I think it’s safe to say that it’s been a long semester in Environmental Studies, filled with novel ideas and groggy, 8:00 AM reading quizzes. The material from ENVS 160 was substantial and provocative, and hopefully will manifest itself in my personal and academic life. Considering what I’ve learned about institutional change, the constructed notion […]
Certified-Ineffective: Institutional Action in Who Rules The Earth?
It’s challenging to know which direction to pursue after ENVS 160, especially after reading up on multifarious environmental perspectives. In his book Who Rules The Earth?, Paul Steinberg addresses the institutional approach to environmental problems (Steinberg 2015). In the opening of the book, Steinberg addresses individualistic approaches to environmentalism, most prevalent in opening his book […]
Connections between Critiques: Threads of Environmental Thought
As I consider the readings from the this semester, I think of the word critique as it applies to the use of a term, rhetoric, or prescription in environmental scholarship. Though from different time periods or political leanings, it seems as though there is uniformity in what writers are asking their audience to pay attention […]
ENVS 160: Novel Ideas and More Questions
I enrolled in ENVS 160 because I expected to create interdisciplinary concept maps, reinforce my vegetarianism, and learn some talking points to convince climate deniers that they’re misinformed about global warming. Much of this interest came from my University of Hawaii Science of Sustainability course I took last spring. On my first day in […]
Postnaturalism: Throw Purity in the Bourgeois Recycling Bin
By Ada Barbee, Allie Osgood, and Hannah Machiorlete POSTNATURALISM Post-naturalism is the concept that humans alter the evolutionary and ecological trajectory of biotic and abiotic processes of the planet. It’s a term used to critique the notion of pure nature separate from the artificial, human world. The main assertion is that humans alter their natural […]