Population in the news – again
The specter of “overpopulation” has returned to the public airwaves following the UN’s recent announcement that the earth is now home to 7 billion people. The coverage is highly reminiscent …
OWS’ historical antecedents: 2 articles
Here are links to 2 interesting commentaries addressing historical antecedents to the Occupy Wall Street movement. In a recent column, Chris Hedges interviewed an OWS participant in New York and …
Updates and more views of Occupy Wall Street
The Occupy Wall Street campaign, now in its third week, has inspired a wide range of commentaries, as well as like-minded events all across the US. Here are two somewhat …
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Toward a “Green New Deal”?
My friend and colleague Richard Greeman, now living in France, has recently added some provocative and forward-looking comments to the ongoing discussion of whether a “Green New Deal” — centered …
Tokar book tour for “Toward Climate Justice” & “Agriculture and Food in Crisis”
ISE Director Brian Tokar is doing a book tour in support of his recent titles Toward Climate Justice: Perspectives on the Climate Crisis and Social Change (Communalism Press), and Agriculture and …
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Toward Climate Justice: Can we turn back from the abyss?
For Z Magazine, September 2009 The summer and fall of 2009 will surely be noted in the annals of environmental history. This period could be remembered as the time when …
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Toward Food Sovereignty in Vermont and Northern New England
– From C. Armiger, P. Palmiotto, J. Estes, eds., Banking on Biodiversity: The ecological and socio-economic dimensions of sustainable agriculture, Keene, NH: Antioch University Center for Tropical Ecology and Conservation …
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ECOCLUB interviews Brian Tokar
(This interview was originally posted at http://www.ecoclub.com/news/101/interview.html) ECOCLUB.com: What is Social Ecology and in what key ways does it differ from the mainstream environmentalism of the big US & International …
Social Ecology and The Greening of Our Cities
First published at Toward Freedom, Sept. 2008 Note: This article is from a presentation for Changer le Monde, Un Quartier à la Fois! (Changing the World, One Neighborhood at a …
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Toward a Movement for Peace and Climate Justice
– For In the Middle of a Whirlwind/Journal of Aesthetics & Protest, Summer 2008 (inthemiddleofawhirlwind.info) Complaining about the weather is about as American as apple pie, sitcoms and rock and …
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