Sublime

Green is very present in postmodern academic thinking, in nonprofits, and among social workers and community activists.

quagmire.

The global ‘Eco-City Movement’ and the work of eco-city pioneer Richard Register, who founded ‘Ecocity Builders’ in 1992, have helped to develop the ‘International Ecocity Framework and Standards (IEFS)’.

The conservationists who are merely organized function as specialists who have lost sight of basic connections.

But then, thanks to reading Blessed Unrest by Paul Hawken, I came to realise that the hundreds of thousands of environmental organisations around the world effectively operate as a massive decentralised religion, each worshipping the same deity that has been venerated by indigenous peoples for so long: Mother Earth.

I like how cultural historian Thomas Berry put it when he said “We are in between stories.” The Old Stories, as I see them, include those scripted by colonialism, capitalism, ableism, white supremacy, nationalism, and cis-heteropatriarchy. All require us to believe in the inherent, God-given superiority of some groups over others. They include

This is not our world with trees in it. It’s a world of trees, where humans have just arrived.

His farewell to a species turning from animal into data.