Looking back over my previous three posts, it is hard to find a definite pattern. Each post is intricately weaved with the complicated ideas in the books we read and the philosophies from class. I jump from institutional to individual action, systems that harm and solve our environments, challenging classic environmental thought, and much more. […]
Up for the Challenge
In Chapter One of Who Rules the Earth: How Social Rules Shape Our Planet and Our Lives written by Paul Steinberg, he lays out his intention for the book by stating, “This book is an attempt to distill insights from that research and to share the findings with those who need them most: intelligent reader […]
Rooted Connections
The connections I have identified are rooted in bigger themes of the sections we have had in ENVS 160. The first connection is founded on the basis that Austerity Ecology & the Collapse-Porn Addicts by Leigh Phillips (2015) and Making the Modern World by Vaclav Smil (2014) look at the systems in place that harm […]
Irritation, well placed? Nope.
I transferred from Middlebury College where I was also interested in pursuing environmental studies. I came this year, irritated that Lewis and Clark did not accept my intro environmental studies class I took two years prior. My irritation grew as the works I was reading in this course felt broad, loose and far reaching. I, […]