by Barbara Lepani | Jul 9, 2019 | Our Collective, Quote of the Week
Chosen by Lorraine Shannon, Coordinator of the Wild Mountain Collective’s Exploring Ideas occasional seminar series From: Graham Harvey, Animism: Respecting the Living World. Wakefield Press, South Australia, 2005. Graham Harvey argues in this book that a new...
by Barbara Lepani | Jun 23, 2019 | Our Collective, Quote of the Week
LORRAINE SHANNON: From: Deborah Bird Rose, Wild Dog Dreaming: Love and Extinction. University of Virginia Press, 2011. It seems pertinent at the moment, following Deborah Bird Rose’s death in December 2018 to focus on some of her writings that examine both the...
by Barbara Lepani | Jun 5, 2019 | Our Collective, Quote of the Week
Deborah Bird Rose, “Anthropocene Noir” Paper presented at People and the Planet 2013 Conference, ‘Transforming the Future”, RMIT 2013Quote 1 Anthropocene—the Age of Man—this era in which human action has become a planetary force. We know the climate...
by Barbara Lepani | Jun 5, 2019 | Our Collective, Quote of the Week
Alison Hope Alkon, Black, White and Green: Farmers Markets, Race and the Green Economy. University of Georgia Press. This book is among many now appearing on how to move to a green economy. The examples are based in the United States but are still pertinent to the...
by Barbara Lepani | Apr 23, 2019 | Our Collective, Quote of the Week
E.F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered, Vintage Classics, 2011. (First published, 1973). In his Introduction to this reprint of Small is Beautiful, Jonathan Porritt writes, “Fritz Schumacher (1911-1977) was a great synthesizer,...
by Barbara Lepani | Mar 14, 2019 | Our Collective, Quote of the Week
Paddy Woodworth, Our Once and Future Planet, University of Chicago Press, 2013.Remember: “… first that the natural world is considerably more resilient than I had thought, and that damaged and degraded ecosystems can rebuild a great deal of their complex webs of...
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