Social Ecology and Participatory Economics (2)
Hi Michael, Thanks for your two thorough responses. I’m going to try to reply to each of them individually, despite the thematic overlap, though I’m sure I’ll miss some important issues. You asked: “Are you saying there is no place in politics for representatives deliberating and voting, by some algorithm, even with recall, challenges, and […]
Social Ecology and Participatory Economics (3)
Hi again Michael, I think we’re getting into more detail in this thread, so I’ll try to use this rejoinder as an opportunity to explore some of the themes I’ve neglected so far and go a little deeper into those we’ve already broached. You asked: “why shouldn’t decisions about production, allocation, and consumption be carried […]
Social Ecology and Participatory Economics (4)
Hi Michael, I’m not sure what to make of your complaint that I have skipped some central matters. I can’t possibly reply to every point in your posts, of course, but I thought I had covered the main ones. In several cases you say I’ve ignored issues that I have, in fact, discussed at length […]
Agriculture and Resistance
Sustainable Agriculture and Resistance: Transforming Food Production in Cuba, Edited by Fernando Funes, Luis Garcia, Martin Bourque, Nilda Perez, and Peter Rosset (Oakland, Calif.: Food First Books, 2002). Urban Wilds: Gardeners’ Stories of the Struggle for Land and Justice, Edited by Clea (Oakland, Calif.: Water/Underground Publications, 2001). Reviewed by Erin Royster This article originally appeared […]
Vermont Towns Vote Against Biotech Foods
Once again, Vermont’s local town meetings have taken an ethical stand on issues of compelling national and international significance. Vermont’s annual town meetings, held every year on the first Tuesday in March, are among the oldest surviving institutions of direct democracy in the United States. Dating to well before the American Revolution, these annual face-to-face […]
Harbinger Vol. 2 No. 1 — Editorial
By Daniel Chodorkoff
Welcome to the first edition of our second volume of Harbinger, A Journal of Social Ecology. Harbinger is the latest in a long line of publications offered by the Institute for Social Ecology (ISE). With the second edition of Harbinger, we are resurrecting a journal that we published in the 80s. We intend to explore the theory and practice needed to help to create an ecological society, and to cultivate a generous intellectual outlook that can inform the principle of hope. . .
Harbinger Vol. 2 No. 1 — Murray Bookchin interview
By David Vanek
Murray Bookchin, born in 1921, has been involved in leftist politics for seven decades and has written almost two dozen books on a great variety of subjects, encompassing ecology, nature philosophy, history, urban studies, and the Left, particularly Marxism and anarchism. In the 1950s, with his long 1952 essay “The Problem of Chemicals in Food,” he warned against the chemicalization of agriculture and the environment, and with this and other writings, he helped lay foundations of the modern radical ecology movement. He is the cofounder of the Institute for Social Ecology, where he lectures each summer, and professor emeritus at Ramapo College of New Jersey. He is currently finishing the third volume of a trilogy, /The Third Revolution,/ which is a history of the great European and American revolutions.
Harbinger Vol. 2 No. 1 — Biotechnology: Radicalizing the Debate
by Brian Tokar
The more that officials of the U.S. government, and of global institutions such as the WTO, insist that only known, quantifiable risks are legitimate areas for public policy, the more imperative it becomes for activists and other concerned citizens to insist upon raising the larger questions: What does this new technology mean for our society, for the exercise of political and economic power and for the possibilities of actualizing a genuinely free society? How can we fully comprehend all the disturbing
social consequences of the new genetic technologies?
Harbinger Vol. 2 No. 1 — Urban Seeds
Urban Seeds: What a Cornfield in Kansas and Blvd. Renee Levesque Have in Common
By Andrea del Moral
On urban agriculture and saving seeds…
Harbinger Vol. 2 No. 1 — Hungry for Profit review
Hungry for Profit: The Agribusiness Threat to Farmers, Food, and the Environment
Edited by Fred Magdoff, John Bellamy Foster, and Frederick H. Buttel
Reviewed by Erin Royster
