Jean Parker & Mary Carlisle

Ecofeminism: Feminist Intersections with Other Animals and the Earth 1, Adams, Carol J., Gruen, Lori - Amazon.com

A catastrophic loss in biodiversity, reckless destruction of wildland and warming temperatures have allowed disease to explode. Ignoring the connection between climate change and pandemics would be “dangerous delusion,” one scientist said.

Ecofeminism: Feminist Intersections with Other Animals and the Earth 1, Adams, Carol J., Gruen, Lori - Amazon.com

Ecofeminism: Feminist Intersections with Other Animals and the Earth 1, Adams, Carol J., Gruen, Lori - Amazon.com

In a previous post I noted that futures thinking usually tries to identify what people think will change and what they think needs to change. As lockdown constraints ease, we are seeing a lot of opinions about both. There is no shortage of shovel ready points of view and aspirations. Aspirations are good, but what we aren’t seeing so much of (at least I haven’t) is more nuanced thinking about how we get from here to there, and how different aspirations and expectations may be negotiated…

How to tell a story. Don't tell it like a narrative. Storytelling is self-organizing cauldron of three manners of storytelling. First is the official, often quite entrenched, mummified narrative. Second is the living story that people embody in their lives Now and Here. Third is the antenarrative (the bet and the transformation) that there is a pre-story or pre-narrative that is making the living stories into the narrative order, or undoing the narrative order, fragmenting and recombining…

Bridges to the future is about how change happens - RSA

Antibiotic use in agriculture is a ticking time bomb, posing looming health risks to people and the environment.

Ecofeminism: Feminist Intersections with Other Animals and the Earth 1, Adams, Carol J., Gruen, Lori - Amazon.com

Ecofeminism: Feminist Intersections with Other Animals and the Earth 1, Adams, Carol J., Gruen, Lori - Amazon.com

Ecofeminism: Feminist Intersections with Other Animals and the Earth 1, Adams, Carol J., Gruen, Lori - Amazon.com

Changes in biodiversity have the potential to either increase or reduce the incidence of infectious disease in plants and animals — including humans — because they involve interactions among species. At a minimum, this requires a host and a pathogen; often many more species are involved, including additional hosts, vectors and other organisms with which these species interact. Felicia Keesing and colleagues review the evidence that reduced biodiversity affects the transmission of infectious…

93 minutes | For most Americans, the ideal meal is fast, cheap, and tasty. Food, Inc. examines the costs of putting value and convenience over nutrition and environmental impact. Director Robert Kenner...

he true story of animals in New Zealand = Aotearoa New Zealand is often promoted as a peaceful land of blue skies, pure streams, and rich pastures — “clean and green” paradise. In reality, our society is based on the sounds, smells and blood of the slaughterhouse. Every year New Zealanders kill over a hundred …