Category Archives: politics

The rights of nature, from Cochabamba to Cancún

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

They didn’t get much press—the 15,000 or so people who gathered last April in Cochabamba, Bolivia, for a different kind of climate gathering. Discouraged by what the world “leaders” failed to accomplish last December at the UN meeting in Copenhagen, … Continue reading →

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More about online comments from ONA10

Posted on October 31, 2010 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

At the Online News Association meeting in DC over the weekend, one of the early sessions, hosted by Alicia Shepard of NPR, was “No Comment: Rethinking Online Commentary.” No surprise—news sites everywhere are grappling with the climate of vicious comments … Continue reading →

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The climate of online comments

Posted on October 19, 2010 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

In a word, it’s nasty. I knew this from scanning news stories on media sites, but I got a firsthand dose when the Boulder Daily Camera posted online their article and video about my take on the old ponderosa pine … Continue reading →

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How does climate change affect Colorado’s water?

Posted on October 15, 2010 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

Most Americans have the luxury of believing that the effects of climate change lie in the future. After all, our houses are not crumbling into melting permafrost, as in Alaska, or the rising sea, as in the Maldives. We have … Continue reading →

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What about that mosque at Ground Zero?

Posted on August 20, 2010 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

In 2004 I was hired to help edit the book What’s Right with Islam Is What’s Right with America by Feisal Abdul Rauf, the imam and educator who is spearheading plans to construct a Muslim cultural center—not a mosque—two blocks … Continue reading →

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10 ways to give back to the Earth

Posted on July 8, 2010 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

The conversation around the table turned to the gushing oil in the Gulf of Mexico, the sense of powerlessness we all feel to do anything about it. We know our lifestyle is driving the need for oil. We know how … Continue reading →

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Reciprocity

Posted on February 7, 2010 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

I’ve been thinking about reciprocity lately—how it holds relationships together. How partnerships end if one or the other takes more than gives. How wars start over lack of reciprocity—disrespect, seizing land, taking resources. How contracts aren’t successful and trades don’t … Continue reading →

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