Social Ecology talk at Yale April 14th
Murray Bookchin, Social Ecology and American Environmentalism Damian White, Associate Professor of Sociology, The Rhode Island School of Design Dept of Environmental Studies and Forestry, Yale University; April 14th, 2011 Kroon Hall, 195 Prospect St. New Haven CT 7 pm. Murray Bookchin first wrote a critique of the use of chemicals in agriculture in 1952. […]
Continuing the dialogue
Some background, to help contextualize this piece for those who might be new to this discussion. This past January, I published a short essay “Social ecology needs development, dissent, dynamism” on the Social Ecology Blog hosted on the Institute for Social Ecology’s website. My intention was not to specifically articulate my own evolving perspective but to try and […]
Social Ecologist Profile: Rafa Grinfeld of Antwerp, Belgium
[Editor’s note: We are very grateful to Rafa for his contribution to the Social Ecologist Profile series, especially considering English is not his first language.] Please introduce yourself (What kind of work you do, Where you live, etc.) I live in Belgium, that’s where I have lived almost all of my life. I have been […]
Eiglad replies to Hardy
[For background, please see the brief post “Making public a proposal for public debate” including the comments on that post. Then please see Karl Hardy’s response “Reply to Eirik Eiglad.”] Karl Hardy, I am not sure what to make of this. You have now written a reply to me as a separate article on this […]
Reply to Eirik Eiglad
For background please see the brief post “Making public a proposal for public debate” including the comments made on that post. Greetings to Eirik and my thanks for his reply. First, to clarify for accuracy, at no time have I posted on the New Compass website (http://new-compass.net — there is a typo in Eirik’s reply). […]
Making a public proposal for a public “debate”
The article “Social ecology needs development, dissent, dynamism” published January 17, 2011 has, as of this writing, received 48 comments and, according to Google Analytics, 871 page views (609 unique views). [from a comment left in response to the “Social ecology needs…” article] Marcus Melder said: I want to suggest a formal debate between a […]
Social Ecologist Profile: Grace Gershuny of Barnet, VT USA
Please introduce yourself (What kind of work you do, Where you live, etc.) I live in Barnet, VT – just south of St. Johnsbury, where I’ve lived (with a small lapse) since 1984 in a house that I built with my then husband. We ran a small market garden for 8 years, and I still […]
A New Politics
by Bob Spivey, ISE Board Member and SEEDS co-founder Recently I heard reports of Egyptians ordering pizzas for protestors in Wisconsin. Truly we are living in extraordinary times. If the resurgence of Islamic fundamentalism had posed a challenge to the rational, universalist basis of the liberal democratic project, the protests sweeping the Middle East and […]
Social Ecologist Profile: Peter Staudenmaier of Missoula, MT USA
Please introduce yourself (What kind of work you do, Where you live, etc.) I’ve been active in social ecology circles and affiliated with the ISE since the late 1980s. At the moment I live in Missoula, Montana, where I teach history at the University of Montana and spend a lot of time in the mountains. [Editor’s note: […]
Social Ecologist Profile: Mark Restall of London, England
Please introduce yourself (What kind of work you do, Where you live, etc.) Somehow – I blame the inescapable tyranny of linear time – I appear to have reached the age of 38. For the last 10 or so years I’ve lived in London. For the moment I can’t imagine living anywhere else (though I […]
