349 research outputs found
Ep. #183 - Solar Power, Solar Justice (feat. Dustin Mulvaney)
No full textThis recording and transcript form part of a collection of podcasts conducted by the Cultures of Energy at Rice University. Cultures of Energy brings writers, artists and scholars together to talk, think and feel their way into the Anthropocene. We cover serious issues like climate change, species extinction and energy transition. But we also try to confront seemingly huge and insurmountable problems with insight, creativity and laughter.Cymene and Dominic cover the stress (and joy!) of center directorships and sandwich-making on this week’s podcast. Then (13:53) Dustin Mulvaney (http://www.dustinmulvaney.com) visits the pod to tell us all the things we need to know about solar energy but were afraid to ask. He’s the author of the excellent new book, Solar Power: Innovation, Sustainability and Environmental Justice(U California Press, 2019). We start by talking about whether it’s possible to make a solar power revolution both rapid and just. That gets us to the toxic externalities of solar cell manufacture and his work with the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition (http://svtc.org) to create a Solar Scorecard system that helps pressure manufacturers to clean up their production processes. Dustin breaks down for us the environmental advantages and disadvantages of both photovoltaic (PV) and concentrated solar (CSP) systems and then we turn to what he calls the “Green Civil War” brewing between animal rights activists and renewable energy activists over land use changes especially in the American Southwest. In closing we discuss whether a radically decentralized energy ecology could help advance environmental justice goals and what lessons should be learned from Obama era ARRA solar investments in terms of improving energy justice in the future
Jonesin': the life and music of Philly Joe Jones
No full textThis thesis explores the life of drummer “Philly” Joseph Rudolf Jones, one of jazz’s most renowned, unknown figures. As the drummer for the Miles Davis Quintet/Sextet and a later incarnation of the Bill Evans Trio, Joe achieved worldwide fame and success. Yet, his life story has always been told in the footnotes of the towering figures he performed with: John Coltrane, Bud Powell, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, etc. Jazz history books recognize Joe’s contributions and nearly all provide a space, albeit a small one, to recognize his accomplishments. Leonard Feather’s The Encyclopedia of Jazz has an entry for Joe, Lewis Porter’s An Historical Survey of Jazz Drumming Styles lists Joe as an important figure in the evolution of jazz drumming, and The Oxford Companion to Jazz states that “just about anyone of consequence worked with Jones.” These texts and many others put Joe in a place of prominence for a handful of sentences. However, footnoting Joe’s success overlooks the fact that he recorded on more than one-hundred albums from 1955-1960 and was probably the most recorded American drummer in any genre during that time period. Despite his popularity and critical acclaim, no published author has delved into Joe’s complex life with any depth. This thesis explores Joe’s musical biography and seeks to illuminate the paradoxes therin. Joe’s story contains drug use, prison time, and abrasive behavior. On the other hand, he was an excellent musician and a generous man who mentored many young musicians. Joe’s life is intertwined in a web of circumstantial experiences: a fatherless upbringing, military service during World War II, integrating the Philadelphia Transit Company, and working to survive as a musician in New York. There are also lesser-known parts of his life including his roots as a Rhythm and blues drummer, his love for big band music, and his associations with the avant-garde. Joe overcame the obstacles of socioeconomic status, racism, evolving musical styles, and the drug culture to become a superb musician who still found time to educate the next generation.M.A.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Dustin E. MalloryIncludes discograph
What is an Animal Companion? Revisiting the Barnbaum-Varner Definition
No full textMany animal ethicists have shifted from using the term “pet” to the term “animal companion,” but what exactly is an animal companion? Arguably, the most comprehensive description of what an animal companion is comes from Gary Varner, who builds upon the work of Deborah Barnbaum. This article examines what I call the Barnbaum-Varner definition of an animal companion. I suggest that while the definition mostly captures what we think of when we think of an animal companion, there are potential philosophical issues that may impede constructive use of this definition. A revised version of the Barnbaum-Varner definition is developed to avoid these issues
Neo-Aristotelian Friendship and Non-Human Animals: Can I be Friends with My Dog?
