by Dr. Heather Short | Dec 14, 2023 | Uncategorized
While most of the EcoGather team kept its full focus on the meaningful responses to collapse during the past two weeks, Dr. Heather Short did double duty, keeping one eye on the happenings in Dubai… We’re grateful that she’s sharing a candid...
by Nissa Coit, Mackenzie Faber, & Lauren Zitney | Dec 8, 2023 | Uncategorized
I picked up David Graeber’s Debt: The First 5,000 Years. And what I learned was that barter was more of an anomaly, even in earlier human societies. I had learned that barter fell apart because people only need so much pottery, and when the pottery peddlers don’t have...
by Dr. Heather Short | Nov 30, 2023 | Uncategorized
A friend of mine who is involved in community engagement around local food production texted recently saying ‘I need to talk to you!’, and her tone seemed urgent. I thought that maybe they needed extra help that weekend finishing the construction of the farm kiosk (my...
by Dr. Heather Short | Nov 30, 2023 | Uncategorized
I resigned from my tenured position teaching climate science at a small college recently. It wasn’t to take a better job offer, or to use as a bargaining chip for better pay; it was an act of conscientious objection to an educational system that is preparing students...
by Dr. Heather Short | Nov 30, 2023 | Uncategorized
Our educational system ought to be built around a nuanced understanding of ecology, earth systems, and our place within them. Would we be facing the intersection of human and geologic time in the form of climate and ecological catastrophe right now if government and...
by Dr. Heather Short | Nov 30, 2023 | Uncategorized
Recently, at a friend’s birthday party, I was introduced to a person with whom I shared a common interest. When they learned that I worked in ‘climate change’, their facial expression flattened, and they said: “Oh, so you don’t get to forget about it like the rest of...
