Finally, a mainstream media reporter has the courage to bring up the elephant in the newsroom: CLIMATE CHANGE!!! In a blog post—not a front page or prime time news story, alas–ABC News reporter Bill Blakemore writes candidly of the fear that a realistic assessment of the threat of climate change must raise in anyone who [...]
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Embracing the Monster of Climate Change
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on May 14, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/05/14/embracing-the-monster-of-climate-change/
L’Chaim! This spring, let us commit ourselves to Life
Both Passover and Easter “celebrate” truly horrendous acts committed by men against men. Passover commemorates how the Jews were spared by the grace of God from the Pharaoh’s evil plan to kill all first-born sons. Easter celebrates the Resurrection of Christ after he was brutally martyred on the cross—a not-uncommon practice at the time. Of [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on April 7, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/04/07/lchaim-this-spring-let-us-commit-ourselves-to-life/
Looking catastrophe in the eye
Denial of climate change is deep and it is wide. We woke up this morning to news of record-breaking tornadoes touching down across a wide swath of the American Midwest, flattening entire townships and leaving behind multiple trails of devastation. Reading the mainstream media reports, the focus was all on the damage; very little was [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on March 3, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/03/03/looking-catastrophe-in-the-eye/
Out of the mouths of babes….
One of the most interesting aspects to me of Carol Gilligan’s research on childhood psychological development is her finding that as girls and boys mature, they lose touch with the instinctive, joyful, totally honest voice they were born with. To some extent, this is necessary. No one would want to live in a chaotic society [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on February 18, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/02/18/out-of-the-mouths-of-babes/
Coming to Voice, Saving the Planet
Yesterday acclaimed psychologist Carol Gilligan paid a visit to the class I am currently co-teaching at Bard College at Simon’s Rock with theater professor Karen Beaumont, “Human Rights, Activism and the Arts.” Gilligan’s ground-breaking book, In A Different Voice, was the first to examine the psychological development of girls. Yes, you read that right. Before [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on February 17, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/02/17/coming-to-voice-saving-the-planet/
An Unlikely Environmental Evangelist
There were two reasons, many years ago, why I ended up choosing literature as my field of study rather than environmental studies or law. I was turned off from environmental studies, my initial choice for an undergraduate major, by a scary required statistics class and no options for getting remedial help to bring my weak [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on February 12, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/02/12/an-unlikely-environmental-evangelist/
Canaries in the Roundup Ready Fields
This morning I woke up with the phrase “canaries in the coal mine” playing over and over in my mind. Maybe it’s because one of the last things I read before going to sleep last night was an article about the harmful effects of methylmercury in songbirds. Methylmercury is the organic form of mercury, a [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on January 30, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/01/30/canaries-in-the-roundup-ready-fields/
Green Teaching: What the World Needs Now
In President Obama’s speech last night, he talked a fair amount about the importance of making higher education affordable for all Americans, and about how essential a highly skilled workforce is to America’s future. I felt like I was in some kind of time warp. Wasn’t Bill Clinton talking about just the same things, almost [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on January 25, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/green-teaching-what-the-world-needs-now/
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