Rex Weyler ecology blog: Deep Green
Lisa Gibbons Fine Arts at Lisa Gibbons
Our home Cortes Island news and events site: Tidelines
Rex Weyler on "Real Wealth" at IdeaCity
Ecology: As a journalist, I am primarily focused on ecology, which I believe is the defining discourse of our age and the key challenge humanity must solve for the benefit of our progeny. Here are some important and useful ecology links:
Chevron oil pollution in Ecuador: One of the most devastating pollution crimes in history
"Chevron's Amazon Chernobyl Case moves to Canada" at Deep Green
The affected Indigenous communities in Ecuador: ChevronToxico
Ecuador's Supreme Court decision against Chevron: unanimous judgement
Summary of evidence against Chevron found by Ecuador's courts.
Chevron's bribery and fabrication of evidence in U.S. courts to evade Ecuador judgment
Some good ecology sites:
Encyclopedia of Earth: Good, reliable, scientific essays
Gregory Bateson: systems, cybernetics, patterns that connect, what endures in Nature:
Steps to an Ecology of Mind: collected essays
Mind and Nature: Systems, complexity, co-evolution
Film: Ecology of Mind, by daughter Nora Bateson; excellent summary of Bateson’s work
Small Arcs of Larger Circles, by Nora Bateson: Rethinking how to think about ecology
Arne Naess and Deep Ecology
Ecology, community and lifestyle, by Arne Naess
The Living Mountain, Arne Naess 1912-2009, Rex Weyler, Deep Green
Deep Ecology for the 21st Century: Good collection: Naess, Chellis Glendinning, Gary Snyder, Dolores LaChapelle, Paul Shepard, George Sessions, and others.
David Abram: Spell of the Sensuous and Becoming Animal
Some ecology classics:
Alice Hamilton, MD: Exploring The Dangerous Trades, 1943
Aldo Leopold, Sand County Almanac, 1949
Eugene Odum, Fundamentals of Ecology, 1954
Marston Bates, The Forest and the Sea, ecology and economy, 1960
Rachel Carson: Silent Spring, 1962
Edward Abby: Desert Solitaire, 1968
Barry Commoner, The Closing Circle, 1971
Donella Meadows, et. al., Limits to Growth, 1972
Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update, 2004
Paul Shepard: The Tender Carnivore and the Sacred Game,1973
Wendell Berry, Solving for Pattern, 1981, genuine ecological solutions.
Roderick Nash: The Rights of Nature, 1989
Joseph Tainter: The Collapse of Complex Societies, 1990
Ecological Economics:
Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, The Entropy Law and Economic Process, 1971
Herman Daly, Steady-State Economics 1977, 1991
Hazel Henderson, Paradigms in Progress, 1995
Mark Anielski, The Economics of Happiness, 2008
Howard T. Odum, Energy, Ecology & Economics, essay, 1974
with Elisabeth C. Odum, A Prosperous Way Down: Principles and Policies, 2001
Rex Weyler, Biophysical Economics, 2009
Entropy & Ecology: The Economics of Georgescu-Roegen, 2010
Ecology and Economy, Deep Green, 2010
Debt, Human Rights, and Nature, Deep Green, 2011
Ecological Overshoot:
William Catton, Overshoot, 1980, groundbreaking study
Excerpt from Overshoot: on industrialism, collapse, carrying capacity
Albert Bartlett, “Arithmetic, Population, and Energy”: video lecture, exponential growth
Essay “Reflections on Sustainability, Population Growth, and the Environment”
William Rees: Our Ecological Footprint, 1996
The Way Forward: Survival 2100, Solutions Journal, 2012.
Population Media Centre, Overdevelopment, Overpopulation, Overshoot, ed. Tom Butler
