Re: Playing God in the Garden New York Times Article(Part 1)
Bunny, this is a great article but it's cut off at the end. Can you send the rest? --E. At 07:56 AM 11/5/98 +0800, bunny wrote: The New York Times Sunday Magazine October 25, 1998 "Playing God in the Garden" by Michael Pollan Planting Today I planted something new in my vegetable garden -- something very new, as a matter of fact. It's a potato called the New Leaf Superior, which has been genetically engineered -- by Monsanto, the chemical giant recently turned "life sciences" giant -- to produce its own insecticide. This it can do in every cell of every leaf, stem, flower, root and (here's the creepy part) spud. The scourge of potatoes has always been the Colorado potato beetle, a handsome and voracious insect that can pick a plant clean of its leaves virtually overnight. Any Colorado potato beetle that takes so much as a nibble of my New Leafs will supposedly keel over and die, its digestive tract pulped, in effect, by the bacterial toxin manufactured in the leaves of these otherwise ordinary Superiors. (Superiors are the thin-skinned white spuds sold fresh in the supermarket.) You're probably wondering if I plan to eat these potatoes, or serve them to my family. That's still up in the air; it's only the first week of May, and harvest is a few months off. Certainly my New Leafs are aptly named. They're part of a new class of crop plants that is rapidly changing the American food chain. This year, the fourth year that genetically altered seed has been on the market, some 45 million acres of American farmland have been planted with biotech crops, most of it corn, soybeans, cotton and potatoes that have been engineered to either produce their own pesticides or withstand herbicides. Though Americans have already begun to eat genetically engineered potatoes, corn and soybeans, industry research confirms what my own informal surveys suggest: hardly any of us knows it. The reason is not hard to find. The biotech industry, with the concurrence of the Food and Drug Administration, has decided we don't need to know it, so biotech foods carry no identifying labels. In a dazzling feat of positioning, the industry has succeeded in depicting these plants simultaneously as the linchpins of a biological revolution -- part of a "new agricultural paradigm" that will make farming more sustainable, feed the world and improve health and nutrition -- and, oddly enough, as the same old stuff, at least so far as those of us at the eating end of the food chain should be concerned. This convenient version of reality has been roundly rejected by both consumers and farmers across the Atlantic. Last summer, biotech food emerged as the most explosive environmental issue in Europe. Protesters have destroyed dozens of field trials of the very same "frankenplants" (as they are sometimes called) that we Americans are already serving for dinner, and throughout Europe the public has demanded that biotech food be labeled in the market. By growing my own transgenic crop -- and talking with scientists and farmers involved with biotech -- I hoped to discover which of us was crazy. Are the Europeans overreacting, or is it possible that we've been underreacting to genetically engineered food? After digging two shallow trenches in my garden and lining them with compost, I untied the purple mesh bag of seed potatoes that Monsanto had sent and opened up the Grower Guide tied around its neck. (Potatoes, you may recall from kindergarten experiments, are grown not from seed but from the eyes of other potatoes.) The guide put me in mind not so much of planting potatoes as booting up a new software release. By "opening and using this product," the card stated, I was now "licensed" to grow these potatoes, but only for a single generation; the crop I would water and tend and harvest was mine, yet also not mine. That is, the potatoes I will harvest come August are mine to eat or sell, but their genes remain the intellectual property of Monsanto, protected under numerous United States patents, including Nos. 5,196,525, 5,164,316, 5,322,938 and 5,352,605. Were I to save even one of them to plant next year --something I've routinely done with potatoes in the past -- I would be breaking Federal law. The small print in the Grower Guide also brought the news that my potato plants were themselves a pesticide, registered with the Environmental Protection Agency. If proof were needed that the intricate industrial food chain that begins with seeds and ends on our dinner plates is in the throes of profound change, the small print that accompanied my New Leaf will do. That food chain has been unrivaled for its productivity -- on average, a single American farmer today grows enough food each year to feed 100 people. But this accomplishment has come at a price. The modern industrial farmer cannot achieve such yields without enormous amounts of chemical fertilizer, pesticide, machinery and fuel, a set of capital-intensive inputs,
personal conversations
I would like to request that Angela (ecolady), and everyone in conversation with her, take it OFF the list. I, for one, am very tired of the harangues, which have become extremely repetitious. Please correspond with each other privately, and leave the list to those of us who don't care about your religious beliefs. --E.M. ~~~ Elizabeth L. MacNabb, PhD Service Learning, Career Development Center Richmond Hall, UR, Richmond, VA 23173 phone 804-2898686, fax 804-287-6465 From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Nov 10 07:59:03 1998 From: "Kimberly Brett" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Ind. school evacuated after anthrax threat Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 08:59:21 -0600 Ind. school evacuated after anthrax threat INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - A grade school was evacuated Monday after a letter purporting to contain anthrax spores was opened in the school office, officials said. Six people in the office at St. Matthew's Roman Catholic School where the letter was opened were decontaminated as a safeguard, the Washington Township Fire Department said. The 500 students in the school were removed as a precaution and taken to a nearby high school. Officials said the letter, sent from Texas, simply said those reading it had been exposed to anthrax. Similar threats were received Oct. 30 by abortion clinics in Indianapolis and several other cities in four states. See full story http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2557024137-e63
RE: hypocrites?/convictions/spirit/believe whatever/perception/That's life!
