Grace Gershuny on Cutting the Curd Podcast
ISE faculty member and organic farmer/writer/activist Grace Gershuny recently spoke to Cutting the Curd podcast about food, climate change, and social ecology.
New Novel by Dan Chodorkoff: Sugaring Down
Vermont author and co-founder of the Institute for Social Ecology Dan Chodorkoff has a published new novel, Sugaring Down. The book takes place in 1968 and follows the story of an idealistic anti-war activist couple from New York City who move to an abandoned hill farm in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom to start a commune and build a new society.
Book Review: Ecology Contested by Peter Staudenmaier
Review of Ecology Contested: Environmentalism between Left and Right, by Peter Staudenmaier.
Bookchin Centennial event: Vermont State Libraries
A collection of Murray Bookchin’s works has been donated to the Vermont State Libraries in honor of his centennial, along with poster displays at five selected libraries.
Beyond the Limitations of the Green New Deal: A Discussion with Monica Atkins of the CJA
Now available on the ISE’s Youtube channel, our discussion with Monica Atkins, Co-Executive Director of the Climate Justice Alliance, on the limitations of the Green New Deal and alternative community-based solutions.
Ozawa Bineshi Albert on Climate Justice post-COP26: Dec. 17, 12 pm EST
Join us for a talk by Ozawa Bineshi Albert, Co-Executive Director of the Climate Justice Alliance and founding member of the Indigenous Environmental Newwork. Bineshi and ISE racial/environmental justice coordinator Kali Akuno will discuss the recent COP26 conference, the false solutions it advanced, and what the peoples movements must do to counter the false solutions, stop the advance of climate change and regenerate our communities and ecosystems.
New report on North American municipalism
The authors argue that real democracy and communalism require deep reckoning with Eurocentric assumptions about land, citizenship, and participation.
Commune, Council, Party: Marxism and Direct Democracy
This 10-week course on Marxism and direct democracy, which ran earlier this winter, put Marxist political thought into conversation with social ecology, to wrestle with the challenging problem of the political form the class struggle should take.
A Jaywalking Manifesto
A manifesto of urban theory drawing on Bookchin, Lefebvre, and Harvey that examines jaywalking as a form of urban class warfare.
A People’s Green New Deal: Critical Interrogation of a Radical Proposal
Join us for a 3-part lecture series critically examining the Green New Deal with Max Ajl, author of A People’s Green New Deal. The series will critically interrogate the capitalist-oriented Green New Deal currently being proposed by liberal and progressive forces throughout North America and Europe.
