Poisons & Antidotes
This section will be dedicated to continually updating the text, identifying instances of accelerated inhumanity and inanity in the world-the poisons-followed by kinetic responses - the antidotes - to countermand such abuses. Sometimes, the antidotes are clever and enlightened, other times preposterous and poisonous in themselves.
Update: Professor Hershey's paper, "GLOBALIZATION AND ITS SPECIAL AND SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS ON INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES", was recently listed on SSRN's Top Ten download list for: Environmental Justice & Sustainability eJournal, Indigenous Nations & Peoples Law eJournal and International Environmental Law eJournal. The abstract can be viewed at:http://ssrn.com/abstract=2070204.
Why Question Globalization?
Websites...
National Geographic, State of the Earth 2010/Earth Pulse
Website featuring interactive maps for comparing global trends. Also includes essays, photos, and various graphics.
Source: NAT’L GEOGRAPHIC
http://earthpulse.nationalgeographic.com/earthpulse/earthpulse-map
Books/articles...
Andres Schipani, Cheap Nose Jobs Change the Face of Bolivia
Brief article discussing the exportation of western values of physical attractiveness as experienced in Bolivia.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10952492
Periodicals...
ADBUSTERS , The Birth of the Altermodern
A lengthy essay, arguing for a renaissance of binary thought, and the end of postmodernism philosophy.
Source: ADBUSTERS, Mar/Apr 2010
https://www.adbusters.org/magazine/88/birth-of-altermodern.html
Daniel Altman, Mo’ Money, Mo’ Problems
A pre-recession essay detailing problems created in the global commodity markets due to the rising costs of raw materials.
Source: THE NAT’L INTEREST, Jul/Aug 2008
http://nationalinterest.org/article/mo-money-mo-problems-2489
Newspapers/magazines...
Moises Naim, Think Again: Globalization
A Foreign Policy magazine essay outlining various criticisms of globalization. The author concludes that for all the various critiques, globalization is ‘here to stay.’
Source: FOREIGN POLICY, Mar/Apr 2009
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/02/16/think_again_globalization
Redefining Progress
Books/articles...
Jurgen Scheffran, Climate Change and Security
Journal article exploring the impact of global warming on global security.
Source: BULL ATOM SCIENTISTS, May/June 2008
http://acdis.illinois.edu/publications/207/publication-Climate-Change-and-Security.html
Periodicals...
ADBUSTERS , Thought Control in Economics
The Sept/Oct. 2009 issue of the Adbusters Magazine, exhorting students to ‘bring down neoclassical economics.’
Source: ADBUSTERS, Sept/Oct 2009
https://www.adbusters.org/magazine/85
Amitai Etzioni, Get Rich Now
Article by The New Republic contributor Amitai Etzioni discussing the effect of the economic recession, and its long-term impacts on consumerism.
Source: UTNE, Jan/Feb 2010
https://www.utne.com/Spirituality/Get-Rich-Now-Economic-Crisis-Community.aspx
Derrick Jensen, High on Progress
An article arguing against contemporary perceptions of societal progress.
Source: ORION, May/June 2010
http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/5505/
Jeffrey Sachs, User’s Guide to the Century
An article arguing for ‘unprecedented’ ‘global cooperation’ in order to combat the challenges of a new century.
Source: THE NAT’L INTEREST, Jul/Aug 2008
http://nationalinterest.org/article/a-users-guide-to-the-century-2461
Newspapers/magazines...
Jon Gertner, The Rise and Fall of the GDP
A NYT Magazine piece outlining arguments against the use of the GDP as an indicator of progress in the United States.
Source: NY TIMES MAGAZINE, May 16th, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/16/magazine/16GDP-t.html
Megan McArdle, Misleading Indicator
A critical essay outlining arguments against the use of the GDP as an indicator of progress in the United States.
Source: THE ATLANTIC, Nov 2009
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/11/misleading-indicator/7711/
Tali Woodward, The Nature of the Fiscal World
An essay detailing perceived tensions between economics and environmentalism. Evaluates whether environmentalism ‘wins or loses’ as a result of the global economic recession.
Source: CONSERVATION MAG, Jan/March 2009
http://www.conservationmagazine.org/articles/v10n1/the-nature-of-the-fiscal-world/
The Confluence of Population with Food & Water Access, Safety, and Security
Periodicals...
Javier Blas, Feeding Frenzy
A National Interest essay discussing the problems a food scarcity would create for the world.
