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“Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home”
CITATION: Francis, Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home [Encyclical], May 24, 2015. ON-LINE AVAILABILITY: Vatican website:...
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Mourning the Dodo: On Significant Otherness in the Anthropocene — Part 2
Pictured here is a “grolar,” one of the many arctic hybrids that are part of the “sexual revolution” going on in the Arctic due to climate change.In my post last week I wrote about the Mass Extinction...
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Refusing the Anthropocene
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about refusal and resistance. What is the difference between them? And what implications does this distinction have for individual and collective action? In part, my...
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Reviving Municipal Housekeeping
This is the third in Dr. Rosenthal’s three-part series on “Cities and Our Future: Governance in the Anthropocene.” Here are links to the first, and second posts. She will present her ideas at a panel...
View ArticleVideo of “Cities and Our Future” panel discussion
Earlier this spring, Cindy Simon Rosenthal offered a series of three posts on the topic of “Cities and Our Future: Governance in the Anthropocene.” On March 6, 2018 (rescheduled due to an ice storm),...
View ArticleVideo of “Coupled Urban Metabolism” panel discussion
On April 19, 2018, Stephanie Pincetl, of the California Center for Sustainable Communities at UCLA, presented her ideas on coupled urban metabolism at a panel discussion on the OU campus. The event...
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Niche Destruction: The (civic) republican niche (Part 2)
[Part 1 of this post appears here.] A desolate, uncultivated countryside; a burning village; ruined houses; marauding soldiers—these are the first things visitors to the council chambers in 14th...
View ArticleCandis Callison on the Crisis of Climate Change
Last week’s Dream Course talk came from Candis Callison of the University of British Columbia, an expert on Science and Technology Studies, Indigenous Studies, and journalism. She argued that today’s...
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How do you solve a problem like the Salton Sea?
[We welcome Traci Brynne Voyles to the blog, to kick off a series this spring on Environmental Justice and Environmental Health. The video of her talk in the associated speaker series is available...
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Water for All: Community, Property, and Revolution in Modern Bolivia
Banner reading “¡El agua es nuestra, carajo!” (“The water is ours, damn it!”) hangs from the balcony of the Central Obrera Departamental building in Cochabamba’s 14 de Septiembre Plaza during the...
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