by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Jul 12, 2018 | beyond idealism, Climate Change, e-waste, Energy, Extended Producer Responsibility, Industrial Epidemics, Perverse Incentives, pollution, Side-effects, Syndemics, Systems thinking, Uncategorized
My new article, “Is This Man the Elon Musk of E-Waste?” in my favorite popular science online magazine Nautilus, describes the Right to Repair movement, and the necessity to move from a linear manufacturing process built on planned and perceived...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Jun 29, 2018 | agroecology, conservation, Decolonization, Discursive Gap, Environmental Justice, Environmental Political Theory, exploitation, Indigenous Peoples, Perverse Incentives, Publications, Uncategorized
As part of my project on land rights in Latin America, a recent paper titled “Environmental justice as a (potentially) hegemonic concept: a historical look at competing interests between the MST and indigenous people in Brazil” appears in Local...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Jun 13, 2018 | Uncategorized
The 2018 Biosemiotics Gathering at UC Berkeley organized by myself and Terry Deacon takes place June 17-20 at the International House. Please see www.biosemiotics.life for more information. The Biosemiotics schedule can be found here.
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | May 1, 2018 | death, exploitation, Industrial Epidemics, Industry Documents, Perverse Incentives, pollution, Publications, Syndemics, Tobacco Industry, Uncategorized
PLOS Medicine just published an article I wrote with Jesse Elias and Pam Ling at UCSF on “Public versus internal conceptions of addiction: An analysis of internal Philip Morris documents.” This article discusses previously secret industry documents...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Apr 30, 2018 | agroecology, Climate Change, Discursive Gap, Industrial Epidemics, parasitism, philosophy of science, pollution, Syndemics, Tobacco Industry, Uncategorized, Wolves in sheep's clothing
Here I will attempt to gather and decode euphemisms (saccharine words covering up the dismal reality, e.g., climate change for global warming) and dysphemisms (derogatory terms for neutral ones, e.g., warmist for people who acknowledge the facts of global warming) of...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Mar 26, 2018 | Uncategorized
My new lexicon entry in the Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics on “Fungi Ethics” is online. It can be accessed here. Fungi ethics, which is closely allied to plant ethics, describes how fungi–both for better and worse–are forever...
