Check out the following link:
http://thebreakthrough.org/PDF/Death_of_Environmentalism.pdf
This piece is from 2004 but I think it’s as relevant (if not more so) today. I’m curious to hear your thoughts on this … how the ideas resonate with those of us working on environmental and community issues here in the Sacramento region … whether you feel we have an obligation, given the losses and failures in recent years, to rethink our approach … what kinds of organizing models might actually work in the communities in our area … and anything else this essay inspires.
Please also think and write about what we might do with Sacramento Earth Day to facilitate the opening up of our work — in all its iterations — so that we might come to experience the “environment” not as a “thing” that “environmentalists” need to protect but as the sum total of the world, in all its complexity and messiness.
Graham
I want to do green architecture in my community but my clients walk away:-(. We have to generate a global awareness of the fearful outcome.
We need to cultivate our environment instead of “taking from it” or said differently, we would be better off if we played with our environment as if it were a team member.
Taking the environment for granted —or anything else for that matter— is a disturbing way to go about life.