The Trumpeter - Journal of Ecosophy (Athabasca University)
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Cedar Hill: On Stories, History, and Walking the South Trail around Cedar Hill Golf Course in Victoria, B.C.
Get PDFThis short narrative was inspired by walks taken around the Cedar Hill golf course near my home in Victoria, British Columbia, in the fall. It reflects upon balance, history, stories and sense of place
Being Prey: Dismantling the Emplacement/Displacement Dualism
Get PDFEmplacement and displacement can be presented as experiences that lie in direct opposition to each other. To experience emplacement is to be immersed within the rich nuances of a place; it is to embody some kind of authentic existence that sees the self and the place inhabited as deeply aligned. The experience of displacement is to feel oneself as so disconnected from the intricacies of a place as to assume that such intricacies are non-existent; the self is unable to find a home within a place as the place is experienced as devoid of meaning and significance. In this paper I challenge this dualistic account of emplacement and displacement using Val Plumwood’s observations pertaining to dualisms and dismantling dualisms. I explore Plumwood’s account of ‘Being Prey’ as an example of how a non-dualistic understanding of ‘placement’ may emerge
Wijkman & Rockström, "Bankrupting Nature: Denying Our Planetary Boundaries"
No full textBankrupting Nature: Denying our Planetary Boundaries by Andres Wijkman and Johan Rockström emerges from the original report of The Club of Rome’s The Limits to Growth authored by Meadows and colleagues in 1972. This book shows that an economy built on the continuous expansion of material consumption is not sustainable. Based on the increased evidence of the uncanny correlation between the escalating rates of global economic growth and environmental degradation, this book continues to raise worldwide awareness of environmental problems created as the result of anthropogenic activities. Bankrupting Nature demonstrates that we are still in deep denial about the magnitude of the global environmental challenges and resource constraints facing the world. The authors state that the challenges of sustainability cannot be met by simply tinkering with the current economic system, but will require major changes in the way members of political and corporate elites and general public perceive and address environmental and social issues. As reported in the recent press release of The Club of Rome (2012), this volume lays out a blue-print for a radically changed economic system that links economics with ecology, arguing that this is the only way to generate growth in the future
Billinghurst, "The Armchair Book of Gardens: A Miscellany"
No full textBillinghurst has created a beautiful botanical collage of illustration, poetry and prose about the history and significance of gardening. Acknowledging gardens not only as places of sensuous pleasures but as a way of viewing the world, gardens as ecological sites is largely missed from the miscellany. Drawing on gardens as a worldview, gardening is considered as a way of fostering an ecological identity in relation to the way it may remind us of our embeddedness in the more-than-human world
