Organizing against zoonotic events
Research Blog | May 11, 2021
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/preventing-the-next-zoonotic-pandemic/ *pandemics can also result from improper husbandry, when domestic livestock are not separated from wild animals, as well as from veterinary failures*absence of adequate regulations on wildlife trafficking*habitat destruction, loss, fragmentation from logging, mining, and agriculture*demand for more global legislation and enforcement, that reimagines livestock production and its locations in conjunction with conservation measures….
Manifesto examples
Research Blog | March 29, 2021
A manifesto is a public declaration of the purpose, principles, or plan of action of a group or individual. …derived from the Italian word manifesto, itself derived from the Latin manifestum, meaning clear or conspicuous. Its first recorded use in English is from 1620, in Nathaniel Brent‘s translation of Paolo Sarpi‘s History of the Council of Trent: “To this citation he made answer…
The Language of Union Demands
Research Blog | March 29, 2021
I am looking for sample language to compose #MSU demands. What is the formal rhetorical style? What is the format? Is it like this? Unions for All means doing four things: Bring employers, workers and government together at industry-wide bargaining tables to negotiate wages, benefits, and working conditions. Establish the National Labor Relations Act as the…
Planthroposcene
Research Blog | March 28, 2021
Brian Michael Murphy shared this article by Natasha Myers, How to grow liveable worlds: Ten (not-so-easy) steps for life in the Planthroposcene, and I’ve been thinking about how to work with it in unexpected ways (expected ways might include the usual, impossible-to-achieve and privileged individual or atomized family going off grid, a jaunt with ayahuasca…
Bibliography on Feminism / Environment / Labor
Research Blog | February 25, 2021
Future bibliography: A politic that is not human-centric?Facing Gaia, Bruno Latour1st, 7th, 8th lectures Readings at intersection of feminism, multispecies, labor, care: Ecofeminism: an overview, science directmary mellor, ariel salleh, giovannah di chiro, vandana shiva, Alyssa Battistoni:– Material World (on Latour) Rights and personhood Systems-centric early ecofeminism Technoecologies of Borders: Thinking with Borders as Multispecies Matters of…
just transition updates
Research Blog | February 10, 2021
what’s the latest on just transition? Salient notes from this Feb 2021 article, regarding California’s plan to phase out oil production: 80 organizations sent a letter today to the EPA, NRDC, Office of Planning and Research, Labor and Workforce development) asking them to conduct a robust public process for each report, and produce documents that genuinely incorporate…
The Work of Nature
Research Blog | November 30, 2020
Responses to “Bringing in the Work of Nature: From Natural Capital to Hybrid Labor” Alyssa Battistoni In her abstract, Battistoni describes moving away from what is known as natural capital (ecosystem services) to a feminist approach to what she calls “hybrid labor”, through which she articulates …an expanded idea of hybrid labor that understands the…
BlueGreen Alliance: organizing jobs + environment
Research Blog | November 23, 2020
The BlueGreen Alliance (BGA) conjoins labor unions and environmental groups. Founded in 2006 by the United Steelworkers labor union and the Sierra Club. Influence Watch states that the alliance is made up of nine labor unions and five environmentalist groups. Notable member organizations include the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the United Association of Plumbers…
Green New Deal vs Carbon Tax research
Research Blog | November 16, 2020
Empire, Amitav Ghosh
Research Blog | November 8, 2020
In his essay Empire for the extensive website Feral Atlas, Ghosh opens with a statement that in Asia “the themes of Empire and power, rivalry and violence, are, implicitly or explicitly, central to the discussion of climate change.” This statement, he goes on to describe, is in contrast to the ways climate change principally operates…
Sanctuary (in) Fugitivity
Research Blog | November 8, 2020
Bayo Akomolafe‘s statement goes both ways. I have been reading twitter responses to DJT, in response to his claims that he has won the election; the number of good-seeming people who pray for him, find him to be a great leader who is watching over them is astounding. Instead of deriding them as idiotic (they’re…
Market-Based Solutions, Nordhaus, Just Transition
Research Blog | November 1, 2020
Acid rain is still a major problem in China, India. Does acid rain have global effects? Now that regulations have eased on the US, is acid rain on the rise? Is there any discussion of global governance around climate change and environmental degradation, pollution? Do conventions have adequate (or any) effect? What is the incentive…
Out of Time
Research Blog | October 20, 2020
Astra Taylor’s magnificent 2019 text, Out of Time, for Laphams’ climate issue talks about all the temporalities the earth operates on, and how humans manage to or willfully experience so few. We are surrounded by chemical, geophysical, and biological clocks, yet Capitalism’s clock ticks loudest in our ear I’d add: the time of a coal…
Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS)
Research Blog | October 14, 2020
EPA Announced Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) for Power Plants December 21, 2011: EPA press release announced standards to limit mercury, acid gases and other toxic pollution from power plants.Until now there have been no federal standards that require power plants to limit their emissions of toxic air pollutants like mercury, arsenic and metals…
Metabolic Selves
Research Blog | October 14, 2020
A new video, produced by the RCA architecture group called Metabolic Selves, in conjunction with the Serpentine Gallery in London, offers the view that we should not look at toxins and pollutants as external entities, as things/effects/assemblages outside of ourselves. Our insides and outsides are subject to the same “chemical influxes that we have exerted…
Extraction
Research Blog | October 9, 2020
Responses to John Hultgren’s essay “Those Who Bring From the Earth: Anti-Environmentalism and the Trope of the White Male Worker” (2018) We are the party of America’s growers, producers, farmers, ranchers, foresters, miners, commercial fishermen, and all those who bring from the earth the crops, minerals, energy, and the bounties of our seas that are the…
Petro-Masculinity
Research Blog | October 5, 2020
There has been a plethora of studies, scholarly research articles and popular essays connecting masculinity, homophobia, and an aversion to environmental concerns, which emotionally skew as feminine (sissy, frankly). I would argue that women who identify as living contentedly inside a patriarchal societal structure are also party to this attitude. Is it the same group…
Depressing concrete poetry
Research Blog | October 4, 2020
I love glossaries like this, as formal things. In this case (from the BCA document linked above), a powerful anthropocene poem (SISNOSE!)–
Cost benefit analysis
Research Blog | October 1, 2020
Cost Benefit Analysis Federal Regulation: Cost-benefit analysis (CBA) is a tool used by regulatory decision makers to identify the costs and benefits, in financial terms, of a regulation to society as a whole. Persons preparing a CBA attempt to assign a monetary value (also know as monetizing) to all the predicted costs and benefits of a regulation. Because this is such a long post, and was a process…
No Mans Land
Research Blog | October 1, 2020
David Byars’ 2018 documentary No Mans Land is an account of occupation of Oregon’s Malheur Wildlife Refuge in 2016. It is the story of those on the inside of this movement, attempting to uncover what draws Americans — the ideologues, the disenfranchised, and the dangerously quixotic — to the edge of revolution. Coarse observations: –…