Archive for the ‘Science’ Category
Reflections from recent trips across Southeastern Pennsylvania: Communities are increasingly forced to deal with the long-term impacts of industrialization, where the veneer of economic prosperity ultimately gives away to reveal damaged communities and impaired ecological processes. We visited two sites that are deploying strategies to deal with such post-industrial conditions. One location was Palmerton, Pennsylvania; [...]
This semester, one component of our core requirements involves weekly ecology field trips around the Philadelphia region. When we left the city to head to the Ringing Rocks County Park, I was anticipating our visit to be merely a casual observation of some rock formations. I didn’t expect that this trip would involve an extremely [...]
Still staying in tune on the Michigan front: This week the Detroit Free Press published a pretty good article about local activists in Michigan who are speaking out about global warming through workshops and presentations for community organizations, neighborhood block clubs and church groups. The individuals highlighted (including my friend and former employer) are part [...]
Just within the past two weeks, I have been part of conversations with a range of people — with non-SNRE types, around Detroit living rooms, during carpools, and in sangha discussions, that are speaking with passionate concern and urgency about global warming and climate change. The level of public consciousness about climate change has changed [...]
The Detroit Free Press recently published a great feature on Professor Bunyan Bryant, former teacher and mentor to me when I did my stint at U-M. What I have always appreciated about Bryant is his dedication to students, and his passion to push the envelope in academia, challenging traditional notions of epistemology and research. A [...]
Grace Lee Boggs often cites Magaret Wheatley‘s writings. Lately she has been referring a lot to the quote below, where Wheatley draws comparisons between Newtonian science and quantum physics as they relate to organizing. This is a different kind of approach to thinking about the impacts of our every action in our daily lives. It [...]
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An investigation of the systems, infrastructure, and design processes that create or perpetuate socio-economic and environmental stratification of communities, this publication explore issues of the environment (constructed, cultivated or untended), public health, mobility and access, communication, and race, class and culture. Featuring authors from design fields of architecture, landscape architecture, city planning, historic preservation, and urban design.
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