Month: September 2017

  • interspecies play as the antidote

    That recent post, ‘The Myth of Sustainability‘, is a short realist critique of sustainability. Here I want to dig under the realism and pull out the more profound challenges. Then...

  • The myth of sustainability

    In recent conversations I have heard the word ‘sustainable’ used as an unthinking excuse, an adequate gesture of compensation for violent and massive environmental destruction, one too many times. Most...

  • Buddhist racism is wrong.

    I want to express my sorrow and frustration at the ongoing oppression of the Rohingya. I was reporting on the plight of the Rohingya in Burma and the Chakma in...

  • Two models for ecotourism in Danzhai

    For the past three years I have been fortunate to consult with the Guizhou government on questions of local development and the proper stewardship of biocultural diversity. This has usually...