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The Privilege of “Loving Your Monster” and the Forgotten Irreversibles of Modernity Reflections on meeting Michael Shellenberger
America's Calling for Preventative Assessments and Community Resiliency Building in Resource Extraction Reflections on meeting Ruth and Peter Bechtel
Healing through Integration and Solidarity Reflections on meeting David Orr
Orange Squares and Solidarity Beyond the Green: Justice and Civil Rights in Divestment Reflections on meeting Bill McKibben
I had the pleasure of participating in various discussions with big name speakers surrounding Sustainability. These blog entries are my contributions to a series of blog entries meant to foster a space for participants in Dickinson College’s faculty study group Living in a World of Limits, and students in the Baird Honors Colloquium, to share and examine ideas about a critical challenge of the 21st century: improving the human condition, equitably, sustainably and within limits that protect the natural environment.
LIVING IN A WORLD OF LIMITS
Improving the human condition, equitably, sustainably and within limits that protect the natural environment, is perhaps the critical challenge of the 21st century. The Clarke Forum theme of the spring 2013 semester will explore this challenge from multiple perspectives that span and integrate the arts and humanities, social sciences and natural sciences, with a goal of informing the continued infusion of sustainability across the Dickinson curriculum. Topics will range from the local to the global and include practical models for building sustainable communities, social, environmental and health effects of developing natural gas in Pennsylvania and Mozambique, social movements to combat global climate change, and interpreting and responding to planetary boundaries.