by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Feb 21, 2020 | agroecology, beyond idealism, beyond liberalism, Biomimicry, Climate Change, Decolonization, deep ecology, Environmental Justice, Fake Freedoms, Industrial Epidemics, Normal is Over, permaculture, Priorities, Public Health, Syndemics
I have a new blog post over at the Erasmus University Rotterdam initiative I’m a part of, the Dynamics of Inclusive Prosperity. This interdisciplinary research team from law, business, and philosophy brings together mavericks who work across disciplines, and are...
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 | Oct 25, 2017 | beyond idealism, beyond liberalism, Climate Change, Discursive Gap, Environmental Justice, Environmental Political Theory, exploitation, Industrial Epidemics, Oil Barons, parasitism, permaculture, pollution, Priorities, Systems thinking
One of the things that resonates the most about systems theory, is that it focuses on how different pieces of large puzzles interrelate and interlock. For, it is the inter aspect that gives phenomena movement, gusto, dynamism, spark. Speaking of things, essences,...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Sep 10, 2017 | agroecology, animals, Biophilia, Biosemiotics, Bureaucratic quixotic, Communication, conservation, deep ecology, Interspecies Communication, permaculture, Perverse Incentives, Plants, Priorities, Side-effects, Systems thinking
With such a provocative title as “Pet Ownership Protects Us Against Allergies,” UCSF’s Dr. Homer Boushey makes the claim that children brought up with pets inherit some of their protective microbes that mitigate against developing allergies....
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Oct 24, 2016 | agroecology, Bees, Biomimicry, Biophilia, Biosemiotics, Communication, Conferences, Discursive Gap, Interspecies Communication, Normal is Over, permaculture, Uncategorized
This is the first time since I moved back to California last November that I’ve been able to engage a world-class group of scholars and change-makers gathered together with the sole purpose of harmonizing human systems with natural ones. Last weekend at...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Apr 22, 2016 | agroecology, permaculture
This is my response to Frances Moore Lappé’s recent essay Farming for a Small Planet: Agroecology Now on the Great Transitions Network’s website. Yogi Hendlin, “Commentary on ‘Farming for a Small Planet: Agroecology Now,'” Great...