Sarah, Brava! I agree wholeheartedly, and thanks for the tip on filtering Angela's mail. I will do the same. --E. At 04:40 PM 12/7/98 -0500, sarah clifton wrote: I grew tired some time ago of opening my mailbox everyday to a flood of religious fanatisism. I personally set up my inbox to redirect all messages from [EMAIL PROTECTED] into a seperate folder so that they would not bog me down and anger me. However, those of you who engage her in this continue to make this the content of the list rather than discussing real ecofeminist issues. I am not advocating censorship nor kicking anybody off of the list. However, i am tired of this and i don't want to be forced to take my name off of this because of this discussion. there are real issues we can talk about without letting our anger get the best of us. May I suggest that everyone get back on track. I feel that the best way to do this is to simply NOT OPEN ANY MAIL FROM ANGELA. This way there will be no impetus to reply. She obviously doesn't belong here but she shouldn't chase us away either. Call me a bitch if you will, but i have rights here, too. in goddess spirit, sarah ~~~ Elizabeth L. MacNabb, PhD Service Learning, Career Development Center Richmond Hall, UR, Richmond, VA 23173 phone 804-289-8686, fax 804-287-6465
Re: rights - persecution/try to understand already!
I am disturbed by this. Please clarify your reason for sending it to the ecofem list. --E.M. At 11:15 PM 12/9/98 EST, you wrote: The Posture for a Politically Correct Prayer When Pastor Joe Wright was asked to open the new session of the Kansas Senate, everyone was expecting the usual politically correct generalities. But what they heard was a stirring prayer, passionately calling our country to repentance and righteousness. The response was immediate. In six short weeks more than 5,000 phone calls were logged, with only 47 of those calls responding negatively. Paul Harvey aired Pastor Joe wright's prayer on the radio and received a larger response to the program than nay other program Paul Harvey has ever aired. International requests for copies of the prayer from, India, Africa, Korea and other countries are still pouring in. The prayer was prayed as follows: "Heavenly Father, we come beofre You today to ask your forgiveness and seek Your direction and guidance, we know Your Word says, 'Woe on those who call evil good'. but that's exactly what e have done. We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and inverted our own values. We confess that: We have ridiculed the absolute truth of Your Word and called it pluralism; We have worshipped other gods and called it multi-culturalism; We have endorsed perversion at home and in public office and called it an alternative lifestyle; We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery; We have neglected the needy and called it self-preservation; We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare; We havekilled our unborn and called it choice; We have hated those in favor of abortion, wieldedsigns at them in anger and called it justifiable; We have neglected to dicipline our children and called it building self- esteem; We have abused power and called it political savvy; We have coveted our neighbor's possessions and called it ambition; We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression; We haveridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment. Search us, O God, and know our hearts today; try us and see it there be some wicked way in us; cleanse us from every sin and set us free. Guide and bless the men and women who have been sent by the people to govern us. Grant them Your wisdom to rule and may their decisions direct us to the center of Your will. I ask it in the name of Your Son, the Living Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. *** *** Reguardless of what faith, color, race and argurer, perhaps any of us can garner respect for ALL. I only read, one time I gave an http:// and moved on to more important things for the children in this country that dont seem to have enough adults that really care about the classroom. In the last of October, I had a brain scan. when I returned to the Drs office the next time he smiled a smill I have never seen from a person and said "Mary, I want you to know, "You have a very good brain." Now I am telling all others that they cant talk to me until they have had their scan ran and it has to come to my level