I'm really interested in the history of the idea of environmental determinism. I don't want to be convinced that it's wrong, or that it's right, but I'd like to read something on the history of the debate, and how it's shaped various academic disciplines.

Does such a book exist, or shall I have one of you write it for me?

The Ecological Indian: Myth & History, Shepard Krech III
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Six Modern Plagues and How We Are Causing Them by Mark Jerome Walters ( Read more... )

Murray Bookchin, radical scholar, co-founder of the Institute for Social Ecology (along with one of my professors from Goddard College, Dan Chodorkoff) died on June 30th of heart failure in his home in Burlington. The Deep Ecologists will likely be celebrating; Bookchin often referred to them as eco-facists for their anti-humanist goals and ( Read more... )