14
Oct
Joe Bish – Deep Ecology Collaboratory Presenter
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“Imagine if your job required daily immersion in news articles and reports that demonstrated the demise of the living world. Women dying unnecessarily in childbirth. Climate change causing massive food shortages. Parents giving their 10-year-old girls as child brides in exchange for livestock. Sound depressing? It can be. However, Joe Bish reads, analyzes, aggregates, and... Read More
12
Oct
Protest Song Songwriting Contest Winners
Announcing the winners of our Protest Song Songwriting Contest! Maria Woodson took the top $1,000 prize with her beautiful song “Daffodils,” inspired by a Dorothy Wadsworth poem and journal. Bloom’s “Earth Child” and Noach Tangeras’s “Buffalo Don’t Roam” were the runners up, and each receive a $200 prize. Thank you... Read More
30
Sep
Derrick Jensen Deep Ecology Collaboratory Presenter
Derrick Jensen is a radical environmentalist who likes to remind us that our word radical is derived from the Latin radicalis, which meant “of relating to a root”. Examining the roots of our global environmental crisis has been one of the tasks of the Deep Ecology movement and an inspiration for Deep Green Resistance. One... Read More
09
Sep
Life’s Too Short Environmental Film Festival
Join us for the Life’s Too Short Environmental Film Festival Six short films about ordinary people saving extraordinary places Special speakers September 21 – 7:00 pm – Palm Theatre A benefit for Ecologistics, Inc. and the SLO International Film Festival Admission: Your donation Program 62 Years Filmmaker: Logan Bockrath Ken Brower, son of David Brower, revisits... Read More
06
Sep
Fiscal Sponsorship – Starting Nonprofits through Collaboration
Do you have a new program you want to launch and pilot before investing time and resources into a formal nonprofit incorporation? Are you a for-profit corporation that wants to start a charitable program? Are you an established organization interested in supporting the expansion of services through partnership? Fiscal sponsorship is an IRS-accepted way of... Read More
01
Sep
Jerry Mander Deep Ecology Collaboratory Presenter
Many people know of the David Brower-inspired Sierra Club ads that appeared in the New York Times during the 1960s galvanizing citizens to take action to prevent a dam from being built in the Grand Canyon. One of these ads had the now-famous opening: SHOULD WE ALSO FLOOD THE SISTINE CHAPEL SO TOURISTS CAN GET... Read More
30
Aug
Introducing Pay-What-You-Can Collaboratory Registration
At Ecologistics, we feel everyone should have a chance to lend their voice to the Deep Ecology Collaboratory regardless of her or his financial situation. We feel this so strongly, we have decided to underwrite a large part of the event and are introducing Pay-What-You-Can registration. Once-in-a-Lifetime Opportunity During the Deep Ecology Collaboratory, you will have a... Read More
22
Aug
Stephanie Mills – Restoring and Reinhabiting Damaged Land
I am just finishing up reading In Service of the Wild, by Stephanie Mills. I find it absolutely captivating. She makes a compelling case for “Restoring and Reinhabiting Damaged Land”. Ms. Mills may be best known for her collection of essays, Tough Little Beauties, and I have this is on my “to read” list. Having heard many great teachers explain that humans... Read More
18
Aug
Dave Foreman Deep Ecology Collaboratory Presenter
While attending the Douglas Tompkins memorial “Wild Legacy” in San Francisco last January, my colleagues Stacey Hunt, Michael Jencks, and I had the opportunity to speak with Dave Foreman and invite him to the Deep Ecology conference that we were planning. We took the opportunity to praise his latest book Man Swarm: How Overpopulation is... Read More
15
Aug
National Environmental Leaders Converge on SLO
If you are concerned about the health of Earth’s biosphere and the threats to biodiversity, and want to take action to move things in a better direction, consider attending a 3-day environmental conference sponsored by Ecologistics, Inc.: The Deep Ecology Collaboratory. Some of the greatest voices in the conservation movement will be on hand to... Read More