Tag: socio-ecology

  • Collapse Now and Avoid The Rush

    Collapse Now and Avoid The Rush

    “We use these situations either to wake ourselves up or put ourselves to sleep.” Pema Chodron (1996) When Things Fall Apart This short post is largely a personal reflection on barriers that keep us from thinking about the possibility (inevitably?) of social collapse. Unbelievably this is the first post of mine for nearly 9 months!…

  • Good Neighbours

    Good Neighbours

    I am pleased to say I had a good few ideas for this week’s short blog (again Thursday not Wednesday, sorry), but after attending an excellent webinar from the University of Guelph’s History Roundtable yesterday, i had to get a few lines down about it. As a researcher who often looks backwards to go forwards,…

  • Earth Day Every Day: Re-thinking our Relationship with the Earth

    Earth Day Every Day: Re-thinking our Relationship with the Earth

    This Earth Day let’s look deeper at the problems behind the problems in our world. What would it mean for us to begin a discussion about changing the way we perceive the world and how we act in it? This Earth Day, ask yourself what’s the story you have about the Earth? What is your…

  • Hedgerows at the first ever International Association for Landscape Ecology-North America Conference

    Hedgerows at the first ever International Association for Landscape Ecology-North America Conference

    This week the International Association for Landscape Ecology-North America (IALE_NA) is holding its first ever Annual Conference. I was originally a member of the UK branch of IALE and joined the North American chapter when it was formed last year from what was IALE-US. The conference was to be held in Toronto, and I was…

  • Hedgelaying North American Style with Dr Johann Schoepf (1783)

    Hedgelaying North American Style with Dr Johann Schoepf (1783)

    ” Hedgelayers do it in style!” may sound like an amusing bumper-sticker but it refers to one of the most fascinating features of this rural skill: that local differences exist in hedgerow management, called by the National Hedgelaying Society Regional Styles. There are more than 30 styles recorded in the UK, with more in Europe,…