Taste of Science SF
For those in the San Francisco bay area, I will be giving a 15-minute presentation Thursday April 27th 7:30-9:30pm at the TechShop on “The effects of pollution on organism signaling and human health.” TechShop 926 Howard Street San Francisco California 94103 Taste of...Music and Preventative Medicine
In UCSF’s local online news source Synapse, I have an article about why its a good idea for preventative medicine not to axe the Chancellor’s Concert Series here.Learning from Science in an Age of Marketing
“It was widely believed thalidomide would be useful to control morning sickness. It did – but it did other things, too. We need evidence, but unregulated marketing does not help us get needed data.” –A colleague at UCSF The epidemic of reductionism...Truth and Facts in an Extramoral Sense
Today at UCSF, I had the chance to hear Michael Specter deliver the 2017 Chauncey D. Leake Lecture: “Do Facts Still Matter? And What Does It Mean If They Don’t?” It brought out all of San Francisco’s good liberals, concerned about Trump’s...Not My Problem
I’ve been seeing on social media a new meme, which I had already been thinking about for sometime. I found it compelling, because it is true: the virtue of solidarity is lost on Americans. Unlike a more communal society that is of the belief that we cannot truly...Upcoming Talk in Berkeley at Terra’s Temple
I’m excited to share my research interests with a more diverse audience February 19th at Terra’s Temple, an earth-based spirituality center and place of dedicated practice in Berkeley. This translation process of academic research into practical knowledge...Presentation at COLEF
Last Tuesday evening, November 29, 2016, I had the honor to present at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (COLEF), in Tijuana, Mexico. Through UCSD’s Interdisciplinary Forum on Environmental Research supported by the Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation...Standing Rock
Well, I’m heading off to Standing Rock to spend Thanksgiving with the Native Americans of North America. The indigenous Water Protectors of Standing Rock have taken an unprecedented stand against the corporate interests of fossil fuel industries and their...Philosophy of the City Conference
This week in San Francisco, I’ll be presenting at the Philosophy of the City Conference November 17-19 on November 17th at 4pm on “The Limits of the Automobile City.” My talk, alongside the “Extending the Land Ethic” National Endowment of...An Obituary for Douglas Tompkins
Douglas Tompkins (1943-2015) was a mountaineer, Deep Ecologist, conservation activist, lover of nature, and textile entrepreneur, founder of Esprit and North Face. A footloose entrepreneur turned activist, after starting two global clothing brands, Tompkins renounced...Bioneers 2016
This is the first time since I moved back to California last November that I’ve been able to engage a world-class group of scholars and change-makers gathered together with the sole purpose of harmonizing human systems with natural ones. Last weekend at...Ensemblist Identities and the Ecological Self
I’ll be presenting October 5, 2016, 6:30-8:30pm at the California Institute of Integral Studies on the book I’m working on, Interspecies Politics. The presentation, “Ensemblist Identities and the Ecological Self” is part of my larger...The Greening of Everyday Life
The Greening of Everyday Life (2016, Oxford) is a new volume edited by John M. Meyer and Jens M. Kersten. A international collection of essays, it originates from a highly productive and original 2014 Rachel Carson Center symposium by the same name. I’m happy to...The Wood Wide Web
The Wood Wide Web is the term used to encapsulate the communication systems between trees in forests. Through the mycorrhiza (fungal networks) in the soil, trees trade and share nutrients. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8SORM4dYG8] Jennifer Frazer’s...
2016 APSA appearances
Please visit one of the exciting panels I’m participating in this year in Philadelphia at the annual APSA Conference. Collective Action, Environmental Politics, and (Nonhuman) Animal Rights Division 3: Normative Political Theory Thu, September 1, 2:00 to...Democracy and the TPP?
Here’s a short post I wrote for Medium on the undemocratic features of the Trans-Pacific Partnership.Agroecology Now
This is my response to Frances Moore Lappé’s recent essay Farming for a Small Planet: Agroecology Now on the Great Transitions Network’s website. Yogi Hendlin, “Commentary on ‘Farming for a Small Planet: Agroecology Now,'” Great...Desperate for Nature
The Guardian recently aired an article on a boutique hedgehog petting zoo-café that opened in Tokyo. For $9 per person, visitors can drink coffee and cuddle these animals. Popular with kids and adults alike, this café, named Harry to pun on the Japanese pronunciation...Normal is Over
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...Los Angeles and the Methane Crisis
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...
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