Energy, Nature and Wildlife Conservation

Actress Margot Kidder arrested at White House in Keystone pipeline protests

Canadian actress Margot Kidder, who played Louise Lane in the Superman movies, was arrested last week at a protest outside the White House. Over 2,000 people, including other celebrities such as Danny Glover, have vowed to face arrest as part of a mass civil disobedience in opposition to the “super-sizing” of the Keystone pipeline. Continue reading Actress Margot Kidder arrested at White House in Keystone pipeline protests

Education and Learning

Call for Papers: Long-term Sustainable Development Scenarios

Call for Papers for a Special Issue on Long-term Sustainable Development Scenarios Deadline for submission: 15 November 2011 Natural Resources Forum, a United Nations Sustainable Development Journal, a  quarterly journal issued by the Division for Sustainable Development of the United Nations calls for papers for a special issue on long-term scenarios for sustainable development, to […] Continue reading Call for Papers: Long-term Sustainable Development Scenarios

Alberta, Events, Natural Resources Management

Conference: Petrocultures: Oil, Energy, Culture

Conference: Petrocultures: Oil, Energy, Culture September 6-8, 2012 / Campus Saint-Jean, University of Alberta Keynote Speakers: Ursula Biemann, (video artist, Switzerland) Warren Cariou, (University of Manitoba) Allan Stoekl, (Penn State University) Petrocultures will bring together scholars, writers, filmmakers and artists from around the world who are engaged in an exploration of the social and cultural […] Continue reading Conference: Petrocultures: Oil, Energy, Culture

Around the Web, Education and Learning

Cornell University offers course in Urban Environmental Education

As more members of the world’s population now reside in a cities than rural areas, environmental education is increasingly likely to take place in an urban context rather than the wilderness. Urban environmental education presents a host of different considerations that are separate to traditional environmental education taking place in pristine wilderness areas. The Cornell […] Continue reading Cornell University offers course in Urban Environmental Education

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The Wealth of Nature

The title of John Michael Greer’s The Wealth of Nature: Economics as if Survival Mattered contains references to two very different economic works: Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations and E.F. Schumacher’s Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered. He calls on both books in his attempt to demonstrate that contemporary economics has gone astray. Continue reading The Wealth of Nature