Source: THE NAT’L INTEREST, Jul/Aug 2008
http://nationalinterest.org/article/feeding-frenzy-2490
Joel K. Bourne , Special Report: The End of Plenty
A National Geographic special report, detailing experts’ concerns of a world food shortage.
Source: NAT’L GEOGRAPHIC, June 2009
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/06/cheap-food/bourne-text
National Geographic, SPECIAL ISSUE, WATER: OUR THIRSTY WORLD
The April 2010 issue of National Geographic. Explores the implications of water as a limited resource.
Source: NAT’L GEOGRAPHIC, April 2010
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/04/table-of-contents
Rebecca Clarren, The Dark Side of Dairies
A lengthy essay detailing the plight of American dairy workers.
Source: UTNE Mar/Apr 2010 (from High Country News)
http://www.utne.com/Politics/The-Dark-Side-of-Dairies.aspx
Newspapers/magazines...
Andrew Rice, Is There Such a Thing as Agro Imperialism?
A NYT Magazine article outlining the growing trend among Middle Eastern countries to outsource their food production to African nations.
Source: NY TIMES MAGAZINE, Nov. 22, 2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/22/magazine/22land-t.html
Bryan Walsh, The Real Cost of Cheap Food
A Time Magazine piece exploring the externalities associated with food production in the United States.
Source: TIME, Aug. 31, 2009
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1917458,00.html
John Vidal, How Food and Water Are Driving a 21st-Century African Land Grab
Vidal’s eponymously titled article highlights the situation of African farmers as foreign agribusinesses purchase lands for large-scale farming.
Source: THE OBSERVER, March 7, 2010
http://www.commondreams.org/print/53569
Robert Paarlberg, Attention Whole Food Shoppers
An essay arguing against the conventional wisdom that ‘sustainable’ food helps address world hunger. Paarlberg notes that not only is organic farming less environmentally friendly than conventional farming, but it is also less sustainable.
Source: FOREIGN POLICY, May/June 2010
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/04/26/attention_whole_foods_shoppers
Population
Books/articles...
George Brailsford, The Solution: A Manifesto
Brailsford takes a fatalist view of humanity, arguing that individuals will not alter their destructive habits - particularly those associated with reproduction and overpopulation - until life on Earth is so dire as to require change.
http://gbrailsford.tripod.com/solution.html
Julian Chapple, The Dilemma Posed by Japan's Population Decline
Discusses Japan's declining population, and suggests policy options for the Japanese Government.
Source: ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE STUDY Oct. 18, 2004
http://www.japanesestudies.org.uk/discussionpapers/Chapple.html
Food and Water - Access, Safety & Security
Websites...
Anup Shah, Water and Development
Discusses the problems associated with the privatization of water rights and services.
Source: Globalissues.org
http://www.globalissues.org/article/601/water-and-development
Anuradha Mittal, Report: Global Food Security and Sovereignty Threatened by Corporate and Government "Land Grabs" in Poor Countries
Democracy Now's interview with Anuradha Mittal detalining the land grabs in third world countries by multinational corporations.
Source: Democracy Now Aug. 24, 2010
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/8/24/report_global_food_security_and_sovereignty
Jeff Conant, Review of Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy
Book review of John Bowe's work questioning how our food supply gets from ground to grocer.
Source: Orion Magazine, Mar/April 2008
http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/review/2849
Books/articles...
Brendan Borrell, Sausage Without the Squeal: Growing Meat Inside a Test Tube
Outlines scientific efforts to develop new technologies for growing 'meat' from a petri dish.
Source: Scientific American Mar. 31, 2009
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=test-tube-pork
Katherine L. Adam, Community Supported Agriculture: National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service, 2006
Brief introduction to the Community Supported Agriculture concept, and an explanation of the different types of CSAs across the country.
http://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/csa.html
The Environment and Technology - On the Precipice or In the Crevasse
Websites...
Globaloneness, What Would It Look Like
Youtube video featuring stunning images of beauty and destruction from across the globe. Urges viewers to consider a world embodying its highest potential.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ96y_yOkI0
Books/articles...
A.G. Clarke, The Frozen Ark Project: The Role of Zoos and Aquariums in Preserving Genetic Material of Threatened Animals
Launched in 2004, the Frozen Ark Project seeks to preserve the genetic material of threatened animal species before they become extinct.
