Social Ecology at the annual Left Forum (NYC, June 7-9th)
For the first time in many years, the ISE is presenting a panel at the annual Left Forum, at Pace University, next to City Hall Park in New York City. Please join us! The revolutionary project of social ecology Sunday, June 9th, 12 noon, Room E307 With Brian Tokar, Dan Chodorkoff, Chaia Heller, and Eleanor […]
Mike Small: Scotland’s Local Food Revolution
ISE alum Mike Small has been working in the Fife district of Scotland to develop new models of organizing around local food. That work has now culminated in a book titled Scotland’s Local Food Revolution. Mike writes: It seems fitting in the same week that climate warming greenhouse gas reached 400 parts per million for […]
2013 Colloquium: “Social Ecology in an Era of Crisis: Renewal and Reassessment”
August 23-25, 2013 Marshfield, Vermont In the coming year the Institute for Social Ecology will celebrate 40 years as a unique educational haven for critical thought and political action directed towards creating a free and ecological society. We invite friends, colleagues, alumni, and fellow travelers to gather this August to critically reflect on the continued […]
ISE alum Robert Ogman’s “Against the Nation: Anti-National Politics in Germany”
Against the Nation: Anti-National Politics in Germany By ISE alum Robert Ogman Now available from New Compass Press and AK Press Following the German reunification process in the 1990s, a new movement appeared in Germany. This movement rejected all forms of nationalism, including the desirability and legitimacy of national communities, borders, and the existence of […]
Eric Toensmeier’s new book project
We were hesitant to post a Kickstarter link here, but glad to make an exception for Eric Toensmeier’s new, pioneering book project. The working title is “Carbon Farming: A Global Toolkit for Stabilizing the Climate with Tree Crops and Regenerative Agriculture Practices.” If you’ve ever attended a class of Eric’s at the ISE or elsewhere, […]
Just out!: Chaia Heller’s “Food, Farms, and Solidarity”
Food, Farms and Solidarity: French Farmers Challenge Industrial Agriculture and Genetically Modified Crops by Chaia Heller
New from Duke University Press.
More information, online orders, and inside search are available here.
The Confédération Paysanne, one of France’s largest farmers’ unions, has successfully fought against genetically modified organisms (GMOs), but unlike other allied movements, theirs has been led by producers rather than consumers. In Food, Farms, and Solidarity, Chaia Heller analyzes the group’s complex strategies and campaigns, including a call for a Europe-wide ban on GM crops and hormone-treated beef, and a protest staged at a McDonald’s. . .
Remembering Barry Commoner, 1917-2012
From The Nation online today, by Occidental College professor, Peter Dreier: http://www.thenation.com/article/170251/remembering-barry-commoner. At the ISE, we especially remember Barry Commoner for his pioneering advocacy for renewable energy and against nuclear power, his socially and politically conscious approach to environmental sustainability, his work against waste incineration and dioxin contamination in the late 1980s, and his return […]
New from Annie Leonard and Naomi Klein
From Story of Stuff creator Annie Leonard, we now have an accessible and visually engaging outlook on the financial crisis, deficit mania in Washington, and how to shift public funds toward a greener future. She makes a few compromises in the pursuit of mainstream appeal that may not sit so well with social ecologists — […]
Photos from Occupy Wall St. support demo Weds. 10/5
All photos are © 2011 by Eliot Tokar, whose website is http://www.tibetanmedicine.com/. Brian Tokar’s brother Eliot is interviewed about his Tibetan medicine practice at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKro_d-6nX4. More of his Wall St. photos can be seen at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuVxVDs3i68.
A Tribute to David Noble
David Noble, a pioneering historian and critic of technology and of corporate dominance over academic institutions, passed away suddenly this past week. David lectured a couple of times at the ISE, spent summers in Barnet, just around the bend from Grace Gershuny’s house, and remained a good friend of several of ours. Very sad news… […]
