by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Nov 7, 2016 | conservation, deep ecology
Douglas Tompkins (1943-2015) was a mountaineer, Deep Ecologist, conservation activist, lover of nature, and textile entrepreneur, founder of Esprit and North Face. A footloose entrepreneur turned activist, after starting two global clothing brands, Tompkins renounced...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Oct 24, 2016 | agroecology, Bees, Biomimicry, Biophilia, Biosemiotics, Communication, Conferences, Discursive Gap, Interspecies Communication, Normal is Over, permaculture, Uncategorized
This is the first time since I moved back to California last November that I’ve been able to engage a world-class group of scholars and change-makers gathered together with the sole purpose of harmonizing human systems with natural ones. Last weekend at...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Sep 19, 2016 | animals, Bees, Biosemiotics, Communication, Discursive Gap, Interspecies Communication, Talks
I’ll be presenting October 5, 2016, 6:30-8:30pm at the California Institute of Integral Studies on the book I’m working on, Interspecies Politics. The presentation, “Ensemblist Identities and the Ecological Self” is part of my larger...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Sep 12, 2016 | Uncategorized
The Greening of Everyday Life (2016, Oxford) is a new volume edited by John M. Meyer and Jens M. Kersten. A international collection of essays, it originates from a highly productive and original 2014 Rachel Carson Center symposium by the same name. I’m happy to...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Sep 8, 2016 | Uncategorized
The Wood Wide Web is the term used to encapsulate the communication systems between trees in forests. Through the mycorrhiza (fungal networks) in the soil, trees trade and share nutrients. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8SORM4dYG8] Jennifer Frazer’s...