by Barbara Lepani | Jun 25, 2019 | Our Collective
The poet/gardener Alice Oswald writes: “I don’t know anything lovelier than those free shocks of sound happening against the backsound of your heart … spadescrapes, birdsong, gravel, rain on polythene, macks moving, … seeds kept in paper, potatoes coming out of boxes,...
by Barbara Lepani | Jun 23, 2019 | Our Collective
LORRAINE SHANNON: From: Deborah Bird Rose, Wild Dog Dreaming: Love and Extinction. University of Virginia Press, 2011. It seems pertinent at the moment, following Deborah Bird Rose’s death in December 2018 to focus on some of her writings that examine both the...
by Barbara Lepani | Jun 14, 2019 | Commentary, Our Collective
Samuel Alexander: Any of these three options outlined in this book will involve a transformation of such extreme magnitude that what emerges will no longer in any meaningful sense be this civilisation: the change will be the kind of extreme conceptual and existential...
by Barbara Lepani | Jun 5, 2019 | Our Collective
Deborah Bird Rose, “Anthropocene Noir” Paper presented at People and the Planet 2013 Conference, ‘Transforming the Future”, RMIT 2013Quote 1 Anthropocene—the Age of Man—this era in which human action has become a planetary force. We know the climate...
by Barbara Lepani | Jun 5, 2019 | Our Collective
Alison Hope Alkon, Black, White and Green: Farmers Markets, Race and the Green Economy. University of Georgia Press. This book is among many now appearing on how to move to a green economy. The examples are based in the United States but are still pertinent to the...
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