[This post was written by Sara Scott, Sarah Griswold, and Jamie Price, and complements previous students' analysis of the question What is Sustainability?] Environmentalism and sustainability is a very polarizing topic. There is no shortage of literature and media supporting sustainability. That being said, one has to dig a little deeper to discover literature, or [...]
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Finding value in critiques of sustainability
Posted in Critiques of Sustainability, SHP Spring 2011, Student work, What is Sustainability? on April 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
But I don’t want to!!
Posted in Critiques of Sustainability, SHP Spring 2011, Student work, What is Sustainability? on April 21, 2011 | 1 Comment »
[This post was written by Megan Rice and Angelina Peters and complements previous students' analysis of the question What is Sustainability?] This title of this post is not in reference to a toddler being told to go to bed for the hundredth time. Rather, we assert that the title should be the cry among many [...]
Learning from critiques of the history and theories of “sustainability”
Posted in Critiques of Sustainability, SHP Winter 2011, Student work, Uncovering & Evaluating Sources, What is Sustainability? on January 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
[Post written by – Noah Sharpsteen, John Stephenson, Nigel Peltier, Daniel Gray] Works Under Discussion: Ricketts, Glenn M. “The Roots of Sustainability,” Academic Questions (2010) 23: 20-53 Bonevac, Daniel. “Is Sustainability Sustainable?” Academic Questions (2010) 23: 84-101 The overarching discussion consists in the critique of the history and general concept of sustainability. Ricketts critiques sustainability [...]
Oregon Sustainability Center
Posted in Critiques of Sustainability, Implementing Sustainability, Organizations, Urban Infrastructure on January 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The proposed Oregon Sustainability Center (OSC) will be to the Living Building Challenge™ guidelines, “which would qualify it among the most sustainable buildings ever designed and constructed.” When it is built, it will be “home to Oregon’s leaders in sustainable business, government, and education. It will act as a laboratory for green technology regionally and [...]
Critiquing two critiques of “sustainability”
Posted in Critiques of Sustainability, SHP Fall 2010, Student work, What is Sustainability? on October 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
[The post below was written by students Ian C. and Brian H., with notes by James V. Hillegas] This week we looked at two articles that are critical of sustainability, “The Roots of Sustainability” by Glenn M. Ricketts, and “Is Sustainability Sustainable?” by Daniel Bonevac.[1] Both authors take strong anti-sustainability stances. Ricketts mostly criticizes sustainability [...]
In response to Bonevac, “Is Sustainability Sustainable?”
Posted in Critiques of Sustainability, SHP Summer 2010, Student work, Uncovering & Evaluating Sources, What is Sustainability? on July 5, 2010 | 4 Comments »
This post supplements On Sustainability, Summer 2010 (pt. 2 of 2) and provides reflections from two of my students this quarter on one particular article in this special issue of the journal Academic Questions. Ashley Thorne’s comment to the post Critiquing Sustainability alerted us to the publication of this special journal issue. I plan to [...]
More sources critical of sustainability
Posted in Critiques of Sustainability, SHP Summer 2010, Uncovering & Evaluating Sources, What is Sustainability? on July 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In comments to a previous SHP post (Critiquing Sustainability), Ashley Thorne brought our attention to a special issue of the journal Academic Questions devoted to “sustainability” (vol. 23, no. 1 (March 2010)). This journal is produced by the National Association of Scholars (NAS). The NAS is “an independent membership association of academics working to foster [...]
Critiquing Sustainability
Posted in Critiques of Sustainability, SHP Spring 2010, Uncovering & Evaluating Sources, What is Sustainability? on May 27, 2010 | 19 Comments »
A few weeks ago, one of my students asked if there existed any identifiable schools of thought that have put forth a world view completely outside of the idea of sustainability. This is a great question. The notion of sustainability the Brundtland Commission report articulated seems to frame the issue completely, to the extent that [...]
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