or above. I am a 71 1/2 year-young and very involved in many subjects in our everyday lives. I dont demonstrate, scream, accuse, be impolite to anyone but an in the process of placing a gag order on a man that for some reason has to blast me at every chance he gets. I feel he is attempting to get me to react. I sure will but not in the way he wants, in front of others. We belong to some of the same groups and too many of my friends are upset over his actions. However they do stay silent and dont respond, GOOD. I have been behind the Iron Curtain 3 times. all three to Yugoslavia, first time 1958-9, then 12 years ago. How many of you have been to a country such as this? My values, I am sure are different because of what I have witnessed. NO, I Never want to see it in this country. Perhaps some will understand that we are all RICH, even our poorest residents in this country. Why does everything have to be a fight between us? Keep it up we sure wont be able to look ourselves in a mirror, there wont be one. Goodnight Mary P. ~~~ Elizabeth L. MacNabb, PhD Service Learning, Career Development Center Richmond Hall, UR, Richmond, VA 23173 phone 804-289-8686, fax 804-287-6465
Public forum re. the Clinton Debacle
Someone asked recently if there was a way we could all ban together to get our voices heard in protest against what's going on in Washington. Below is a letter sent me by a group called "Move On." Those interested should go to the website at http://www.moveon.org Congressional leadership is determined to impeach the President. This is not in the best interests of our country. We face real economic and foreign policy challenges. A besieged President and distracted Congress will not address these issues. I'm participating in an Internet campaign to tell our representatives that we've had enough. The President should receive censure from the Congress and we should all move on. It's time for the public interest to come first, and for our representatives to show real leadership. Will you help? Just go to http://www.moveon.org to sign the petition and take action. It only takes a minute. And then if you send a message on to your friends and colleagues, the ball will keep rolling. It's up to us. Please feel free to forward this message to anyone you think would be interested. Don't send this message indiscriminately. Spam hurts the campaign. --E.M. ~~~ Elizabeth L. MacNabb, PhD [EMAIL PROTECTED] Service Learning, Career Development Center Richmond Hall, UR, Richmond, VA 23173 phone 804-289-8686, fax 804-287-6465
Re: Civil Action
I'd sign a letter, Donna. --E. At 10:19 PM 1/12/99 -0700, you wrote: To Ecofem, Having recently researched the market and tracking down manufacturers for alternative products to timber as part of the Zero-cut campaign... finding straw board and bales a respectable natural alternative, and having just been forced to sit through the most needless requisite course of my college career (Film Art) where the bottom line was weekly pronounced in billions of dollars worth of entertainment, and being tested on how many millions are spent in production of same, and since this class and research having this recurrent dream of writing a letter and asking Robert Redford (being environmentally conscientious in the public eye) with his new Sundance Studios to use alternative fiber for set design and paper stock thinking that all it takes is one of the big boys of the movie-making industry, Copolla or Scorsesse, just one to make the move... surely the rest will follow. What I've found is that there are maybe three viable strawboard business in the United States, I've spoken to many upstarts who have been set up by their individual states only to find lack of interest or awareness (Pacific Gold Board made of rice straw in Redding, California and Golden Ag made of wheat straw in the state of Washington) worried about how they are going to keep their doors open. Boise Idaho Wheat Growers are pursuing this business, as is one of our local Tribes, the Coeur d'Alene (using blue grass that all farmers here say they must burn, causing untold angst one month out of every year in this region). Texas, Louisiana, Dakota that's about all that I can find for viable producers of this alternative to date. The newest manufactures are dedicated and working hard to stay in business, not that business is right but eco-friendly business does need a boost in circulation. Is anyone