by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Mar 1, 2019 | agroecology, Conferences, Environmental Political Theory, exploitation, Extended Producer Responsibility, folly, glyphosate, Industrial Epidemics, Normal is Over, Perverse Incentives, philosophy of science, Plants, pollution, Side-effects, Syndemics, Systems thinking, Talks
My Erasmus University Rotterdam colleague Alessandra Arcuri and I are organizing a day-long workshop on the most used pesticide in the world: glyphosate. Glyphosate, the active ingredient in RoundUp, Monsanto’s flagship herbicide, has been linked with cancer by...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Sep 10, 2017 | agroecology, animals, Biophilia, Biosemiotics, Bureaucratic quixotic, Communication, conservation, deep ecology, Interspecies Communication, permaculture, Perverse Incentives, Plants, Priorities, Side-effects, Systems thinking
With such a provocative title as “Pet Ownership Protects Us Against Allergies,” UCSF’s Dr. Homer Boushey makes the claim that children brought up with pets inherit some of their protective microbes that mitigate against developing allergies....
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Jun 6, 2017 | Biosemiotics, Communication, philosophy of science, Plants, Systems thinking, Uncategorized
In case you missed it, a chapter in Michael Marder’s Minnesota Press book Grafts on plant philosophy contains a short piece we wrote together.