The Trumpeter - Journal of Ecosophy (Athabasca University)
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Sea to Sea by Bike: Perspectives of Canada and Canadians
Get PDFThis narrative describes my learning and insights from a three-month plus family bicycle trip covering more than 7600 kms across Canada. It illustrates the process of experiencing and learning about community, culture and geography by traveling through it on a bike, and shares some of the personal perspectives and understandings I gained through this process. I argue that a marathon bike trip can be a very powerful interpretive and experiential process of place that facilitates a unique and valuable means of understanding diverse cultural and geographical landscapes
METAPHYSICS AS A BASIS FOR DEEP ECOLOGY: AN ENQUIRY INTO SPINOZA’S SYSTEM
Get PDFRecently, Deep Ecology has gained a new impetus because of the current state of affairs threatening the planet and because of intellectual changes in the field. One of these crucial intellectual changes came about as theorists gained a better understanding of what Naess meant by the concepts ‘Deep Ecology’ and ‘ecosophy’ in his talk in Bucharest in 1972 – the first part will focus on this. The second part will focus on the use by Deep Ecology supporters of Spinoza’s metaphysical system as a foundation to their own views, and it identifies problems and proposes solutions through an alternative reading of Spinoza’s metaphysics, especially his concepts of monism and conatus
Wild Salmon
Get PDFThis is a personal reflection on how the Child of the Water theme in the ancient Navajo story of Where the Two Came to Their Father has manifested in modern clothing
Transpersonalization to "Petness"
Get PDFAccording to Paul Shepard, to be human has always involved the process of totemic transpersonalization toward non-human animal “otherness.” For him, this process has aided and shaped our very own cognitive faculties, resulting in the structuring of human minds and societies. Pre-agricultural humans also adopted animals and held pets as companions, and later on, with the advent of agriculture, humans had a hand in shaping the evolution of tamable species (sheep, pigs, cows, etc). Questions are raised with respect to a perverted transpersonalization process toward humanized, tamed animals as opposed to the essential qualities of wild animals (totemic virtues)
An Outline of an Ecumenical Environmental Ethic
Get PDFAn ecumenical environmental ethic is grounded on some values, imperatives or principles of the world’s major religions. Its basic feature is that it prescribes standards of behavior that are appropriate for human relationship with the natural world. In this paper I provide an outline of such an ethic. I do this in two ways. Firstly, by comparing the Hindu, Judeo-Christian, and Buddhist views on the natural environment and human interaction with nature. Secondly, by presenting some of the common values, imperatives or principles that emerge from these religions with regards to human relationship with the natural world. Although this account of an ecumenical environmental ethic is incomplete I believe it provides the basis for further discussions of not just what a complete account of ecumenical environmental ethic will look like but what it has to offer in the overall debate of how best to deal with the various environmental problems confronting us today
Gabriel Manrique: An Environmentalist Filmmaker
Get PDF"At a time when amorphous movements like “ecopsychology” are already and quickly becoming “gentrified” (the “gentrification of green”), attracting the “emancipated” weekend suburban “green warriors” to “slow-feeding” and farm-marketing, here is a young person who risks life and limb to make our planet a better, safer, and more just place to live—in our collective name he endures what most of us would not. Serious documentary filmmaking can and does operate as “witnessing.” Gabriel Manrique adopts this “sacred” task with ample cinematographic talent.