Source: International Zoo Yearbook Jan. 2009
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1748-1090.2008.00074.x/full
Bertrand Russell, Albert Einstein, The Russell-Einstein Manifesto
Written in 1935, by philosopher Bertrand Russell and physicist Albert Einstein, the manifest presents a stren warning about the dangers of nuclear technology.
http://www.pugwash.org/about/manifesto.htm
Clay Dillow, Emotional Attachment to Roombas Suggests Humans Can Love Their 'Bots'
Discusses the recent phenomenon of people naming/dressing up/ and talking to their Roomba vaccuum cleaners.
Source: PopSci
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-03/emotional-attachment-roombas-suggests-humans-can-love-their-bots-seriously
Danny Hillis, The Genius of the Tinkerer
Hillis discusses how and why the best ideas come about by creatively 'tinkering' with the technology we already have.
Source: The Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703989304575503730101860838.html
Jason Silva, Why We Could All use a Dose of Techno-Optimism
Silva's piece hights reasons for technological optimism. Specifically, Silva underscores startling advances in nanotechnology and artificial intelligence as hope for cures to illnesses both natural and technological.
Source: VANITY FAIR, May 7, 2010
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2010/05/why-we-could-all-use-a-heavy-does-of-techno-optimism.html
The Economist, A Special Report on Waste
This issue of the Economist features two articles - one questioning the usefulness of recycling, and the other evaluating the technology behind waste disposal.
Source: THE ECONOMIST, February 26, 2009
http://www.economist.com/node/13135337
The Economist, A Special Report on Waste
This issue of the Economist features two articles - one questioning the usefulness of recycling, and the other evaluating the technology behind waste disposal.
Source: THE ECONOMIST, February 26, 2009
http://www.economist.com/node/13135369
Theodore Roszak, THE VOICE OF THE EARTH
Roszak's lengthy exploration of the intersection between global degredation and its effect on the human psyche.
Source: Simon & Schuster (2002)
http://www.amazon.com/Voice-Earth-Theodore-Roszak/dp/0671729683
Vernon Vinge, The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era
The article defines singularity as mankind evolving beyond our understanding because of technology. Vinge argues that the creation of a superhuman intelligence will end the human era near the year 2030.
Source: San Diego State University 1993
http://www.rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/vinge/misc/singularity.html
Periodicals...
The President's Cancer Panel, 2008 - 2009, Annual Report: Reducing Environmental Cancer Risk: What We Can Do Now
The President’s Cancer Panel’s discussion of harmful environmental exposure and its influence on cancer. The panel concludes, “At this time, we do not know how much environmental exposures influence cancer risk and related immune and endocrine dysfunction.”
Source: 2008 - 2009
http://deainfo.nci.nih.gov/advisory/pcp/annualReports/pcp08-09rpt/PCP_Report_08-09_508.pdf
Theodore Roszak, Awakening the Ecological Unconscious: Ecopsychology: Healing Our Alienation from the Rest of Creation
Rozak explores the intersection between psychology and environmentalism. He advocates the launch a new profession of environmental therapy to ‘reconnect’ humans and ‘creation.’
Source: In Context, Winter 1993
http://www.context.org/ICLIB/IC34/Roszak.htm
Newspapers/magazines...
Clive Thompson, Global Mourning: How the Next Victim of Climate Change Will Be Our Minds
A Wired Magazine piece discussing ‘solastalgia’ and the work of theorist Glenn Albrecht who coined the term.
Source: WIRED, Jan. 2008
http://www.wired.com/images/press/pdf/globalmourning.pdf
Daniel B. Smith, Is There An Ecological Unconscious
A NYT Magazine piece discussing the phenomenon of solastalgia, a psychological condition afflicting those whose homelands are under ‘immediate assault.’
Source: NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE, Jan. 31, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/magazine/31ecopsych-t.html
Nicholas D. Kristof, New Alarm Bells About Chemicals and Cancer
Kristof's op-ed discusses the pitfalls of using chemicals in food manufacturing, and explores the Federal Government's unwillingness to provide attendant regulations.
Source: The New York Times, May 6, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/06/opinion/06kristof.html
The Collision of Technology, Intellectual Property and Cultural Survival
Websites...
ACCELERATION STUDIES FOUNDATION ,
An organization committed go facilitating global change in information and communications technologies.
http://www.accelerating.org/
Arlie Hochschild, Would You Outsource Your Womb
Outlines the plight of Indian women and the growing surrogacy market in India.