interested in pursuing this with me? Does anyone have connections to contractors, developers, or big name business who would consider making the switch? Another goal I have while still alive is to see all federal institutions in the US use 100% recycled or agrifiber paperstock, and use it in daily correspondence... my university shoved kenaf out the door last semester complaining of cost, hemp is illegal to these folks. As of today the University of Idaho is using 100% virgin tree bleached paper. A travesty, but we're working on it, hurdles with our biggest donor being Potlatch Paper Corp. Is anyone interested in pursuing these things? Adding your name to a letter to Sundance Studios insisting he, the Robert and all his friends, utilize the latest alternatives to deforestation and dioxins? These are land use issues as well, being pertinent to the Mother of all conventions (Mark Humbly quote) UN Earth Summit and the upcoming ag/deforestation/dessertification conference in Melbourne, AZ. please let me know what you think of these meanderings, /donna ~~~ Elizabeth L. MacNabb, PhD [EMAIL PROTECTED] Service Learning, Career Development Center Richmond Hall, UR, Richmond, VA 23173 phone 804-289-8686, fax 804-287-6465
women in Afghanistan-- please pass it on
Barbosa, New London, CT 2) Melissa J. Buckheit Waltham, MA 3) Olga Broumas, Brewster, MA 4) Heather Feldman, Waltham, MA 5) Robert L. Hawkins, Waltham, MA 6) Ann Vollmann Bible, Cambridge, MA 7) Joy Garnett, New York, NY 8) Cynthia Pannucci, New York, NY 9) Ken Knowlton, Merrimack NH 10) Eric Somers, Poughkeepsie, NY 11) Faith Watson, Philadelphia, PA 12) Sherry Branch, Orlando, Fl 13) Susie Ellis, Strasburg, VA 14) Christine Jurzykowski, TX 15) Marion Hunt-Badiner, CA 16) Riane Eisler, CA 17) Dagmar Celeste,OH 18 and 19) Linda Krasienko and Patti Verde, Westlake, OH 20)Anita C. Hill, St. Paul, MN 21) Peggy Yingst, Mentone, CA 22)Laurie Line, El Cajon, CA 23)Barbara D'Aversa, La Mesa, CA 24) Erin Alcaraz, Phx, AZ 25) Erin Thomas Palmeter, San Diego, CA 26) Karen Van Dyke, San Diego, CA 27) Robert MacPhee, San Diego, CA 28. Edna Smith, Springfield, MO 29) Julie A. Donnelly, Columbia, MO 30) Susan Walter, Sonora, CA 31) Susan M. Harrison, Clements, CA 32) William E. Harrison, Clements, CA 33 34) Robert and Johnette Orpinela, Stockton, CA 35) Kenneth L. Beauchamp, Stockton CA 36 37) Gail Erwin Bob Schuldheisz, Galt, CA 38) Margo Leslie, Berkeley, California 39) Sara Gratiot, Marina, CA 40) Marguerite Campbell, Monterey, CA 41) Adrienne Paull, Austin, TX 42) Amy Overslaugh, Austin, TX 43) Tina Tabler, Austin, TX 44) LeeAnn Maxwell-McGlynn, Bedminster, NJ 45) Mary L. Robertson, North Brunswick, NJ 46) Laura W. Walters, Blacksburg, VA 47) Anne Meehan, Richmond, VA 48) Elizabeth MacNabb, Richmond, VA 49) 50) ~~~ Elizabeth L. MacNabb, PhD [EMAIL PROTECTED] Service Learning, Career Development Center Richmond Hall, UR, Richmond, VA 23173 phone 804-289-8686, fax 804-287-6465
Re: Logical Fallacy Alert
I agree. It's getting rather time-consuming to read through your mail, joe and unleesh, as I search for ecofem news. Would you mind? --E.M. At 08:57 PM 1/23/99 -0600, Kimberly Brett wrote: Is it possible that Joe and Unleesh take this exchange into private email correspondence? -- From: joe dees [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: STUDIES IN WOMEN AND ENVIRONMENT [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Logical Fallacy Alert Date: Saturday, January 23, 1999 9:23 PM In a message dated 1/23/99 12:03:09 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ANIMALS AREN'T PEOPLE ANIMALS AREN'T PEOPLE ANIMALS AREN'T PEOPLE Keep Brainwashing Yourself, Keep Brainwashing Yourself, Keep Brainwashing Yourself all of this is curious because of course PEOPLE ARE ANIMALS, PEOPLE ARE ANIMALS, PEOPLE ARE ANIMALS there's no strict dividing line between humanimals and other animals. I will stop calling nonhuman animals "people" when we stop applying that term of privilege to the beast called Homo Sapiens Sapiens. Logical Fallacy Alert!!! All birds may be animals without all animals being birds, just like all humans may be animals without all animals being human. Some humans, however, are obviously birdbrained. Joe E. Dees Poet, Pagan, Philosopher Access your e-mail anywhere, at any time. Get your FREE BellSouth Web Mail account today! http://webmail.bellsouth.net ~~~ Elizabeth L. MacNabb, PhD [EMAIL PROTECTED] Service Learning, Career Development Center Richmond Hall, UR, Richmond, VA 23173 phone 804-289-8686, fax 804-287-6465
