Posted in Uncategorized on June 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
As some of you may have noticed, I’ve not been posting as regularly as I usually do. Sorry! But this is mainly on account of the fact that I am now on summer break, and will remain so until the end of September.
“But doesn’t that mean you have a TON of free time on your [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on June 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Here’s another essay I had to write for a class; it was for a take-home final. I haven’t posted a lot recently because of finals week, but after this, I’ll hopefully have a lot more time to dedicate to coming up with new stuff to write about.
Also, unless anyone specifically asks, I’m not going [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on June 7, 2008 | No Comments »
This isn’t really technically related to the environment (so far as I know). But I think if you watch it, you can definitely infer some tragic, maybe ecological overtones.
The dancers and the music very much touched me. I hope you’ll watch it…the very end is so amazing. The dancers look like they’re reaching for heaven, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bush administration, business, climate change, corporate power, corporations, environment, global warming, NASA, oil, oil companies, politics on June 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Many of you already know how bad it can get out in the world of businesses and corporations: oil companies paying for junk science to try and discredit the scientific consensus behind climate change, ad campaigns launched against Al Gore, supposed “experts” who are paid by the corporations to publicly criticize climate change…scare tactics that [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged animal rights, endangered species, environment, environmentalism, fishing, hunting, law, makah, native americans, nature, NOAA, philosophy, politics, washington, whaling, wildlife on May 21, 2008 | 11 Comments »
An old friend of mine asked me to give the environmental perspective at a panel the other day about the infamous Makah whale hunt. It was a very interesting panel, and the audience wasn’t always very receptive to what I had to say. In the end, though, I think we were able to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged donald worster, dust bowl, ecology, environment, environmental history, environmental philosophy, environmentalism, great plains, history, natural disaster, united states history on May 19, 2008 | No Comments »
Here’s a little paper I wrote for my Environmental History class. The sources are probably out on the internet, and if you ever get the chance, Donald Worster’s Dust Bowl is actually a really interesting book.
Without further ado:
Closed and Open Systems: Two Arenas of Human History
The Dust Bowl was one of America’s greatest environmental catastrophes, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged birds, crows, deep ecology, environment, environmentalism, japan, pests, tokyo, urban life on May 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Ah, Japan…land of the samurai, the graceful movements of the tea ceremony, and really weird cartoons. Is it any wonder that a perfect parable of the ruined relationships caused by wasteful living would come from that fine land?
Crows are on the attack in Japan, and apparently, they’re quite the formidable opponent.
Blackouts are just one [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged aquafina, ban the bottle, bottled water, britta, coke, environment, environmentalism, pepsi, sustainability, water, water rights on May 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
If you have been reading this blog for a while, you may remember a previous post I made about a short little talk I gave at a forum on my campus. The forum was about trying to ban plastic one-use water bottles on campus, and you may be happy to know, the administration has [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged activism, arne naess, capitalism, consumerism, deep ecology, ecology, economics, environment, environmentalism, ethics, green, nature, neil evernden, philosophy on May 5, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Some of you may be familiar with the finer aspects of the philosophies of environmentalism; others, maybe not so much. If you find yourself in the latter category, this post may be helpful.
That might sound a bit arrogant, but I promise, it’s not, because I’m not going to write the main of this post. Instead, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged defenders of wildlife, earthjustice, environment, environmental law, environmentalism, farming, fish and wildlife service, hunting, idaho, montana, politics, ranching, sierra club, wolves, wyoming on April 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Another courtroom battle pitting environmentalists against some government entity is about to start.
This time, it’s our friends over at EarthJustice filing a suit on behalf of a couple of conservation organizations, including the Sierra Club and the Defenders of Wildlife (two organizations who themselves are filing suit against the Department of Homeland Security, as I [...]
