Re: [gep-ed] fyi

[Travis Stills]

"[Academics in the Northwest] must begin engaging with all people, not 
only the ones that live in cities or work in white-collar jobs."


Now, with the cliche name calling and reducing a serious issue to tired 
stereotypes taken care of, perhaps you might think about publishing 
something in the The Hill that presents a critical analysis of the 
alignment of coal country's laboring class with the Coal Bosses that 
serve as the villain in quite a bit of bluegrass music.


The social/environmental consciousness in bluegrass music that 
provides/reflects a working class identity and latent environmental 
values would reveal some interesting/troubling questions that do not 
place the blame at the feet of environmental advocates, such as myself, 
who have deep working class connections.  Just off a weekend of 
bluegrass, so an easy suggestion.  http://www.durangomeltdown.com/


If not willing to engage directly with bluegrass during research, the 
accepted convention in bluegrass is to blame the banjo player.


Travis Stills,

Durango, Colorado


On 4/25/2018 2:59 PM, Stacy VanDeveer wrote:

Aseem,
While I agree that the things like embedded environmentalism are good ideas and indeed 
that environmental advocates need to do a much better job at connecting climate actions 
(mitigation and adaptation) to the things many citizens care about, the rather uncritical 
treatment of "blue collar" workers in these debates (and in The Hill piece) has 
me pretty concerned.  In point of fact, US working class people continue to mostly vote 
for the candidates with stronger enviro positions. The white ones do so in lower 
proportions than the non-white ones, I'll grant. But this may be more than in incidental 
detail...
Is it up to environmentalists alone to change the discourses in places like 
West Virginia, when nearly every candidate in both political parties is mostly 
lying outright to the voters about climate, energy and other such concerns?  
Where major employers and most of the business community does that same?  Help 
me understand how environmentalists ideas about dying coal communities change 
that narrative.

And do we have any expectations at all of public servants and elected officials, in this 
regard?  This piece is published in The Hill.  It pretty clearly suggests to its 
DC/Capitol Hill readers that the failure of environmentalism/ists is responsible for the 
current state of climate and energy politics in the US. Really? This, it seems to me, is 
the most worrying (and likely empirically incorrect) argument to make to "the 
hill" -- where a lot of naked corruption is, in my view, quite a bit more 
responsible for the state of US climate politics than is environmentalists failure to 
somehow solve the problem of coal communities' decline.

In my view, "The Hill" and how it works and whose interests are well represented are the 
locus of responsibility for the state of US climate and energy politics.  I doubt TheHill wants to 
publish that argument, but I don't see how a bunch of environmentalists responding to your call for 
ideas about how to connect to blue collar workers changes anything on "the Hill."  How 
represented and supported do these blue collar workers feel, when they look at The Hill now?  I do 
fear that this sort of piece suggests that the policy makers who read the hill should blame 
environmentalists for their own failures.

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On 4/25/18, 3:44 PM, "gep-ed@googlegroups.com on behalf of as...@u.washington.edu" 
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 Colleagues:
 
 We published this today in response to Michael Bloomberg's $4.5 million

 donation to the UN Climate Change Secretariat.
 
 "Environmentalists need to reconnect with blue-collar America"

 
http://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/384856-environmentalists-need-to-reconnect-with-blue-collar-america
 
 Aseem Prakash
 
 
 
 Aseem Prakash

 Professor, Department of Political Science
 Walker Family Professor for the College of Arts and Sciences
 Founding Director, UW Center for Environmental Politics
 39 Gowen Hall, Box 353530
 University of Washington
 Seattle, WA 98195-3530
 
 http://faculty.washington.edu/aseem/

 http://depts.washington.edu/envirpol/
 
 
 
 
 
 
 



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Re: [gep-ed] fyi

[Travis Stills]

A good classroom exercise might be for students to reframe and write a 
new story that fairly represents the underlying information by replacing 
the the authors' biased speculation and discredited narrative, and 
seeing what other conclusions might emerge.


"We speculate that this silence probably reflects internal tensions  
__, which can be traced to the varying positions of union members on 
the"jobs versus environment 
" 
__narrative."


