sustainability

deep sustainability, art and philosophy, at university college cork

Last week I presented a talk on 'deep sustainability and the art and politics of forests' for the new trans-disciplinary series of seminars on 'Sustainability and Modern Society, organised by scientist Dr Edmond Byrne of University College Cork (UCC). I was warmly welcomed by all who braved a very wet night in Cork - there…Read more deep sustainability, art and philosophy, at university college cork

art, sustainability and modern society at university college cork

I have been very fortunate to have been invited to speak at a new course at University College Cork (UCC's) next week, Oct 16 2012, on art, sustainability and community. It's to UCC's credit in designing such a course when so much national focus is currently on the demise of the economy and rarely on…Read more art, sustainability and modern society at university college cork

Deep sustainability and the art and politics of forests

‘I thought again of our fundamental inversion of all relatedness, of how we nearly always ask the wrong question—What can I get from this?—and so rarely the right one—What can I give back? Even when we try to learn from others, it is from the same spirit of acquisition: What can I learn from this…Read more Deep sustainability and the art and politics of forests