No full text“A dog is man’s best friend” is a well-known and widely used phrase, but are we right in thinking that dogs are our friends? If so, do we owe our dogs what we owe our friends? Aristotle recognized three different kinds of friends: friends of utility, friends of pleasure, and friends of virtue. I suggest that dogs can meet the conditions necessary for entering into the first two kinds of friendship, but that there is a potential moral hazard in thinking about our relationship with dogs in these terms. It is unclear whether dogs can meet the more stringent conditions necessary to enter friendships of virtue. Furthermore, the moral responsibilities that animal companion caregivers take on appear to be different than those of friendship. For these reasons, I challenge the notion that a neo-Aristotelian conception of friendship best captures the relationship we have with dogs
What is an Animal Companion? Revisiting the Barnbaum-Varner Definition
No full textMany animal ethicists have shifted from using the term “pet” to the term “animal companion,” but what exactly is an animal companion? Arguably, the most comprehensive description of what an animal companion is comes from Gary Varner, who builds upon the work of Deborah Barnbaum. This article examines what I call the Barnbaum-Varner definition of an animal companion. I suggest that while the definition mostly captures what we think of when we think of an animal companion, there are potential philosophical issues that may impede constructive use of this definition. A revised version of the Barnbaum-Varner definition is developed to avoid these issues
Golden, Oregon cultural landscape report
No full textby Susan Johnson and Dustin Welch ; prepared in collaboration with the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department and the University of Oregon.Title from PDF title page (viewed on September 4, 2020).This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
High-resolution trace element geochemistry and sequence stratigraphy of the Middle-Late Devonian (Givetian-Frasnian) Frasnes crisis
No full textThe Middle–Late Devonian (Givetian–Frasnian) ‘Frasnes’ event is marked by a second order mass extinction approximately coeval with the deposition of black shale on a global scale and the ‘falsiovalis’ positive δ13C isotope excursion. These characteristics are also hallmarks of extensively studied mass extinction events such as the Late Devonian Kellwasser (Frasnian-Famennian) and the end-Devonian Hangenberg crises. However, the relative timing of black shale intervals, eustatic sea-level fluctuations, and the carbon isotope excursion is unknown, and any possible causative relationships cannot be determined. This research provides a high-resolution integrated geochemical dataset to evaluate the paleoenvironmental condition of the rocks deposited during the Frasnes interval in central Nevada and compares those results to the better understood Kellwasser and Hangenberg events. Geochemical data from the Frasnes event is tied to lithostratigraphic sections and used to build a sequence stratigraphic framework from which eustatic changes are identified and linked directly to elemental abundance data. These data, in conjunction with new biostratigraphic and carbon isotope data collected from the same samples, places these events within a chronostratigraphic framework and helps to further our understanding of this significant Earth history event.Restricted until 06/2023. To request the author grant access, click on the PDF link to the left
Moral Disagreement and Audi\u27s Account of Moral Intuitionism
No full textIn Moral Perception Robert Audi advocates for an intuitionist account of moral perception in which a moral agent of the proper disposition can use emotion and intuition as a means of supporting or justifying knowledge claims concerning certain moral truths or propositions. Since emotion and intuition can vary from agent to agent and neither agent would be better disposed to claim priority for their emotion or intuition over that of the other agent this opens Audi’s account up to possible instances of problematic disagreement. For this reason, I argue that agents in this intuitionist picture ought to remain epistemically agnostic towards any moral proposition that they and a relevant epistemic/moral peer actually disagree upon, at least until the disagreement has been resolved
The Malleability of the Past: "Íslendingabók" as Narrative History
No full text"Íslendingabók" (Book of Icelanders) is the earliest surviving history of Iceland, written by the priest Ari Þorgilsson sometime between 1122 and 1133. Despite spanning the period from the Settlement in the ninth century to 1118, the work is concise, which suggests that a specific selection of information was made by the author during the composition process. This hypothesis is supported by the quality of the information conveyed, which seems to favour Ari himself and his patrons, and by Ari’s omission of material that would compromise his view, evidence of which is nevertheless present in other sources.
This article explores "Íslendingabók" as a careful reconstruction of the Icelandic past, thus as narrative history; the focus will be on the strategies and aims that lay behind the author’s project, not least on the ideological foundations that shaped Ari’s views. This approach will allow for a better appreciation of the text and its production context, as compared to the influential but often uncritical methods used to study the work that flourished during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and which still reverberate today, within both scholarly discussions of the work and popular contemporary attitudes in Iceland towards the country’s medieval history and culture
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