Travis


On 7/8/2019 11:24 AM, 'Tamara Ball' via gep-ed wrote:
I am in touch with Daniel Sheehan who was in D.C last week working  to 
bring the Green New Deal to California. His non-profit, the Romero 
Institute 
 
has been commissioned to do the legal work.




Tamara Ball, Ph.D.
Asst. Project Scientist UCSC
Manager, Research & Development Institute for Scientist and Engineer 
Educators
Director, Impact Designs: Engineering and Sustainability through 
Student Service
Academic Coordinator, Sustainability Studies Minor - Rachel Carson 
College.

University of California, Santa Cruz
tb...@ucsc.edu 
831 459-3104 (office)

"the best way to predict the future is to invent it"


On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 10:10 AM Stacy VanDeveer 
mailto:stacy.vandev...@umb.edu>> wrote:


It looks like AAUP and NEA – large unions to which some of us
belong – remain silent about the GND idea.  Might be time to do
some speaking up.

-sv

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Professor & Graduate Program Director

Global Governance and Human Security

McCormack Graduate School of Policy & Global Studies

www.global.umb.edu 

*From: *Gep-Ed mailto:gep-ed@googlegroups.com>> on behalf of Aseem Prakash
mailto:as...@uw.edu>>
*Reply-To: *Aseem Prakash mailto:as...@u.washington.edu>>
*Date: *Monday, July 8, 2019 at 12:56 PM
*To: *Gep-Ed mailto:gep-ed@googlegroups.com>>
*Subject: *[gep-ed] fyi

This commentary might interest some GEP members:

Labor Unions And the Green New Deal: Love, Hate, Or Indifference?



thanks,

Aseem





Aseem Prakash
Professor, Department of Political Science
Walker Family Professor for the College of Arts and Sciences
Founding Director, UW Center for Environmental Politics
University of Washington, Seattle
https://faculty.washington.edu/aseem/



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Re: [gep-ed] individualization and Mother Jones on climate scientists

[Travis Stills]

Good luck to those who are teaching, writing, researching, organizing, 
or taking direct action on climate change issues (whether through GND or 
not) with an eye toward unions and union membership.


You have your work cut out for you.

The critical examination of unions and union-busting institutions (and 
social phenomena) is important to inform the green and the blue, and I 
hope to see helpful links posted on this list.


Travis


On 7/12/2019 9:13 AM, Susanne Moser wrote:


Thanks everyone for interesting contributions to this discussion and 
the many kind responses I have gotten privately.


I wanted to offer a resource as well, somewhat countering the 
(inaccurate or at least incomplete) interpretation of my intervention 
as individualization. In that post I spoke of the personal and 
professional and systemic places we need to reflect on.


That said, there is a great need, it strikes me, to continue these 
conversations - with students, our colleagues, our administrators and 
so on, in many more places - until we raise enough collective 
awareness and momentum to get to real change. And we don't have all 
the time in the world to do that!


So, here is my resource to support that: For the last 4+ years, I have 
been part of something called the Council on the Uncertain Human 
Future , an amazing 
group of women (but many other councils since have been co-ed, so no 
restrictions there!) doing some deep talking and reckoning with where 
we're at and what we want to do about it - individually and 
collectively. There is no reason such a discussion could not be more 
narrowly defined around who we are as a profession and how we nourish 
and foster our intellectual contribution to society WHILE reducing our 
collective carbon footprint on the Earth. The format is ancient and 
pan-cultural and it works for any topic!


The council website has reading materials, a guide to facilitating 
councils - a unique equalizing format that in and of itself will be 
curative for us heady types , guiding questions (which can be 
modified, of course), and videos to give you a sense of what they're 
like. They have been conducted at universities, with students, faculty 
(physical, natural social scientists and humanists), mixed 
student/faculty/admin groups, with activists, and community members- 
they also exist now around this country and abroad.


In my experience, ongoing councils go deeper; they can easily 
accommodate the emotional impacts of working on climate change that 
Kate points to from that Mother Jones article, as well as the tensions 
we experience between what we feel we must, want and should do re: air 
travel. They can get practical, but more than anything, they offer a 
way to safely break the silence on these difficult issues.


And wouldn't that be great modeling for others?!

