by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Sep 10, 2025 | Uncategorized
October (1-3) I’ll be presenting as part of Utrecht University’s CONCEPTUALIZING ECOCIDE conference on the relations between ecocide and semiocide, as part of the “Rethinking Harm in the Anthropocene” panel. This builds on my previous talks at...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Jun 22, 2025 | Uncategorized
Okay, so I’ve been doing a lot of podcasts lately. On completely different topics (a not-so-secret joy of mine is inter/trans/multidisciplinarity). But this one explicitly calls me out — It’s both very ‘business friendly’, and happens to...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Jun 22, 2025 | Biophilia, Biosemiotics, Plants
I would argue that, although I am a so-called plant philosopher, that actually this domain is the easiest starting point for understanding from a generalist’s perspective what constitutes a beautiful, intact, harmonious ecology. For example, entomology is much...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | May 27, 2025 | Bureaucratic quixotic, chemicals, Climate Change, Conflicts of Interest, Environmental Justice, Environmental Political Theory, Extended Producer Responsibility, fake loops, folly, Fragmentation, Greenwashing, Indigenous Peoples, Industrial Epidemics, Perverse Incentives, pollution, Public Health, Side-effects, Systems thinking, Uncategorized
Why is Norway investing in the Amazon Fund when it has gigantic state-owned mining operations destroying the Amazon? This paradox, or contradiction could be dismissed as merely a really expensive greenwashing campaign. Maybe Norway never cared about the Amazon in the...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | May 24, 2025 | Uncategorized
Having worked on biosemiotics for 10 years since earning my PhD in environmental philosophy on interspecies communication and ethics, I’ve found increasingly fascinating the various traps of thinking and premature conclusions awaiting the intrepid...
