by Barbara Lepani | Jan 22, 2020 | Commentary, Our Collective
THE DARK MOUNTAIN PROJECT In this article, published by the Dark Mountain Project (https://dark-mountain.net/the-way-back-to-the-wilderness-within/) Max St John talks about his journey to find his own sense of the wilderness within, through the Daoist body practice of...
by Barbara Lepani | Sep 25, 2019 | Commentary, Our Collective
I feel as if this book, Sand Talk, by Tyson Yunkaporta is one I have been waiting for all my life—a book that probes into a whole different way of thinking and making sense of the world, without falling into the inevitable trap of having to talk about it in the...
by Barbara Lepani | Sep 9, 2019 | Commentary, Our Collective
Amitav Gosh was born in Calcutta in 1956 and was educated in India, before moving to the United States where he has held professorships at Queens College, City University of New York and Harvard University. He has published many works of fiction, starting with his...
by Barbara Lepani | Aug 17, 2019 | Commentary, Our Collective
The Economic Argument The value of the agricultural sector in 2017-2018 in Australia was $59 billion. It is expected to reach $60 billion in 2020, with the National Farmers Federation aiming for a $100 billion industry by 2030—based on the assumptions of modern...
by Barbara Lepani | Aug 10, 2019 | Commentary, Our Collective
LIBERAL ARTS EDUCATION AND CLIMATE CHANGE Christopher Walker has developed a course in climate fiction at Colby College, a private liberal arts college founded in 1831. Colby is part of the US tradition of liberal arts education that has survived the trend for...
by Barbara Lepani | Aug 2, 2019 | Commentary, Our Collective
This blog post is reproduced from the Deep Adaptation newsletter Preamble: In June 2019 I met with Dr Wolfgang Knorr, a climate scientist with Lund University. With his dozens of peer reviewed climate papers generating thousands of citations, it is clear he has spent...
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