David Orr and Enjoyable Sustainability
By Sarah Ganong I’ve been reflecting a lot on David Orr over the last couple of weeks, and the positives and negatives of his work that I’ve seen the Dickinson community responding to in the wake of...
View ArticleOberlin to Carlisle
By Courtney Blinkhorn David Orr brought a calming and comforting presence to the classroom setting. It was interesting to hear about the Oberlin project since Carlisle will be trying to follow a...
View ArticleMcKibben: A movement with no geographic limits
By Courtney Blinkhorn Bill McKibben had a much more soft-spoken disposition than I would have anticipated based on his powerful presence speaking at larger venues, such as the Climate change rally in...
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To Tell the Truth
By Jeff Niemitz One of the many things that Bill McKibben said during his recent visit to campus that resonated with me was the need to tell the truth about climate change. This notion was reinforced...
View ArticleMoving Online
By Erik Love Bill McKibben has not only succeeded as a thought leader for environmentalism over the past few decades, he has also pushed forward the leading edge of how activism happens in the 21st...
View ArticleMoving with McKibben
By Sarah Ganong Upon reflecting on my varying experiences with Bill McKibben over the last few years, including his recent visit to Dickinson College, a single word remains at the front of my mind:...
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Yes, all of the above
By Maria Bruno In my last class of Introduction to Biological Anthropology I took the opportunity to discuss the messages of the “Living in a World With Limits” speakers in the context of roughly 50...
View ArticleTightroping
By JJ Luceno A lot of us had expected more “fire and brimstone,” as one person put it, when Bill McKibben stepped onto our campus. What we found in our Baird classroom instead was a soft-spoken man who...
View ArticleThe Dawn of My Environmentalism: Would the climate crisis have ever happened...
By David Dean In the summertime I direct a youth program on the Crow Indian Reservation in Montana called Unity Hoops that integrates the game of basketball with a social justice-centered education. We...
View ArticleDavid Orr: Moving Inside Out
By JJ Luceno How can we turn our own individual worlds inside-out? David Orr brought a different kind of language to the climate change movement than we are used to hearing. Facts and figures played a...
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