Best,

Susi

On 7/11/2019 5:03 PM, Kate O'NEILL wrote:

Hi all,

To chime in with Kathy Harrison’s point re APSA, I’m hoping to follow 
my predecessors as ESS chair to keep prodding this on the ISA agenda 
- I think ISA has the same problems with the Convention hotels (after 
all actually having the ability to do powerpoint presentations is 
fairly recent). We have tried it out for a few people at GEP board 
meetings over the years, in part for accessibility. But it speaks to 
all the larger problems with Convention hotels - e.g. labor practices 
and everything else that goes along with them. But solutions, such as 
bolstering regional conferences, are out there.


On the campus side, the University of California is including an 
offset program for administrative travel I believe (for the rest of 
us they’ve done it by slashing our travel budgets, did I say that out 
loud?). But again, the UC system has an ambitious climate goal being 
undermined by climate change itself - UC Berkeley has traditionally 
been an air-conditioning free zone but we’re starting to need to 
reconsider this, and quickly. In other words, there are lots of 
larger struggles going on as well at this institutional level, and 
that’s the one I see as currently most important.


It’s really difficult  as everyone points out - perhaps some of you 
have seen this piece 
 in 
Mother Jones which came out just now and is very relevant to much of 
our work, on emotional and psychological on climate scientists (some 
really interesting points on how to teach future climate scientists - 
social, natural, humanities). Hopefully we’re coming to a point where 
we know we need to buy each other up rather than knock each other 
down, and those strategies are available.


Best to all,

Kate


On Jul 11, 2019, at 9:21 AM, Linda Shi > wrote:


Hello all,

I agree with Susi that these questions are deeply personal and that 
I st

Re: [gep-ed] just a thought

[Travis Stills]

Check out the PIELC.org brochure for several days worth of potentially 
relevant presentations that were not presented in Eugene, but may be 
ready to go.


Some went ahead as webinars and may be available.  The panelists are 
part of a generous community that often provides guest lectures. I am 
confident that the student organizers would enjoy seeing their efforts 
put to good use.


Stay well,

Travis

On 3/18/2020 7:35 AM, Roopali Phadke wrote:
Thanks everyone for your thoughts today. I have one month left in my 
environmental policy course and my challenge, which I am sure is 
shared, is do I continue business as usual or lean into this crisis 
and throw out what I had planned in favor of the kinds of questions 
Susi posed.


I am also not confident that Zoom will see us through our "regular" 
schedule. On top of that, I think students will burn out after a week 
or two and just stop participating if I don't make it feel relevant. 
Our campus has given them all the option of taking the semester 
pass/fail and most of them have done well enough to just quit and 
still pass.


The idea of creating smaller working groups of students who can meet 
asynchronously most of the time, with virtual office hour support from 
me, seems the way to go. I'd love to know if others are interested in 
collectively coming up with a GEP-related COVID question /*and 
resource*/ repository.


Best,
Roopali

On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 7:22 AM promu...@susannemoser.com 
 > wrote:



Thank you, Ron, for getting my thinking in gear this morning.

I love the emerging ideas of bartering and a cooperative exchange
of speakers. You could also put your budgets together and record a
speaker who then is shared virtually.

BUT, I wonder if you all might consider going beyond form and
logistics, i.e. the HOW of teaching and speakers, to the WHAT?

Somewhere I saw a note about prioritization, but that is just
about weeding out and I doubt you all feel like you had tons of
fluff in your classes to begin with.

So, my thinking this morning went off into a whole new direction,
taking off from the "not burden shifting but burden sharing" idea
I emailed about earlier.

I mean, for a group like this one assembled on this listservs,
doesn't this crisis raise whole new (or new once again) questions
such as:
* how does a global crisis like this affect the conditions for
(international) political and policy cooperation?
* how does a pandemic positively and negatively change the
conditions and outlook for environmental policy making and
implementation?
* what does precarity mean in global environmental politics?
* what can we learn from this health-cum-economic crisis about the
weak spots in our globalized systems?
* how do we make the path to the SDGs more robust to disruption?