Source: www.alternet.org
http://www.alternet.org/story/146141/
Carl Elliot, Humanity 2.0
Elliot explores the hidden world of an emerging science that is enamored with the preservation of human life through artificial, and technological means. Based on notes from a conference of 'transhumanists' at Yale University.
Source: WILSON QUARTERLY, Autumn 2003
http://www.mindfully.org/Technology/2003/Transhumanist-Humanity1sep03.htm
Ira Flatow, Gene Patenting
Highlights the basic facts of a federal case dealing with the patenting of genetic sequences. Includes podcast.
Source: SCIENCE FRIDAY, Dec. 11, 2009
www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/200912112
Books/articles...
Alan Robock, 20 Reasons Why Geo-Engineering May Be a Bad Idea
Self-Explanatory.
Source: BULL ATOM SCIENTISTS, May/June 2008
http://climate.envsci.rutgers.edu/pdf/20Reasons.pdf
Hava Tirsosh-Samuelson, Facing the Challenges of Transhumanism: Philosophical, Religious, and Ethical Considerations
Defines transhumanism as the confluence of the advancement of life, science, genomics, robotics, informatics, and nanotechnology, leading us to a new age of living longer with new physical, cognitive abilities , free of pain and suffering due to age and disease.
Source: The Global Spiral
http://www.metanexus.net/magazine/tabid/68/id/10169/Default.aspx
Periodicals...
Jason Mark, Hacking the Sky
Jason Mark argues why the geoengineering solutions to global warming proposed by scientists would never work. Marks questions, “whose hand do you want on the thermostat?”
Source: EARTH ISLAND JOURNAL, Autumn 2009 (Geo-engineering)
http://www.counterpunch.org/mark09182009.html
Robert Kunzig, Shading the Earth
National Geographic’s Robert Kunzig discusses geoengineering’s solutions to global warming.
Source: NAT’L GEOGRAPHIC, Aug. 2009
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/big-idea/01/shading-earth
Newspapers/magazines...
David Kupfer, The Sincerest Form of Flattery: Janine Benyus on the Virtues of Imitating Nature
An interview with Janine Benyus a scholar/design engineer who coined the term 'biomimicry'.
Source: THE SUN, Sep. 2009
http://www.thesunmagazine.org/issues/405/the_sincerest_form_of_flattery
Francis Fukayama, Transhumanism
Explores the growing movement to 'liberate' the human race from 'biological constraints,' and reevaluates the definition of human.
Source: FOREIGN POLICY, Mar/Apr 2009
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2004/09/01/transhumanism
Graeme Wood, Re-Engineering the Earth
Wood’s piece in The Atlantic explores several scientific solutions to the world’s global warming problem.
Source: THE ATLANTIC, Jul/Aug 2009
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/07/re-engineering-the-earth/7552/
Michael Specter, A Life of Its Own: Where Will Synthetic Biology Lead Us?
Explores the emerging discipline of synthetic biology, discussing the origins of the science and the implications of redesigning ‘the living world.’
Source: THE NEW YORKER, Sep. 28, 2009
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/09/28/090928fa_fact_specter
Rebecca Skloot, Creature Comforts
Discusses the use of service animals, and the legal complications arising from disparate classifications of therapy animals and psychiatric service animals.
Source: NY TIMES MAGAZINE, Jan. 4, 2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/04/magazine/04Creatures-t.html
Sara Stroud, Evolution Meets Creation
Article discussing the emerging science of biomimicry - how products based on natural designs can be applied to human problems.
Source: SUSTAINABLE INDUSTRIES, Aug. 2009
http://sustainableindustries.com/articles/2009/07/evolution-meets-creation
William Langewiesche, Stealing Weather
A Vanity Fair magazine political piece exploring China’s extensive, well-funded weather modification program.
Source: VANITY FAIR, May 2008
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/05/langewiesche200805
The Industrialization of Digitization
Websites...
The Anti-Facebook League of Intelligensia,
Anti-facebook website, concerned with privacy issues and the "loss of literacy" among its younger users.
http://www.theantifacebookleague.com
Newspapers/magazines...
Michiko Kakutani, Texts Without Context
NYT Book review of “Reality Hunger” by David Shields. Shields work is an amalgam of other works, including direct quotations and excerpts. Explores the implications of intellectual property in the Digital Age.
