What if there is no such thing as the “environment”? What if the “environment” is a technojargonal term like “credit default swap”? And what if our decades-long focusing of ideas and discussions on this thing called the “environment” deludes us, like “credit default swaps” do? Let’s dump the word “environment,” (b/c all it means is [...]
Thank you, Daily Hampshire Gazette—& campers, & Smith College intern Victoria Dunch (who made it happen!), & Northampton DPW’s David Veleta, who taught us so much about where our waste goes in such a friendly and substantive way. Note: do you know where your garbage goes? Note 2: if garbage is something you throw away, [...]
—because we are far more than we have ever been taught (we are biocitizens); without a change in perspective, it is difficult to understand that: Mountains are great teachers.
It loosed us—this poem by Bryant . (You’ll like it!)
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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). [...]
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 [...]
