We Should All Learn kōkua and kāko‘o By Lina Aschenbrenner On Wednesday, 9 August 2023, Hawai‘i wakes up to devastating videos of Lahaina going up in flames and images of complete annihilation—houses, cars, and people—from uncontrollable flames driven by strong winds on dry land. The power and phone network is Read more
The Impossibility of Consent and Other Problems on Mauna Kea By Greg Johnson This post pertains to the Thirty Meter Telescope project on Mauna Kea (Hawai`i), which the author has written about on this forum previously. For important background and analysis of the dispute, see this forum in Radical History Read more
Reaching for the Stars: Notes from the Magic-Detection Project By Teya Brooks Pribac Driving from Sydney, Australia, to the desert town of Broken Hill, a thousand kilometers to the west, whether by the southern or the northern route, the numerous signposts on the way may create the impression that all Read more
Telescopes, Blind Spots, and Future Horizons on Mauna Kea By Greg Johnson This post pertains to the TMT project on Mauna Kea (Hawai`i), which the author has written about on this forum previously. For important background and analysis of the dispute, see this forum in Radical History Review. On 4 Read more
Invoking the Sacred: Between Conflict and Peace in Climate Conflicts By Joram Tarusarira The impacts of climate change are increasingly undermining human, national, and international security. The modern obsession with positivism and technical approaches to addressing climate-induced conflicts neglects the deeper, more spiritual dimensions that motivate and propel actors in Read more
Indigenous Cosmovision Challenges Us to Move from Restoring to “Re-storying” Ecosystems By Daniel Bryan Recently, I accompanied a Humans for Abundance team to the community of Mushullakta with master ecosystem restorer, Omar Tello. In a workshop on interconnecting cultural traditions to ecosystem restoration, we defined the community’s ecosystem as a Read more
Storytelling for Social and Planetary Change – A Pachaysana / Counterpoint Webinar This series of workshops was co-sponsored by The Pachaysana Institute, Counterpoint: Navigating Knowledge, The Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab at Florida International University, the Religious Studies Department at Florida International University, as well as the Department of English at Read more
Spirituality in Forest Management—A New Orientation in Human-Forest Interactions By Cathrien de Pater The hall is crowded. The community of Rhenen (in the Netherlands) has gathered to question why so many trees were cut in the nearby woodlands over the last year. The foresters explain the necessity of thinning for Read more
What Lies Beneath: Wildfires and Indigenous Fire Knowledge By Sarah M. Pike “Follow the smoke,” Ali Meders-Knight told a group of us who had gathered at a local coffee shop to hear about Indigenous environmental practices in northern California. Meders-Knight is a member of the Mechoopda tribe, whose ancestral lands Read more
Decolonizing Knowledge: Anthropocentrism and Cosmotheandrism in a World of Technologies By Simon Kofi Appiah Knowledge production for a sustainable biosphere must forego any overdependence on exploitative epistemologies. Exploitative ways of knowing promote domination, and dominance reverses the order of knowing. In such schemes, power becomes knowledge instead of knowledge becoming Read more