Report: 2nd International Meeting on Social Ecology, Bilbao (Oct. 2017)
The meeting aimed to open up a space for debate among political and social critics, to give visibility to local struggles and alternative forms of political organization, and to make links between all these currents via the frameworks of social ecology and libertarian municipalism.
New review of “Ecology or Catastrophe”
Published in Anarchist Studies 25:1, pp.103-105. By Eleanor Finley, University of Massachusetts Amherst, PhD student & ISE Board member, and Dr. Federico Venturini, Independent Researcher and Activist, Transnational Institute for Social Ecology A review of Janet Biehl, Ecology or Catastrophe: The Life of Murray Bookchin, Oxford University Press, 2015 In recent years, there has been […]
Enroll now for fall online seminar – Mondays Oct. 30-Dec. 18
Please stay tuned for several new courses in the works for 2018, along with our next in-person intensive seminar.
2nd International Meeting on Social Ecology: Bilbao, Spain – October 27-29
Second International Meeting on Social Ecology: Bilbao, Spain – October 27-29.
Teaming with Black activists and microbes for the soul of organic
by Grace Gershuny, [Originally posted at http://www.organic-revolutionary.com/single-post/2017/05/29/Teaming-with-Black-activists-and-microbes-for-the-soul-of-organic] I tend to be a big picture thinker, and have always just assumed that the connections between organic agriculture and social justice were self-evident. Yet clearly many others don’t see this connection, and believe that with the advent of a federally mandated organic certification and marketing program, organic […]
System Change or Extinction? Thoughts on “The Uninhabitable Earth”
“There are thus two critiques of “The Uninhabitable Earth.” First, Wallace-Wells fails to account for all the positive environmental actions we’re going to take. But he also ignores the negative political actions that are bound to occur. But something is missing here. These two critiques don’t go well together. It just doesn’t make sense that we could make major reductions in emissions with the same old “vicious right-wing minority” in power. If they’re still in charge and pushing wars, we’re screwed. It seems obvious, but apparently bears repeating: environmental change requires political change. Capitalism fuels environmental devastation. We will only halt environmental devastation if we dismantle capitalism.”
From our recent intensive in San Francisco
We had a truly exceptional time at our recent social ecology seminar in San Francisco. Thanks to Michelle Glowa and everyone at the California Institute for Integral Studies who made it possible, and to our incredible class of participants from all across North America and around the world! You can view the full schedule, and […]
ISE 2017 Annual Gathering: August 18-20 – Marshfield, VT
In 2017 we had our best-attended and most wide-ranging gathering to date. An account of our latest summer gathering will be posted soon.
Kurds and supporters gather in Hamburg
Internationalizing Democratic Modernity : A report from Challenging Capitalist Modernity III by Eleanor Finley From April 15 – 17, 2017 in Hamburg, Germany the Kurdish freedom movement held its third instantiation of Challenging Capitalist Modernity, the biennial conference dedicated to ‘democratic modernity’ and the ideas developed by imprisoned Kurdish political leader Abdullah Ocalan. On the […]
Spring Social Ecology online seminar May 8-June 26!
Stay tuned for future versions of our online social ecology course, plus several new courses in the works for the 2017-18 academic year!
