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Our Place 9-10 7 11
By Kurt Heidinger on Jul 25, 2011 in Uncategorized
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Northampton Kim Chi
Gardeners & CSA-ers are beginning to cower beneath the tidalwave of harvest-abundance (yay!), and one way of preserving that abundance is via lactose acidophilus fermentation. (If you want to learn how to pickle, you’re invited to Return of Picklefest at the Westhampton Public Library, next Monday 8/1 from 7-8:30 pm. We’ll sample this season’s pickles, [...]
what field environmental philosophy looks like
By Kurt Heidinger on Jul 22, 2011 in Director's Notes, beauty, citizenship, deep biotic immersion, ecology, economy, sustainability, technological determinism, time
Random glimpses of our Tuesday’s walkings— We begin the day with Northampton DPW’s David Veleta, who shows us where (y)our garbage goes, until about Nov. when it gets shipped elsewhere @ a significantly higher cost. Standing on over 40 years of waste, Southampton’s Mt. Pomeroy in the distance: Then, it’s time for deep biotic immersion—look [...]
Say Hi to Erin Moore, Our Place intern!
By Kurt Heidinger on Jul 19, 2011 in Director's Notes
We are honored to have Erin Moore walking with us this season, as she learns the ways (pedagogical & terrestrial) of field environmental philosophy. She is training with the prospect of leading teens through lit and the land in 2012! Erin, in her own words: I am a mom, nature girl, reader, literature teacher at [...]
How neoliberalism destroys our oikos, both of ‘em
By Kurt Heidinger on Jul 17, 2011 in Director's Notes, citizenship, consumerism, ecology, economy, sustainability, technological determinism
Oikos, the Greek word for home, is the root of our words ecology and economy. ecology (n.) 1873, “branch of science dealing with the relationship of living things to their environments, coined by German zoologist Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) as Okologie, from Gk. oikos “house, dwelling place, habitation” (see villa) + -logia “study of” (see -logy). [...]
ecology and economy have “oikos” in common
By Kurt Heidinger on Jul 10, 2011 in Director's Notes, citizenship, consumerism, ecology, economy, evolution, sustainability, technological determinism, time
We have been raised in culture that pits economy against ecology; and, that’s exactly why we are experiencing our rapid decline as a culture. The classic refrain of “jobs vs. the environment” echoes in the halls of government, muddling the thoughts of those charged with ensuring the perpetuation of our “highest standard of living in [...]
how to learn about the river
First, find a beaver-gnawed walking stick and, second, test the river’s slippery subsurface cobblestone street: Then, step into the flow and feel the river’s imperturbable strength; let your muscles—not your thoughts—adapt to the insistence; laugh as you realize your body is made for this: When you have the feel of riverwalking that comes w/relaxing into [...]