Source: NY TIMES MAGAZINE, Mar. 31, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/21/books/21mash.html
The Impact of Digital Technology on Indigenous Peoples
Websites...
Tohono O'Odam Nation,
Website providing information on how the Tohono O'odham gathered and prepared traditional foods and the impact of western culture on their diet.
http://www.tocaonline.org/www.tocaonline.org/Oodham_Foods/Entries/2010/3/30_The_Health_Effects_Caused_by_the_loss_of_the_Traditional_Food_System.html
Periodicals...
Michelle Chino, Darlene Haff, Carolee Dodge-Francis, Patterns of Commodity Food Use Among American Indians
Study detailing the risk of obesity and diaetes among Ameircan Indians resulting from the USDA commodity food program.
Source: Pimatisiwin: A Journal of Aboriginal and Indigenous Community Health 7(2) 2009.
http://www.pimatisiwin.com/online/wp-content/uploads/2010/jan/07HaffChino.pdf
Websites for Indigenous Cultures and the Internet
Websites...
Earth Watch Institute,
Website presenting many sundry topics related to the impact of globalization upon indigenous peoples and the environment.
http://www.wadsworth.com/anthropology_d/special_features/ext/earthwatch/rt.html
Gerri Jamieson, Haudenosaunee Environmental Task Force
Website dedicated to environmental issues impacting the indigenous peoples of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.
http://www.hetf.org/
Incomindios, Indigenous Peoples and the Information Society: Indigenous Position Paper and Action Plan for the World Summit on the Information Society II
Draft position paper outlining the terms by which indigenous peoples intended to engaged the information age vis-à-vis their right to self-determination.
Source: Incomindios.ch
http://www.incomindios.ch/arbeitsgruppen/infosociety/documents/Beyond_Tunis_EN_2.pdf
Katherine Carlton, Native American Material Heritage and the Digital Age: “Virtual Repatriation” and its Implications for Community Knowledge Sharing
Discusses efforts by the University of Michigan to foster collaboration between Indigenous communities and the University's museum through the use of digital databases and shared knowledge.
Source: Honors Thesis in the Department of Anthropology and Museum of Anthropology
http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/77643/1/carltonk.pdf
Books/articles...
Alf H. Walle, Pro Choice
Article exploring 'tribal management', defined as helping communicate indigenous values and desires to non-indigenous peoples withinthe context of development.
Source: Cultural Survival Quarterly, Spring 2010.
http://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/none/pro-choice
Periodicals...
Debra Harry, Le'a Malia Kanehe, Asserting Tribal Sovereignty Over Cultural Property: Moving Towards Protection of Genetic Material and Indigenous Knowledge
Provides an overview of indigenous cultural property issues and the pitfalls of American law in protecting it.
Source: Seattle Journal for Social Justice, Fall/Winter, 2006
http://www.ipcb.org/pdf_files/Seattle%20Journal%20Asserting%20Sovereignty%20Genetic%20Material%20&%20IK%20copy.pdf
Creating the Corporate Utopia
Books/articles...
Himadri Roy Chaudhuri, Sitanath Majumdar, Of Diamonds and Desires: Understanding Conspicuous Consumption from a Contemporary Marketing Perspective
Explores the history and culture of consumption in India.
Source: Sept. 2006
http://www.amsreview.org/articles/chaudhuri09-2006.pdf
Ken Lavender Law, Plastic Accumulation in the North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre
Research paper cataloging 22 years of data regarding the concentration of plastic in the Atlantic Ocean.
Source: SCIENCE Sept. 2010
Solutions & Conserving Communities
Websites...
Britain A. Scott, Ph.D., & Susan M. Koger, Ph.D., TEACHING PSYCHOLOGY FOR SUSTAINABILITY: A MANUAL OF RESOURCES
A manual detailing fundamental concepts for ecopsychology – the belief that it is “psychologically damaging for humans to live disconnected from their ecological context.”
Source: http://www.teachgreenpsych.com/
http://www.teachgreenpsych.com/tg_ecopsychology.html
Jeremy Rifkin, Stepping Up to the Age of Empathy, “Empathic Civilization’: When Both Faith and Reason Fail
Rifkin argues for a new narrative about human nature based on ‘embodied experience’ and empathy, moving beyond old arguments between faith and reason.
