Category Archives: nature

Toward an Earthwise economy, part 1: Ecological economics

Posted on April 29, 2009 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

The economic crisis we’re in gives us an undreamed-of opportunity to make course corrections in our economy and our lives. Today’s post marks the first in a series taking a serious look at viable alternatives to the economic practices and … Continue reading →

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Rats giggle too

Posted on April 27, 2009 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

Ten years ago when neuroscientist Jaak Panksepp published his research showing that rats laugh when you tickle them, he might have gotten laughed off the stage. Most people still thought that “sophisticated” emotions like laughter required the kind of consciousness … Continue reading →

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Being known by a birch tree

Posted on April 24, 2009 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

I grew up in a small white house at the very edge of a tiny town in northwest Ohio. Beside the house my parents had planted just a few years before my birth a cut-leaf weeping birch tree, Betula pendula … Continue reading →

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Finding tongues in trees

Posted on April 21, 2009 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

Over the weekend I attended a conference on religion, ethics, and nature at Ohio Northern University, where one of the keynote speakers was David Abram. A dozen years ago Abram wrote a book that for me worked magic. It became … Continue reading →

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String theory for mere mortals

Posted on April 17, 2009 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

I had the treat this week of attending a lecture by Brian Greene on the CU campus—another packed-to-the-gills science lecture, this one in a two-thousand-seat auditorium. Greene’s book The Elegant Universe and PBS documentary of the same name a few … Continue reading →

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