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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 have...
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 blog at...
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 Transition Initiative (April...
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 Studies,...
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 world...
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Coping with COP21
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 Development in...
Cruelty?
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 them...
Here's a new short article I co-authored with plant philosopher Michael Marder that appears on a Los Angeles Review of Books channel: Communication with the Radicle Other It explores the linkages between certain naturalized notions of communication we have inherited...
Read more“I am pro-coal, and I am pro-coal miner. I will fight President Obama, the EPA, the Senate and anyone else who tries to undermine our coal jobs.”
“I am pro-coal,…
“I am pro-coal, and I am pro-coal miner. I will fight President Obama, the EPA, the Senate and anyone else who tries to undermine our coal jobs.” "In West Virginia, where coal is king, Senate candidate Natalie E. Tennant, a Democrat, quickly turned on Mr. Obama when...
Colony Collapse and the Global Swarm to Save the Bees
Pollinator activists around the world have taken different tactics to address the problem of massive bee die-offs. The pesticides of modern agriculture, especially neonicotinoids, have been discovered as a prime factor in the complex web of human activities leading to...