Source: www.commondreams.org
http://www.commondreams.org/print/53305
Kseniya Simonova, Sand Animation
YouTube video featuring Kseniya Simonova, a sand animator competing in the 2009 edition of “Ukraine's Got Talent.” Simonova performed a live sand animation depicting Germany’s invasion of the Ukraine during World War II.
Source: Ukraine's Got Talent
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=518XP8prwZo
Books/articles...
David Hawkings, Greenhorns: The Network that's Breathing New Life into US Farming
Documents the rise of the Greenhorns movement which encourages young people to take up sustainable farming in the 'fight' against agribusiness.
Source: ECOLOGIST Sept. 14, 2010
http://www.theecologist.org/how_to_make_a_difference/food_and_gardening/590684/green_e_network_thats_breathing_new_life_into_us_farming.html
International Institute for Environment and Development, Integrating environment and development in Viet Nam Achievements, challenges and next steps
Sixty page report detailing how future development can be both environmental and economic - at least in Viet Nam.
http://www.iied.org/pubs/pdfs/17505IIED.pdf
Llyod Alter, Jargon Watch: Vertical Gardens vs Vertical Farms vs Living Walls vs Facades
Alter's article explains the difference between living walls and vertical farms.
Source: Tree Hugger Aug. 3, 2010
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/08/jargon-watch-vertical-garden.php
Newspapers/magazines...
Derrick Jensen, 50 Simple Ways To Get Off
Derrick Jensen’s essay aims to spur sedentary environmentalists towards activism.
Source: ORION, Jan/Feb 2010
http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/5240/
Mark Kurlansky, NonViolence: The Hidden History of a Revolutionary Idea
A brief history of the term and its advocates. Kurlansky’s article is now a book: Nonviolence: Twenty-Five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea.
Source: ORION, Sep/Oct 2006
http://www.odemagazine.com/doc/42/give_non_violence_a_chance/
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Books/articles...
Andrei Codrescu, The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara and Lenin Play Chess
An interesting digression on the meaning of transhumanism and the implications of a posthuman world.
Source: Princeton U. Press 2009
http://www.amazon.com/Posthuman-Dada-Guide-Public-Square/dp/0691137781
Appleby, Joyce, The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism
Source: W.W. Norton & Company 2010
Atwood, Margaret, The Year of the Flood
Source: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2009
Bruce Sterling, Tomorrow Now: Envisioning the Next Fifty Years
Sterling, a former science fiction writer, makes a futurist's attempt at imagining the next fifty years of American society.
Source: Random House 2002
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ96y_yOkI0
Connelly, Matthew, Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population
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Source: MIT Press 2004
James E. McWilliams, Just Food: Where Locavores Get It Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly
McWilliams book famously argues against romanticized notions of local food production and organic farming, while arguing in favor of global food production and gentically-modificed crops.
Source: Little, Brown and Company 2009.
http://www.amazon.com/Just-Food-Where-Locavores-Responsibly/dp/031603374X
Jaques, Martin, When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order
Source: The Penguin Press 2010
John Bowe, Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy
Questions how our food supply gets from ground to grocer.
Source: Random House 2007
http://www.amazon.com/Nobodies-Modern-American-Global-Economy/dp/1400062098
Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals
A collection of Safran Foer's personal reflections on the ethics of eating animals.
Source: Little, Brown and Company 2009
http://www.amazon.com/Eating-Animals-Jonathan-Safran-Foer/dp/0316069906
Kathleen Dean Moore, Kurt Peters, Ted Jojola, Amber Lacy, How It Is: The Native American Philosophy of V.F. Cordova
Collections of essays detaling the works of Viola F. Cordova, the first Native American woman to earn a PhD in Philosophy.
Source: U. Arizona Press 2007
Kwame Antony Appiah, Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers
Appiah argues that the world must become politically and ethically connected in order to overcome cultural differences in order for nations to co-exist in an increasingly 'globalized' world.
Source: W.W. Norton & Company 2006
http://www.amazon.com/Cosmopolitanism-Ethics-World-Strangers-Issues/dp/0393061558
McKibben, Bill, Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet
Source: Henry Holt & Company 2010
Merry, Robert W, A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War, and the Conquest of the American Continent
Source: Simon& Schuster 2009
Nasr, Vali, Forces of Fortune: The Rise of the New Muslim Middle Class and What It Will Mean for Our World
Source: Free Press 2010
Nick Bostrom, Rebecca Roache, NEW WAVES IN APPLIED ETHICS, Ethical Issues in Human Enhancement
Chapter detailing the ethical dilemmas associated with biomedical research of disease prevention/eradication.
