Archetype in Action™ Organization - Putting Achetype to Work for the Good of Society The Rainforest Information Centre ShapeShift Council of All Beings Back to Deep Ecology Index Council of All Beings Brief Description Workshop Manual Council of All Beings for Youth Joanna Macy article 8/02 and essay from "Coming Back to Life" August 2012 Great story by Gerry Coates February 2013 "My Name is Quartz" by Sven Helland NEW - Excerpt from “Playing Around” by Richard Neville, Hutchinson 1991 Milo Clark article 1/03 Some testimonials More Links
Large-scale participatory futures systems What is Deep Ecology? Stephan Harding “Through deep experience, deep questioning and deep commitment emerges deep ecology.” In the 1960s, having read Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring, Arne Naess was moved to apply his formidable philosophical skills to understanding the ecological crisis and its resolution. Since becoming the youngest ever professor of philosophy at the University of Oslo whilst still in his twenties, Arne Naess revealed his brilliance by studying and writing extensively in many fields, including semantics, philosophy of science, and the works of Spinoza and Gandhi. But he was much more than an academic. To understand what Arne Naess meant by deep ecology it helps to imagine this place: high up, totally isolated, with commanding views of landscape down below. The word ‘ecology’ originates from the science of biology, where it is used to refer to the ways in which living things interact with each other and with their surroundings. The Deep Ecology Platform 1.
Anarcho-primitivism History[edit] Origins[edit] Anarchism started to have an ecological view mainly in the writings of American individualist anarchist and transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. In the late 19th century anarchist naturism appeared as the union of anarchist and naturist philosophies.[4][5] It mainly was important within individualist anarchist circles[2][6] in Spain,[4][5][2] France[2] and Portugal.[7] Important influences in it were Henry David Thoreau,[2] Leo Tolstoy[4] and Elisee Reclus.[8] Anarcho-naturism advocated vegetarianism, free love, nudism and an ecological world view within anarchist groups and outside them.[4][6] This tendency was strong enough as to call the attention of the CNT–FAI in Spain. Recent themes[edit] Primitivists may owe much to the Situationists and their critique of the ideas in The Society of the Spectacle and alienation from a commodity-based society. Main concepts[edit] "Anarchy is the order of the day among hunter-gatherers. Civilization and violence[edit]
Why is Deep Ecology Deep? There is no Planet B. Progress was the great myth of the industrial era, but that myth has now turned into a nightmare. Half of the world’s forests are gone, 40% of topsoils degraded, half the world’s sources of fresh water used exclusively by humans. With a current world population of 6.8 billion, the idea that each one us could enjoy the benefits of ‘development’ is not only an impossible dream, but also propaganda from the industrial world, especially the big corporations, the World Bank, the IMF, the UN, development and conservation NGOs. These organizations warn us to be ‘realistic’, but the reality they never talk about is that to offer all those billions of people a USA-standard lifestyle would require five – yes five – planets the size of the Earth. Predicting the Future Even for the affluent, it isn’t going to last. Quick fixes won’t work It isn’t that these actions may not be useful in themselves: it’s the ‘business as usual’ concept that is flawed. Deep Ecology: A Few Questions
Drifter (person) A 2004 poster announcing a large-scale dérive in London, led by a psychogeographical society In psychogeography, a dérive is an unplanned journey through a landscape, usually urban, on which the subtle aesthetic contours of the surrounding architecture and geography subconsciously direct the travellers, with the ultimate goal of encountering an entirely new and authentic experience. Situationist theorist Guy Debord defines the dérive as "a mode of experimental behavior linked to the conditions of urban society: a technique of rapid passage through varied ambiances." He also notes that "the term also designates a specific uninterrupted period of dériving History[edit] The dérive continued to be a critical concept in the theory of the Situationist International, the radical group of avant-garde artists and political theorists that succeeded the Letterist International, emerging in the 1950s. See also[edit] References[edit] External links[edit]