by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Jan 27, 2016 | Normal is Over, normalization
I had the pleasure of meeting filmmaker Renée Scheltema recently at the Nevada City Wild and Scenic Film Festival, and after realizing that she would be in town for a bit, we organized this event at San Francisco’s California Institute for Integral...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Jan 13, 2016 | Energy, Normal is Over, Priorities
There seems to be a proliferation of instances of catastrophe which Ulrich Beck long predicted in his work on our contemporary risk society. Certain events, like the continued unabated spewing nuclear radiation from TEPCO’s Fukushima Daichi plants, are...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Dec 31, 2015 | Uncategorized
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Dec 15, 2015 | Uncategorized
Even as the world rejoiced in Paris Saturday night, with the slogan “There is no Plan B” emblazoned in light projection on the Eiffel Tower, the accords usher in a lukewarm compromise. While the original United Nations World Summit on Sustainable...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Apr 17, 2015 | animals, cruelty, death, eating animals, frogs, meat, normalization
Not sure what to make of this. I respect the Japanese and their culture on so many counts – but amphibians are intelligent, and this seems to be excruciatingly cruel. To not be able to identify other living beings as having an inner world of their own, to treat...
