Podcast: Play in new window | Download (124.0MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | RSS | More Welcome to Biocitizen Banter, a podcast dedicated to environmental philosophy featuring lively discussions between people active in the effort to bring biotic health to our communities and commonwealth. In this episode Executive Director Kurt Heidinger discusses the meanings...Continue Reading
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (64.3MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | RSS | More Welcome to Biocitizen Banter, a podcast dedicated to environmental philosophy featuring lively discussions between people active in the effort to bring biotic health to our communities and commonwealth. In this episode Program Director of Biocitizen LA, Benny...Continue Reading
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (92.8MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | RSS | MoreWelcome to Biocitizen Banter, a podcast dedicated to environmental philosophy featuring lively discussions between people active in the effort to bring biotic health to our communities and commonwealth. In this episode, The Biopolitics of COVID-19, Kurt Heidinger interviews...Continue Reading
Bear Pool is a place beloved. It is not only beautiful but is home to a variety of endangered and threatened species. It is owned by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, which is to say by you. What do you think about this? For many years, Biocitizen students have learned about its incredible vitality, and studied...Continue Reading
Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts. —Salmon Rushdie Dear Parents, Guardians, Students, Staff, Friends—Community, All of us here at Biocitizen hope you...Continue Reading
Kurt here. For the past few days I’ve had the pleasure and privilege of staying at the home where Aldo Leopold was born, raised and lived until he was 17. This sounds sort of unremarkable until you consider two things: first, that Leopold grew up to be a field environmental philosopher of unparalleled, and continuing,...Continue Reading
Internship Position: Photo/Videographers for Our Place Summerschool in LA, NYC and Westhampton, MA Status: Two 9-3, M-F weeks in the field with classes, plus editing and social media posting time. School runs from mid-June to end of August. Time Frame: Review begins now, position open until filled > Biocitizen Inc. is a nonprofit educational institution...Continue Reading
Job Opening: Our Place Summer School Ass’t Director, New York City Status: 40 (full-time) hours a week (June 29-July 3, July 6-10, July 13-17, July 20-24, July 27-31, August 24-28, 2020); training begins January 2020 Time Frame: Review begins now, position open until filled. Biocitizen Inc. is a nonprofit educational institution that specializes in Field...Continue Reading
Job Opening: Our Place Summer School Director, New York City Status: 40 (full-time) hours a week (June 29-July 3, July 6-10, July 13-17, July 20-24, July 27-31, August 24-28, 2020); training begins January, 2020 Time Frame: Review begins now, position open until filled. Biocitizen Inc. is a nonprofit educational institution that specializes in Field Environmental...Continue Reading
Bio Over the past few weeks, Ryan has joined the Biocitizen NY team as a volunteer for the Our Place Summerschool. He is currently entering his senior year of high school at the University School in Cleveland, Ohio and, this summer, he took it upon himself to travel across the country, rent an apartment, and...Continue Reading
WHAT IS BIOCITIZEN? The word “biocitizen” is a contraction of “biotic citizen,” a term and idea conceived by Aldo Leopold (1887–1948) who is widely celebrated for conceiving the “land ethic.” A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise. A […]
Charlie is a recent graduate from Wesleyan University who is just beginning to get his footing in the big wide world and figure out where he’s going. Although he majored in music, his studies always seemed to circle around environmentalism and the more-than-human world, a cross pollination which began the summer after his freshman year […]
Day 1 – CITs in MA vs LA This is the first summer of Biocitizen LA’s CIT program and I am so excited to have the opportunity to take the […] The post Adia’s Perspective 2019 – What it means to be a Biocitizen in LA appeared first on Biocitizen Inc., Los Angeles, CA.
Adia’s Perspective 2019 – MA to LA! Adia Bennett is joining us in Los Angeles again this summer for Our Place Summer School – and we are so grateful to […] The post Adia’s Perspective 2019 – What is a CIT? Adia Bennett appeared first on Biocitizen Inc., Los Angeles, CA.
Biocitizen is so pleased to welcome Charlie Schine as a lead teacher! Charlie is a Brooklyn native and presently teaches Field Environmental Philosophy at our Western Massachusetts school. He can’t wait to walk with students through the places loves the most. Personal Statement Hi! I’m a recent graduate from Wesleyan University and although I majored […]
Job Opening: Our Place Summer School Director, New York City Status: 40 (full-time) hours a week (June 29-July 3, July 6-10, July 13-17, July 20-24, July 27-31, August 24-28, 2020); training begins January 2020 Time Frame: Review begins now, position open until filled. Biocitizen Inc. is a nonprofit educational institution that specializes in Field Environmental […]
En la sabiduría antigua, tanto en sociedades orientales, occidentales e indígenas, existe como concepción compartida la importancia del vivir el día a día, y de como esta práctica da forma […]
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