by Yogi Hale Hendlin | May 27, 2025 | Bureaucratic quixotic, chemicals, Climate Change, Conflicts of Interest, Environmental Justice, Environmental Political Theory, Extended Producer Responsibility, fake loops, folly, Fragmentation, Greenwashing, Indigenous Peoples, Industrial Epidemics, Perverse Incentives, pollution, Public Health, Side-effects, Systems thinking, Uncategorized
Why is Norway investing in the Amazon Fund when it has gigantic state-owned mining operations destroying the Amazon? This paradox, or contradiction could be dismissed as merely a really expensive greenwashing campaign. Maybe Norway never cared about the Amazon in the...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | May 24, 2025 | Uncategorized
Having worked on biosemiotics for 10 years since earning my PhD in environmental philosophy on interspecies communication and ethics, I’ve found increasingly fascinating the various traps of thinking and premature conclusions awaiting the intrepid...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Apr 3, 2025 | Uncategorized
De Salon Ruigoord is one of my favorite spaces in the Netherlands. If you haven’t been there yet, then you haven’t yet experienced that elegant Old World charm reminding you of the places where the Romantics became romantic enough to have their visions...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Mar 18, 2025 | Uncategorized
I’m chuffed to be able to share with you an event over 20 years in the making. You see, I don’t post about it here on my website, where Very Serious Adult types lurk, but I’ve been going to Burning Man, playing music in live bands, singing around the...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Jan 31, 2025 | Uncategorized
Ours is a crisis of misreading the signs. As are the origins of all crises. Humans are the only species of being able to trick ourselves to such a collective, thorough degree that we are able to ignore all the signs, again and again. No other species would survive...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Sep 6, 2024 | Uncategorized
‘The data from NUI is critical to solving the mystery of how sediment banks may slow glacier break-up. “Model projections for the future of Greenland are just all over the place,” says Catania.’ Here’s another example of the “if we only get the...
