An educator’s notes from an eroding coast
In other words – let’s give every drop of our sweat and spirit into pondering and practicing – making civic and political engagement/reimagination a core value in our teachings.
Yuvan Aves
A Taste of Home: How Ethnic Grocery Stores Create Community
While the first ethnic grocery stores—food retailers catering to a migrant or diasporic culture—in the U.S. opened up during the 19th and early 20th centuries in urban minority neighborhoods in major cities, today, such grocery stores have mushroomed around the country, wherever new migrant communities have sprung up.
Lost in traffic: does your time count?
Traffic congestion studies make for quick and easy news articles, but they don’t even begin to calculate the true time lost to car culture.
Why Understanding Limits Is the Key to Humanity’s Future
Taoist sages proclaimed, “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” Don’t just respect limits; celebrate them and work in harmony with them.
Protect This Place: Oregon’s Twin Lake
No one ever imagined that the day would come in which the very existence of this important wetland would be threatened by construction of high-voltage electrical power lines. Special places require special protections, and once the threat appears, it may be too late.
Arthur Berman: “Peak Oil – The Hedonic Adjustment”
On this episode, petroleum geologist Arthur Berman returns to unpack the development and drawbacks of ‘peak oil’.
Book Review: Tracing the Relational Roots of Happiness
As the authors emphasize, people like Henry Keane who can lean on supportive connections in times of stress are much better able to cope with the numerous trials that invariably confront us all during the course of our lives. In contrast, isolation can be damaging to long-term health.
Where Indigenous feminisms and food sovereignties meet
This episode of the podcast miniseries ‘A Journey Through Feminist Agroecology’ explores the encounter between Indigenous feminisms and food sovereignty as a decolonial project of reparations and reconstruction.
Will the weather eventually provoke radical action on climate?
With two world summits on the global environment at the end of last year – COP27 and COP15 – there should have been the prospect of an immediate impact on the looming disaster of climate breakdown.
What Price “Defense”? (How about we fund climate change defense, instead?)
Overspending on the military will only dig humanity deeper into a hole that will be ever more difficult to get out of in the relatively short time available to us.
The Inverse Converses
Communication is homo sapiens’ greatest strength, yet paradoxically also its greatest weakness.
A Window into Louisiana’s Continued Embrace of the Fossil Fuel Industry
I live in South Louisiana on the front lines of the climate crisis and cover the fossil fuel industry and impacts related to the warming planet, so facing gaslighting is a regular occurrence for me.
