Several new and/or previously unavailable pieces, primarily from social ecologist Brian Tokar,  have been added to our Article Archive on our website.

Brian Tokar’s articles: http://www.social-ecology.org/author/brian-tokar/

We’d also like to take this opportunity to invite alumni of the ISE’s programming to send us an update as to where you are and what you are up to. We’ve received and posted few updates already, though, unfortunately several updates were lost due to a computer crashing earlier this summer. If you had already sent us an update and don’t see it posted on the …

Lectures, readings, and workshops upcoming
The Institute for Social Ecology is is proud to announce the release of Beverly Naidus’ latest title, “Arts for Change.” Additionally, the ISE would like to call attention to several lectures, readings, and workshops featuring Beverly that are set for May and June of 2009. (Please see below)
OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE for Arts for Change
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Arts for Change overturns conventional arts pedagogy with an activist’s passion for creating art that matters
New Village Press announces its new title, Arts for Change, by Beverly Naidus, a provocative, personal look at …

Previously unavailable works by social ecologists Peter Staudenmaier, Ben Grosscup, and Karl Hardy covering a broad range of topics can now be accessed in the Institute for Social Ecology’s website Article Archive.
Staudenmaier’s pieces include his critical historical essays on anthroposophy, his participation in Left debates over Kosovo, and his involvement in a “Social Ecology vs. Participatory Economics” debate with Michael Albert, the founder of PARECON.
The two articles authored by Grosscup posit a radical critique of the response to Hurricane Katrina and the 2004 election cycle, respectively.
Hardy offers a book review …

The Institute for Social Ecology is proud to unveil its newly re-designed website! Check back often for regularly updated content in the form of articles, essays, events, and multimedia content. Please let us know (email info [at] social-ecology [dot] org) if you come across any broken links or other kinks we may have missed in developing the new site.

[Note: The following are a series of personal testimonials sent to the ISE marking the passing of Murray Bookchin.]

From Green Cities pioneer Mark Roseland, Director, Centre for Sustainable Community Development Simon Fraser University Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada :
Murray Bookchin had a profound influence on my life’s work, in the area I now call sustainable community development. He also had an enormous influence on me personally at a tender time in my own development. In 1977 I was in university, and my left-leaning professor had ordered Post-Scarcity Anarchism but we …