Tag Archives: climate change

Why I support Occupy Wall Street

Posted on October 15, 2011 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

In a word: health. The health of the planet. Put simply, a huge gap between the fabulously wealthy and everyone else is bad for the planet. Why? Because such a system is wasteful and costly. It’s wasteful because it allows … Continue reading →

Posted in nature, politics | Tagged attitudes toward nature, climate change, ecological economics, economics, global warming, inequality, sustainability | 11 Comments

David Orr on confronting climate collapse

Posted on April 7, 2011 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

Note from Priscilla: We don’t need “happy talk” about the climate, says environmental studies professor David Orr. Everyone from political leaders to next-door neighbors needs to break the climate silence and tell the truth about what is happening with the … Continue reading →

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Breaking the climate silence

Posted on March 14, 2011 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

We know it’s getting worse; we’re not climate deniers. We’re well informed and aware of the facts. And yet we go about our lives as if nothing has changed. We live the same way we lived five years ago, before … Continue reading →

Posted in nature, politics, spirituality | Tagged climate change, climate denial, climate silence, climate support group, Gary Snyder, global warming | 21 Comments

Valuing the spaceship we’ve got

Posted on February 10, 2011 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

In a lecture I attended last night, Daniel Lerch, editor of the immensely informative Post Carbon Reader, opened with that iconic picture of Earth shot from Apollo 8 as it circled the moon at Christmastime 1968: No doubt inspired (again) … Continue reading →

Posted in nature, politics, spirituality | Tagged climate change, dreams, global warming, reciprocity, space travel, sustainability | 1 Comment

On angel food cake and Earth care

Posted on January 10, 2011 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

My New Year’s took an unexpected turn, shaped by two events—one intensely personal and the other happening halfway around the world. In Australia, the state of Queensland was slammed with floods affecting an area twice the size of California. Closer … Continue reading →

Posted in nature, spirituality | Tagged climate change, earth care, earthcare, global warming, nature as kin | 9 Comments

COP16 saves UN process–at what cost?

Posted on December 20, 2010 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

COP16 in Cancún ended recently with agreements signed by all but one of the 194 nations. The UN-sponsored negotiating process moves forward, but at what cost? The facts about the Cancún accord: It calls for deep cuts in carbon emissions … Continue reading →

Posted in nature, politics | Tagged Cancun, climate change, COP16, global warming | 2 Comments

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 →

Posted in nature, politics, spirituality | Tagged animism, Cancun, climate change, Cochabamba, COP16, indigenous traditions, Rights of Mother Earth, rights of nature | 18 Comments