by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Mar 20, 2023 | agroecology, algae, Artificial Everything, Biomimicry, Climate Change, conservation, deep ecology, Interspecies Communication, philosophy of science, Plants, Publications, Systems thinking
How does the race to make algae do tasks for us undermine the ability of those algae to perform their metabolic tasks? My colleagues and I have a new article out looking at the limits of enclosed ecosystems (lab controlled algae breeding for energy/food/oil, etc)....
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Mar 30, 2022 | agroecology, Aphorisms, beyond idealism, Biophilia, Decolonization, deep ecology, Indigenous Peoples, Uncategorized
Pat McCabe, Weyakpa Najin Win (Woman Stands Shining) of the Diné (Navajo) Nation describes the difference between lighting a fire by hand, versus with a standard plastic or metal lighter: “the machine takes out the tenderest part of feeling.” It’s not as if nothing is...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Dec 17, 2021 | agroecology, Bad Advertising, beyond idealism, beyond liberalism, Bureaucratic quixotic, Climate Change, Conflicts of Interest, death, Decolonization, deus ex machina, Environmental Justice, Environmental Political Theory, Extended Producer Responsibility, Fake Freedoms, glyphosate, Greenwashing, Harm Reduction, Industrial Epidemics, Industry Documents, Perverse Incentives, philosophy of science, pollution, Public Health, Side-effects, Syndemics, Systems thinking, Talks
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Feb 21, 2020 | agroecology, beyond idealism, beyond liberalism, Biomimicry, Climate Change, Decolonization, deep ecology, Environmental Justice, Fake Freedoms, Industrial Epidemics, Normal is Over, permaculture, Priorities, Public Health, Syndemics
I have a new blog post over at the Erasmus University Rotterdam initiative I’m a part of, the Dynamics of Inclusive Prosperity. This interdisciplinary research team from law, business, and philosophy brings together mavericks who work across disciplines, and are...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Aug 26, 2019 | agroecology, animals, Bad Advertising, beyond idealism, beyond liberalism, Biomimicry, Biophilia, Bureaucratic quixotic, Climate Change, Communication, Conferences, conservation, Decolonization, Discursive Gap, duh, eating animals, Energy, Environmental Justice, exploitation, Extended Producer Responsibility, folly, Greenwashing, Harm Reduction, Industrial Epidemics, meat, Normal is Over, Perverse Incentives, pollution, Syndemics, Systems thinking, Unpleasant Design
The ISEE, or the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology, is an organization that one would expect to walk its talk. After all, it has been around for 31 years with its annual conferences, and is one of the most sophisticated and cutting edge of the...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Mar 1, 2019 | agroecology, Conferences, Environmental Political Theory, exploitation, Extended Producer Responsibility, folly, glyphosate, Industrial Epidemics, Normal is Over, Perverse Incentives, philosophy of science, Plants, pollution, Side-effects, Syndemics, Systems thinking, Talks
My Erasmus University Rotterdam colleague Alessandra Arcuri and I are organizing a day-long workshop on the most used pesticide in the world: glyphosate. Glyphosate, the active ingredient in RoundUp, Monsanto’s flagship herbicide, has been linked with cancer by...
