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Save California Salmon hosts Trinity River Rafting and Clean-Up

Jul 18, 2024 | krcrtv.com | James Martin

Last Sunday, in Hoopa, at least 65 people joined together to play, swim, and raft in the Trinity River while also cleaning it up. It was the 2024 Trinity River Clean-up, an on-river and land effort to clean up the Trinity River and share information about how to protect the river, according to the organization Save California Salmon. The Rios to Rivers 2024 Paddle Tribal Waters cohort and Warrior Institute were there, along with many local youths.
Biospheric Cognition

May 23, 2024 | resilience.org | James Martin

This article was originally posted in the pages of Deep Transformation Network, a Network devoted to the purpose of evolving ecological culture and/or ecological civilization. If we are going to nurture into being an ecological civilization, or an ecological culture, we’re going to require what in this writing I will call “biospheric cognition”.
Is sustainable improvement lacking the personal touch?

May 13, 2024 | ciobpeople.com | James Martin

Engaged and empowered people are fundamental to delivering ambitious environmental and social sustainability targets Even with the most robust of corporate sustainability strategies, success is – to a certain extent – reliant on individuals embracing change and playing their part. To truly embed sustainability at the heart of a business, companies need to engage their people and bring them along on the journey.
Politics (Sometimes it is necessary to wander)

Mar 12, 2024 | resilience.org | James Martin

“Not all those who wander are lost” – Bilbo BagginsAt its best, wandering may be an accord with paradox, a willingness for the world’s infinite particulars to be refracted into ten thousand contextualized meanings, none necessarily less true than the others–, even in contradiction. One can wander with one’s feet, an amble, saunter or stroll without any preconceived destination. An improvisation. An inquiry. A dance. Some aliveness.
Cultural Obsolescence & Ontological Revolution (Part 3)

Dec 19, 2023 | resilience.org | James Martin

I’m highly ambivalent about quoting ChatGPT directly. It’s a little embarrassing, actually. I’m ambivalent about using artificial intelligence at all. I see AI as being dangerous in all sorts of ways. But ChatGPT clearly does assist (one among many assistants) me with the research process which lies behind all of my writing (though it plays a very minor roll in my research process, generally).
Cultural Obsolescence & Ontological Revolution (Part 2)

Dec 18, 2023 | resilience.org | James Martin

“Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand it better but the frog dies in the process.”―E.B. WhiteWere I ever to become a stand up comedian, I might do something unusual and compose my jokes with philosophers as my audience. I’d send invitations to philosophy professors, philosophy clubs and associations, etc., to ensure that only philosophers were in my audience. Of course this will never happen.
Cultural Obsolescence & Ontological Revolution: bringing philosophy into the 21st century

Dec 18, 2023 | resilience.org | James Martin

Years ago I stumbled into a useful explanatory insight concerning our time in history, which is the insight, when stated as a concise narrative, which says that …(a) Almost everything about our current dominant world civilization embodies a design premise, which is the premise that fossil fuels are abundant and cheap (with “cheap” being a shorthand term for both relatively low economic and ecological costs).
Energy Descent, a Kaleidoscopic Dialogue

Nov 13, 2023 | resilience.org | James Martin |Nate Hagens |Eliza Daley

Let me begin with the word aptness. Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines apt as “appropriate or suitable in the circumstances”. A continual search for aptness is at or near the core of how I approach all things philosophical, and I would argue — for now — that this is as good a core principle for the practice of philosophical inquiry as any, and better than most of its alternatives.
Painting By Numbers?

Nov 6, 2023 | resilience.org | James Martin |Chris Smaje |Kurt Cobb

In a somewhat recent Guardian article on the the topic of rapid oil pipeline expansion worldwide, it was reported that “Global carbon emissions must drop by 50% by 2030 to keep on track with internationally agreed targets for limiting global heating.” This article was published in September of last year, and the evidence shows there hasn’t been any slowing down of oil pipeline construction in the world.
Holding the Fire: Episode 5. The Delusion of Dominion with Celine Lim

Oct 31, 2023 | resilience.org | Dahr Jamail |James Martin |Rupert Read

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