- Audio of a talk “Vancouver: The Best Place on Earth” by Matt Hern, an associate of the ISE, with Charles Demers. A summary: Hern and Demers, both accomplished speakers, have arranged their criticisms and congratulations for Vancouver into an entertaining and engaging presentation that will challenge residents, activists, students, planners, wonks, urbanists and anyone interested in Vancouver’s future.
- A reminder that Matt will be debating John Zerzan on February 5 (Lekwungen Territories/Victoria, B.C) with the topic listed as “Primitivism or Urbanism: Possibilities for a Sustainable Future.”
- ISE Board member Grace Gershuny will be speaking on a panel “Policies & Technologies in Organic Textiles” at the Natural Products Expo West in Anaheim, California on March 10.
- Audio of some of the sessions from the recent North American Anarchist Studies conference in Toronto has been made available, including the “Greening Anarchy” panel that included ISE Board member Karl Hardy. Read a report-back by one of the conference organizers.
- Randall Amster, friend and ally of the ISE and current Chair of the Master of Arts Program at Prescott College, has published a new blog Apocalypse Not Now: In Search of a New Beginning … before the End, summarized as follows: The takeaway is essentially that we live in a time that captures “the very essence of the notion of apocalypse, comprising in equal parts the ‘final battle’ of Armageddon and a time for ‘lifting the veil’ on a new vision undistorted by collective delusion. The steady convergence of fiction and reality points the way toward a potentially positive eschatology in which we get to help write the next chapter, rather than merely consuming its leading edge.”
