Social Ecology and Land Stewardship Fellowship Program
[Note: this in-person program is only open to Central Vermont residents age 16 – 24] Social ecology is a unique way of understanding the relationship between our human communities and the natural world. It seeks to create a new sense of harmony between humanity and the rest of nature through its transformational politics and ecological […]
ISE’s 50th anniversary, August 2024
The ISE is approaching its 50th anniversary and we invite you to celebrate with us the August 23-25, at North Calais Memorial Hall on Number 10 Pond in Central Vermont.
Presentation by Kurdish feminist, Dilar Dirik
Dilar Dirik, a noted international voice of the Kurdish women’s movement, was a keynote speaker at the recent fifth international conference of Trise, the European social ecology organization. Brian Tokar reports.
Social Ecology Pamphlet by Emily McGuire
A lovely illustrated overview of social ecology by ISE student and designer Emily McGuire – available for download!
Harbinger Vol. 3 No. 1 — The Communalist Project
Whether the twenty-first century will be the most radical of times or the most reactionary—or will simply lapse into a gray era of dismal mediocrity—will depend overwhelmingly upon the kind of social movement and program that social radicals create out of the theoretical, organizational, and political wealth that has accumulated during the past two centuries […]
The Modern Crisis
By Murray Bookchin This article originally appeared in Green Perspectives No. 2 February 1986. In my article, “Toward a Libertarian Municipalism2,” I advanced the view that any counterculture to the prevailing culture must be developed together with counterinstitutions to the prevailing institutions—a decentralized, confederal, popular power that will acquire the control over social and political […]