Oh, I am sure you all could add fascinating other questions and
all of a sudden the contents of your classes gains a whole new
level of immediacy and relevance. Students will be way more
engaged because everyone's brains are already in this crisis. And
because none of us have the answer to this, you may use zoom
classes and discussion fora and assignments as collective thinking
and learning events than just trying to figure out "delivery
mechanisms."

Heck, universities could once again be places for true
intellectualism and serve society well in this difficult time.

Ok, enough from me in one day. But this was fun! I can imagine so
many variants for any number of classes. The toilet paper case
study will be an utterly real teaching device for oh so many things...

Susi

Sent from tiny phone. Forgive typos


 Original message 
From: Ronald Mitchell mailto:rmitc...@uoregon.edu>>
Date: 3/17/20 11:31 PM (GMT-05:00)
To: GEPED mailto:gep-ed@googlegroups.com>>
Subject: [gep-ed] just a thought

One other thought on the whole online learning thing – Zoom or
other apps for streaming lectures might be an excellent,
low-carbon way to bring in guest speakers.  We could each “trade”
guest lectures on our well-known subjects (the lectures we can
give in our sleep), reducing workload of developing lectures for
us while giving our students better content.

I am not offering to coordinate this – just a suggestion in case
anyone thinks it’s a good idea.

Ron

Ronald Mitchell, Professor

Department of Political Science and Program in Environmental Studies

University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1284

rmitc...@uoregon.edu 

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Re: [EXTERNAL] [gep-ed] Best environmental alternative to Twitter

[Travis Stills]

Also, any thoughts on: https://counter.social/ ?

https://twitter.com/hashtag/CounterSocial?src=hashtag_click

On 11/11/2022 8:01 AM, Dale W Jamieson wrote:
i'm a little surprised no one mentioned mastodon. several academic 
units that i'm part of are creating accounts. does anyone have 
thoughts about it?

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Director, Center for Environmental and Animal Protection
Affiliated Professor of Law. Medical Ethics, and Bioethics
Professor of Environmental Studies and Philosophy Emeritus
New York University
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govern it, you realize that the only way that you can reconcile this 
vale of suffering … to sanity is to glue your soul to 
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On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 2:15 PM 'Shannon Kathryn Orr' via gep-ed 
 wrote:


I just taught a grad class on social media last week. Here’s a
quick summary of my class! I’m sure others will have other
thoughts based on their experiences.

Twitter – easy to engage the broader public, but also lots of
space for trolls. Good for engaging in conversations and debates.
And it is easy to share content made by others. Works well with
images, text and links.

Instagram – skews to a much younger demographic. Instagram is
really about original content – sharing of posts is not a thing
(although you can with the story feature), and you can’t post
clickable links in posts. So it is great for sharing content more
intended for passive scrolling. Comments are possible, but in
terms of engagement, there is much less compared to other social
media.

Facebook – very hard now to develop a Facebook page from scratch
and get lots of followers unless you already have a known
audience. But, Facebook groups are very active and a great way to
find people who are interested in similar issues. Very easy to
share images, text and links.

LinkedIn – easy to write and share posts, the expectation of the
site though is professional content. Not a lot of engagement and
debate or resharing of posts.

Snapchat – younger and much more about person to person
communication.

Shannon

Bowling Green State University



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Professor Political Science Department

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Director Falcon Food and Resource Community/Falcon Food Pantry

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*From:* gep-ed@googlegroups.com  *On
Behalf Of *Charles Chester
*Sent:* Thursday, November 10, 2022 1:56 PM
*To:* gep-ed 
*Subject:* [EXTERNAL] [gep-ed] Best environmental alternative to
Twitter

Hi all,

Apologies if this has been asked before…but as a social media
Neanderthal, I’m wondering what might be the most
important/visible/ethically-unchallenged social media platform for
the "environmental community" writ large.

At least in terms of visibility, I’m assuming it’s Twitter
because, well, it’s just been Twitter for everything. Given recent
developments, or one might say “regressions,” seems like there’s
plenty of justifications to be looking for alternatives…and a
quick search came up a large number of alternatives out there….

Happy to take answers direct to me and I'll collate them for the list.

Additional apologies if my question is too similar to: “What’s the
best Internet search engine—Google??”

Justifiable answer: "No, it’s Altavista, you medeival Yahoo….”

Thanks,

Charlie Chester

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