Source: Palgrave Macmillan 2007.
http://www.nickbostrom.com/ethics/human-enhancement.pdf
Posner, Richard A., A Failure of Capitalism
Source: Harvard Univ. Press 2009
Rhode, Deborah L., The Beauty Bias: The Injustice of Appearance in Life and Law
Source: Oxford Univ. Press 2010
Rogers, Heather, Green Gone Wrong: How Our Economy Is Undermining the Environmental Revolution
Source: Scribner 2010
Roszak, Theodore , The Voice of the Earth
Source: Phanes Press 2002
Watters, Ethan, Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche
Source: Free Press 2010
Yunus, Mohammed, Building Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism That Serves Humanity’s Most Pressing Needs
Source: Public Affairs 2010
Websites
Websites...
The Foreign Policy Association, The Global Food Security Blog of the Foreign Policy Association
Regularly updated blog discussing "challenges to global food security."
http://foodcrisis.foreignpolicyblogs.com/
The Post Carbon Institute,
Information clearinghouse addressing interdependent issues of climate change, consumption, waste and sustainability.
http://energybulletin.net
Websites for Technology & the Internet
IHS (Information Handling Service),
A website with up-to-the-minute commentary on a variety of industries including, auto, energy, health care, pharmaceutical, and telecom. Also provides commentary on issues related to energy development, the environement, and international security.
http://www.ihs.com/index.htm
Books/articles...
Katie Roiphe, Crafting Fictional Personas with the Language of Facebook
The article explores two young writers pursuing real-time, 'gonzo' novel writing on the persona of a fake Facebook member. The twist: their plot is based upon an actual fake Facebook account that the two created, and unfurls on both facebook and twitter.
Source: New York Times Aug. 13, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/15/fashion/15Culture.html?_r=1
ZMEMusic, Gene Simmons on P2P: Sue Every Fresh-Faced, Freckle-Faced College Kid
A quick look at Gene Simmons take on file-sharing. Notable for its defense of the intellectual property status quo despite the digitization of the performance arts.
Source: ZMEMusic
http://www.zmemusic.com/feature/news/geme-simmons-law-suit-riaa-music-industry-mipcom-convention-4242512/
Websites for Video & Media
Websites...
The World According to Monsanto
Film examining the dangers of genetically modified crops on human health and the impacts of multinational corporations on small-scale farmers.
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-world-according-to-monsanto/
Fresh: The Movie
Film examining alternatives to the industrial food production model. Advocates local farming.
http://www.freshthemovie.com
The Robot Report
A website devoted to all things robotic.
http://www.therobotreport.com
A website educating consumers on sustainability issues, encouraging people to take a local view of food production. Includes recipes for home-cooking.
http://www.sustainable.org
Website exploring the impacts of population growth on the Earth's natural resources.
http://www.ecofuture.org/populat.html
A website offering an alternative for the GDP/GPI measures of social progress.
http://www.happyplanetindex.org
A website offering simple tips for getting the most utility out of good purchased from the grocer.
http://www.lovefoodhatewaste.com
Fowl Play,
A brief documentary highlighting the inhumane treatment of factory farm animals.
http://www.fowlplaymovie.com/
Gary Hustwit, Objectified
Hustwit's film is a feature-length documentary exploring the relationship between human beings, their possessions, and designers who make them.
http://www.objectifiedfilm.com
National Geographic, The Green Index
National Geographic's green index, which aims at monitoring efforts of nations to move toward environmentally sustainable consumption.
Source: National Geographic
http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/greendex/
OK GO Videos ,
A viral video band that periodically releases content exclusively through YouTube and other social media.
http://www.okgo.net/media/videos/
Sir Ken Robinson, The Element: How Finding Your Person Changes Everything
Similar to a TED Talk, Robinson's lecture discusses the need for educational revolution, and the necessity of individuals finding their passion as a means of attaining personal success.
http://www.psfk.com/2009/03/video-sir-ken-robinson-the-element.html/print
World Economic Forum, The Sustainable Consumption Initiative
Website promoting more ecofriendly models of business development.
