by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Jan 7, 2020 | beyond idealism, beyond liberalism, Biophilia, Communication, conservation, Decolonization, Environmental Political Theory, Fake Freedoms, Harm Reduction, Naturverlassenheit, Normal is Over, permaculture, silence, Systems thinking
As an academic, I crave silence. In fact, without silence, I can’t think. And since thinking is my job, in our current media blitz steal-your-attention economy, I’m often miserable. When I don’t wish to work from home or my office, or am on the road,...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Dec 15, 2019 | beyond idealism, beyond liberalism, Biophilia, Climate Change, Communication, Dante Alighieri — 'The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.', death, Decolonization, deep ecology, Discursive Gap, duh, Energy, Environmental Justice, Environmental Political Theory, Fake Freedoms, folly, Greenwashing, Industrial Epidemics, Normal is Over, Oil Barons, parasitism, Perverse Incentives, pollution, Priorities, Syndemics, Systems thinking
I recently read – from afar – the sorry state of the UNFCCC #COP25 in Madrid. According to 350.org, instead of barring fossil fuel companies from engineering the COP, the security guards at the UNFCCC forcibly removed hundred of activists and scientists...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Sep 6, 2019 | beyond idealism, Discursive Gap, e-waste, Extended Producer Responsibility, Greenwashing, Industrial Epidemics, normalization, pollution, Publications, Side-effects, Systems thinking, Tobacco Industry
In the flurry of the semester starting, I’ve been remiss in updating this blog with a couple important articles that have come out in the press discussing the environmental harms of electronic cigarette (ecig) electronic waste (ewaste). Both The Guardian and...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Aug 26, 2019 | agroecology, animals, Bad Advertising, beyond idealism, beyond liberalism, Biomimicry, Biophilia, Bureaucratic quixotic, Climate Change, Communication, Conferences, conservation, Decolonization, Discursive Gap, duh, eating animals, Energy, Environmental Justice, exploitation, Extended Producer Responsibility, folly, Greenwashing, Harm Reduction, Industrial Epidemics, meat, Normal is Over, Perverse Incentives, pollution, Syndemics, Systems thinking, Unpleasant Design
The ISEE, or the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology, is an organization that one would expect to walk its talk. After all, it has been around for 31 years with its annual conferences, and is one of the most sophisticated and cutting edge of the...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Jan 20, 2019 | beyond idealism, Climate Change, conservation, deus ex machina, Discursive Gap, Energy, Environmental Justice, exploitation, Extended Producer Responsibility, folly, Greenwashing, Industrial Epidemics, Normal is Over, normalization, object-oriented-ontology, Perverse Incentives, pollution, Priorities, Side-effects, Systems thinking, the real, Wolves in sheep's clothing
I was perusing Kickstarter when I happened upon a solution to a problem that I didn’t know was that big of a deal: spices going bad. As it turns out, it’s not that big of a deal, it’s what could easily be classified as a “first world...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Jan 20, 2019 | beyond idealism, beyond liberalism, Bureaucratic quixotic, Climate Change, Communication, cruelty, death, Decolonization, Discursive Gap, exploitation, folly, Industrial Epidemics, normalization, Perverse Incentives, Priorities, the real, Wolves in sheep's clothing
There is an epidemic of thoughts and prayers in America. It seems the more politicians think and pray, the more school shootings happen, the more places of worship get gunned and burned down, and the more people die. Maybe to reverse this trend, politicians need to...
