 2026 | agroecology, Biomimicry, Biophilia, collapsology, Decolonization, deep ecology, Ecovillages, Naturverlassenheit, permaculture, SolarPunk
An open-access book, Eco-Social Contracts for Sustainable and Just Futures edited by Patrick Huntjens, Najma Mohamed, Katja Hujo, Manisha Desai was just published, including a chapter Varieties of Eco-Social Contracts in Japanese Ecovillages and Coliving-Coworking...
