Tag Archives: sustainability

The law of the ground is sharing

Posted on November 21, 2012 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

What does Thanksgiving have to do with an election? This year, a whole lot. The start of the season of sharing follows close on the heels of a season full of not-so-generous attitudes. I’m thinking of Mitt Romney’s sour note … Continue reading →

Posted in nature, politics, spirituality | Tagged Aboriginal, community, Deborah Bird Rose, ecological economics, election, Indigenous, interest, Joshua Farley, land-community, ownership, potlatch, property, redistribution, Ronald Trosper, sharing, sustainability, Thanksgiving, volunteering | 2 Comments

Happy Holy $hit Day!

Posted on November 14, 2012 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

Happy Diwali! The Hindu Festival of Lights began yesterday, all dazzling color and light and yummy foods. A lesser-known holiday celebrating the other end of the food cycle takes place today. Here is my post in honor of Govardhan Puja, … Continue reading →

Posted in nature, spirituality | Tagged agriculture, cycle of life, factory farming, farming, food, holidays, manure, organic, permaculture, sustainability, sustainable agriculture, Vandana Shiva | Comments Off

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

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

The sustainable food buzz

Posted on January 29, 2011 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

It was supposed to be a small gathering—a few people interested in green business collecting after work to talk about how to grow enough safe food to feed everyone on the planet. But by the time the speaker stood up … Continue reading →

Posted in nature | Tagged agriculture, farming, organic, sustainability, sustainable agriculture | 4 Comments

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 →

Posted in education, nature, politics, spirituality | Tagged attitudes toward nature, food, natural resource, organic, reciprocity, sustainability | 21 Comments

Good news for creeks

Posted on March 25, 2009 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

This week the Environmental Protection Agency took a step to slow mountaintop removal coal mining by writing letters to the Army Corp of Engineers expressing serious concerns about two mining operations in the Appalachians. In mountaintop removal, mountains are blasted … Continue reading →

Posted in nature, politics | Tagged creeks, EPA, mountaintop removal, natural resources, streams, sustainability, water policy, Wendell Berry | Comments Off