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Democratic Forest Trusts (PDF)in Watson, Alan; Dean, Liese; Sproull, Janet, comps. 2006. Science and stewardship to protect and sustain wilderness values: Eighth World Wilderness Congress Symposium; 2005 September 30-October 6; Anchorage, AK.Democratic trusts with leadership elected by citizen-members promise to solve many of the problems afflicting both traditional government and corporate ownership of forestlands. This article explores these issues in some depth.Complexity and the Dream of Human Control of Eco-Systems (PDF)in Watson, Alan; Dean, Liese; Sproull, Janet, comps. 2006. Science and stewardship to protect and sustain wilderness values: Eighth World Wilderness Congress Symposium; 2005 September 30-October 6; Anchorage, AK.The title captures it. I then explore the kinds of institutions compatible with both nature and the modern world that are implied from this analysis.Rethinking the Obvious: Modernity and Living Respectfully With Nature (PDF)The Trumpeter: Journal of Ecosophy, Winter, 1997.Modernity is usually considered a wrong turn in terms of respect for and sustaining the environment. I argue the reality is more complex, for modernity has freed us from personal dependence on agriculture, ended the economic value of children, radically reduced the likelihood of large scale wat, and shifted much production to intellectual rather than material capital. This partially decouples society from nature, which gives us important opportunities as well as problems.Towards an Ecocentric Political Economy (PDF)The Trumpeter, Fall, 1996.This paper begins my effort at showing how liberal modernity can be harmonized with an ecocentric perspective on our relationship with the natural world. It is a corrective to much “free market environmental” literature that sacrifices Nature to money as well as to anti-liberal attacks by well-meaning but economically naïve environmentalists.Unexpected Harmonies: Self-Organization in Liberal Modernity and Ecology (PDF)The Trumpeter, Journal of Ecosophy, 10:1, Winter 1993This is my initial paper exploring how what I term ‘evolutionary liberal’ thought can be an important means by which society and nature can be brought into greater harmony. The other Trumpeter papers build on it.Deep Ecology and Liberalism: The Greener Implications of Evolutionary Liberalism (PDF)Review of Politics, Fall, 1996.Liberal thought and deep ecology are usually regarded as mutually exclusive. But the “evolutionary” tradition offers a way to integrate the two through commonalties in the work of David Hume, Michael Polanyi, Arne Naess, and Aldo Leopold, providing a stronger foundation for liberalism while strengthening the case for an ecocentric ethic.(Related subjects: Ecology)Saving Western Towns: A Jeffersonian Green Proposal (PDF)in Writers on the Range, Karl Hess and John Baden, eds., University Press of Colorado, 1998.Developmental pressures in the rural and small town West involve three groups: long term residents, new arrivals, and environmentalists. Today their interests often conflict. This conflict is in part the outcome of institutions which prevent harmonizing competing interests. The concept of developmental trusts, both for rural regions and for small communities offers a means whereby these interests can be harmonized for the benefit of all concerned.(Related subjects: Politics)Social Ecology, Deep Ecology, and Liberalism (PDF)Critical Review, 6: 2-3, 1992.Murray Bookchin is considered a leading radical environmental theorist. However, his analysis is incapable of leading humankind towards a more respectful and sustainable relationship with the natural world. Criticisms of Bookchin from both the deep ecology and evolutionary liberal perspective complement one another, pointing the way towards a better understanding of how modernity relates to the environment.The paper as a whole offers an early discussion of issues that are more clearly addressed in later papers, particularly Deep Ecology and Liberalism (1996) and the three Trumpeter articles in 1997, 1996, and 1993. However, there are other ideas in the article which have not been developed more thoroughly elsewhere.
Oklahoma’s ‘small government’ and ‘freedom’ advocates have struck another blow at women through big government and coercion. The state legislature’s Sauronic majority passed a bill outlawing getting abortion coverage in health insurance policies. This gives most Pagans and other decent people a wonderful opportunity.
I have made this suggestion elsewhere, and hopefully it will one day be read by a person, woman most likely, who is in a position to do something about it.
NOW or some similar organization with the infrastructure to pull this off should create a national fund, fueled by private donations, to pay for abortions for women who need them and cannot afford them. The details should make it possible for contributors to put whatever limitations they wish on their donation. For example, someone should feel free to donate knowing their money will go only to fund rape and incest victims, if that is what they believe. Others could make more open ended donations.
This voluntarily maintained fund would bring enormous help to women who need it most. It would also help pry away those who would deny women the right to make this choice for themselves from the decent majority of the country on this issue. I would immediately donate, both to help those who need it and poke a stick in the eye of those who cannot mind their own business.
posted May 13, 2010 at 12:00 pm
I certainly would donate as well. Women should always be in control of their bodily function. Isn’t it odd that most of the things we call evil or wrong, always relate back to having control over one’s own body, having freedom to do as they wish without someone else trying to hurt them or force them to do things they don’t want to do. It’s about physical force, and in this case physical force manipulated through legislation and law, and it’s a blasphemy to freedom. Women in Oklahoma, and gays as well because I know of 2 stories recently there about gay beatings, should protest this and vote out the “conservative” legislators who worship their dark entity.
posted May 13, 2010 at 2:56 pm
I’m down. Someone has to do this, and I figure if I say that, I must be open to doing it myself if no one else will. Not volunteering yet, just saying. Keep me updated?
posted May 13, 2010 at 3:08 pm
I’m in. (Always in favor of something I can actually DO…)
posted May 14, 2010 at 12:09 am
I’d throw something in too.
posted May 16, 2010 at 3:26 am
I’d donate as well.