Posts Tagged ‘ ecology ’

Dr Claire Colebrook interviewed by Dr. Asijit Datta – YouTube

Katerina Sakellaropoulou becomes Greece’s first female president | TheHill

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Katerina Sakellaropoulou, a high court judge and human rights activist, on Wednesday was elected Greece’s first female president by the country’s Parliament with an overwhelming majority.

The Guardian reported that the French-educated judge is known for championing civil liberties, ecological issues and minority rights.

Source: Katerina Sakellaropoulou becomes Greece’s first female president | TheHill

Australia fires: Why species might go extinct, explained by an ecologist – Vox

 

A wallaby licks its burnt paws after escaping a bushfire in New South Wales on November 12, 2019.Wolter Peeters/The Sydney Morning Herald via Getty Images

“I think this is the beginning of the end for them”: An Australian ecologist fears the worst for many species.

Source: Australia fires: Why species might go extinct, explained by an ecologist – Vox

Never Underestimate the Intelligence of Trees – Issue 77: Underworlds – Nautilus

 

Source: Never Underestimate the Intelligence of Trees – Issue 77: Underworlds  – Nautilus

Burning Down the House | by Alan Weisman | The New York Review of Books

 

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Richard Misrach: Untitled, 2007

Even McKibben struggles for an adequate vocabulary to describe the duplicity of oil companies: “There should be a word for when you commit treason against an entire planet.”

I’m not the only writer to wonder whether books are still an appropriate medium to convey the frightening speed of environmental upheaval. But the environment is infinitely intricate, and mere articles—much less daily newsfeeds or Twitter—can barely scratch the surface of environmental issues, let alone explore the extent of their consequences. Ecology, after all, is about how everything connects to everything else. Something so complex and crucial still requires books to attempt to explain it.

Source: Burning Down the House | by Alan Weisman | The New York Review of Books

Orion Magazine | Four Questions for the Author: Timothy Morton, Being Ecological

Timothy Morton is Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University. He is the author of Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence . . .

Source: Orion Magazine | Four Questions for the Author: Timothy Morton, Being Ecological

A Call to Life: Variations on a Theme of Extinction: Kathleen Dean Moore and Rachelle McCabe – YouTube

Writers Uncensored: Gary Snyder: If Trees Could Talk – YouTube

Rojava at risk « immanence

The Rojava Emergency Committee is asking that U.S. citizens urge their congressional and Senate representatives, as well as Elliot Engel, incoming Democratic chair of the Foreign Relations Committee, not to withdraw from Rojava. Please do that if you care about the largest stateless nation in the world (which happens to be building what’s probably the largest experiment in anarcha-feminist radical eco-democracy history has seen).

 

With outspread arms of thanks to dmf –

Source: Rojava at risk « immanence

Hunting for the ancient lost farms of North America | Ars Technica

Enlarge / At Ash Cave in Ohio, archaeologists discovered an enormous cache of seeds from lost crops, including domesticated native goosefoot (similar to quinoa). These seeds were so far from their wild habitats that they had clearly been domesticated.

2,000 years ago, people domesticated these plants. Now they’re wild weeds. What happened?

Source: Hunting for the ancient lost farms of North America | Ars Technica