Source: World Economic Forum
http://www.weforum.org/en/initiatives/DrivingSustainableConsumption/index.htm
Websites for Education
Ethan Watters,
A blog promoting Ethan Watters’s new book Crazy Like Us. The blog and the book explore America’s role in “homogenizing” how other cultures diagnose and treat mental illnesses.
http://www.crazylikeus.com/
http://www.webecoist.com/,
A blog promoting and advocating all things ‘green.’ A clearing house of blog posts and essays discussing green education, design, and sustainable technology.
http://www.webecoist.com/
The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB),
A major study aimed at drawing attention to the economic benefits of biodiversity. The project discusses the costs of biodiversity loss, ecosystem degradation, and draws interdisciplinary experts to discuss policy implications and applications.
http://www.teebweb.org/
The Globalization Website of the Emory University Sociology Department,
Founded by Frank Lechner, Associate Professor of Sociology at Emory University, the website caters to students enrolled in the Department’s course on Global Change. But the website also provides information for individuals interested in globalization generally, and invites the general public to become involved in “global activism.”
http://www.sociology.emory.edu/globalization
www.isria.com,
“Your 24/7 source for diplomatic news.” A website run by information and intelligence professionals, aimed at providing the latest news and analysis of geopolitical and diplomatic events.
http://www.isria.com/
Academic Presses
Periodicals...
Environmental Finance,
Source: Environmental Finance
http://www.environmental-finance.com
Journal of the Society for Social Study of Science, Science, Technology, & Human Values
Source: Journal of the Society for Social Study of Science
http://sth.sagepub.com/
Studies in Ethics, Law, and Technology,
Source: The Berkley Electronic Press
http://www.bepress.com/selt
The Hedgehog Review ,
Critical Reflections on Contemporary Culure.
Source: The Hedgehog Review
http://www.hedgehogreview.com
Organizations & Periodicals
Websites...
Community Food Security Coalition,
Organization concerned with 'food security' issues. Aims to create a comprehensive strategy to address the perceived unsustainability and unjustness of the present food system.
http://www.foodsecurity.org/views_cfs_faq.html
Food & Water Watch,
An organization committed to ensuring the safety, accessibility, and sustainability of the world’s food and water supply.
http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/
The Ecological Farming Association,
An organization committed to the promotion and best practices of ecological farming for over thirty years.
http://www.eco-farm.org
The Global Oneness Project,
Organization aiming to explore "how the radically simple notion of interconnectedness can be lieved in our increasingly complex world."
http://www.globalonenessproject.org
The Great Turning Initiative (GT),
A project of the People-Centered Development Forum, aimed at reshaping society from the “hierarchies of domination” to an “earth community.”
http://www.thegreatturning.net/
The Group on Earth Observations (GEO),
An work group comprised of governments and non-governmental organizations, coordinating efforts to build a Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS). When complete, GEOSS will aid governments by providing a framework whereby participants can develop new projects, and “coordinate their strategies and investments.”
http://www.earthobservations.org/
The Institute for New Economic Thinking,
Founded and funded by George Soros, the INET is a nonprofit organization, dedicated to promoting changes in economic theory.
http://www.ineteconomics.org/
The International Fund for Agricultural Development,
Organization focused on addressing the food/poverty connection through agricultural development.
http://www.ifad.org
The Society for Conservation Biology (SCB). ,
A professional organization promoting scientific study of conservation and biological diversity.
http://www.conbio.org/.
Transition United States,
A nonprofit organization affiliated with the Transition Network. Aims to support 'community resilience' in a time of environmental and economic stress.
http://www.transitionus.org
United Poultry Concerns,
Organization "promoting the compassionate and respectful treatment of domestic fowl.
http://www.upc-online.org/freerange.html
www.accelerating.org,
An organization committed to disseminating information about the importance of technological acceleration and change.
http://www.accelerating.org/
Zero Waste Alliance,
A website coordinating private/non-profit efforts to reduce waste and promote recycling.
http://www.zerowaste.org
Periodicals...
http://www.rethink-dispatches.com/,
A quarterly online and print journal. The publication aims at delivering fresh content on a variety of subjects, placing special emphasis on journalistic accuracy, and the need to maintain the printed word.
http://www.rethink-dispatches.com/
The World Bank, Global Economic Prospeccts, Summer 2010
The World Bank's quarterly global economic forecast.
Source: The World Bank
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTGEP2010/Resources/FullReport-GEPSummer2010.pdf
Reports...
World Bank, World Development Report 2010: Development and Climate Change
Source: World Bank Publication, Nov. 2009
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2010/Resources/5287678-1226014527953/WDR10-Full-Text.pdf
