I’ve grown impatient with the kind of debate we used to have about whether the optimists are right or the pessimists are right. Neither are right. There is too much bad news to justify complacency. There is too much good news to justify despair. ~ Donella Meadows, author of The Limits to Growth (1972) & […]
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Beyond Suffering
Environmentalism and the Mind by Jeff Warren in Psychology Tomorrow (March 2013) is a must read for anyone who feels their professional or personal lives are being overtaken by problems beyond their control. And isn’t this everyone today? Whether global issues like climate change and poverty, national issues like violence and the economy, or personal issues like our […]
It Makes All the Difference
It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences. ~Audre Lorde
Contemplating terror and a way forward…..
We live in terror because persuasion is no longer possible; because man has been wholly submerged in History; because he can no longer tap that part of his nature, as real as the historical part, which he recaptures in contemplating the beauty of nature and of human faces; because we live in a world of […]
Dr. Simona Perry’s Work on Energy Development and Cultural Change
From 2009-2011 Dr. Simona L. Perry began investigating the social, cultural, and environmental consequences of the rapid development of Marcellus Shale gas resources in rural communities in northeastern Pennsylvania. Today the general public, and energy companies, tend to refer to this activity with one word: “fracking,” short-hand for hydraulic fracturing, the technological process used to […]