Re: Agenda for healing the world
Jane, I like it very much. I do have a small objection to #4, in that fertility is not a universal value. I think healing between genders is a value in itself. --E. 4. To promote healing between the genders, as such healing is the basis of fertility. ~~~ Elizabeth L. MacNabb, PhD [EMAIL PROTECTED] Service Learning, Career Development Center Richmond Hall, UR, Richmond, VA 23173 phone 804-289-8686, fax 804-287-6465
Re: FILTERED christiangallery.com complaint 990204-3027652
Just thought others on the ecofem list might want to see the response I got when I asked Mindspring not to continue supporting the abortion page. --E. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:24:49 -0500 (EST) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FILTERED christiangallery.com complaint 990204-3027652 * To assist internal tracking, your report has been assigned the following issue identification number: 990204-3027652. Please include this number in the "Subject:" of any subsequent e-mail regarding this issue. * PLEASE READ!!! This is an AUTO-REPLY message in response to an email appearing to have originated from your address and delivered to one of the mail administration addresses, most likely concerning a net-abuse issue. This message is _not_ intended as a response to your report, but it does contain a wealth of information regarding net-abuse issues and other common e-mail problems. Due to the volume of email that can sometimes occur, we may not be able to respond individually to each message sent to this address, and will likely only do so when additional information is required. Mindspring does not condone and will not permit abusive behavior by its users. Though no summary judgments are made, all reports we receive are investigated and action is taken when and where it is appropriate. The Mindspring AUP/TOS can be found at: http://www.mindspring.com/aboutms/policy.html Now on to the good stuff... Thanks for writing in! For future reference, here are items that will help us help you better: - Complete Header information... - How to Complain to Providers about Spam... - IRC issues and complaints... - USENET issues and complaints... - Useful links to other web sites... o WE NEED *COMPLETE* HEADERS!!! When sending in complaints regarding email and news reports please make sure that you include *complete* header information. Abbreviated headers are often bogus and provide us with little information to work with. You can learn more about viewing and interpreting email headers at the following web page(s): http://help.mindspring.com/features/emailheaders/index.htm http://help.mindspring.com/features/emailheaders/extended.htm o We primarily deal with SPAM that originated from within the Mindspring network. If you got some SPAM that did not originate from Mindspring, please send your report/complaint to the originating ISP or network. A good tutorial on "How to Complain to Providers about Spam" to another ISP is avialble from: http://spam.abuse.net/spam/howtocomplain.html o If you have an issue or complaint with another user(s) behavior on the IRC network, we need the following information before ANY action can be taken: 1.) The /whois information for the user.* 2.) Logs of the activity. (Forged logs will be ignored) 3.) A valid timestamp and what time-zone you are in. * If the /whois information indicates that the offender IS NOT a Mindspring customer, please direct your complaints to the originating network or ISP. o When reporting newsgroup abuse, please remember that newsgroups are a public forum, and you have to choose to read a particular post. We encourage you NOT to read the posts of anyone with whom you know you will disagree. To this end, we recommend the use of a newsreader that supports kill-filters. This will allow you to filter your newsreading so that you need never see a post from a particular author or with a particular subject, etc. This does not mean that SPAM and other news group abuse should not be reported, only that MindSpring will not involve itself in personal disputes and differences of opinion. You may wish to visit the following URL's: http://www.lava.net/~dewilson/writing/flame.retardant.html http://www.lava.net/~dewilson/asd/trolls.html While these were written with the newsgroup alt.support.depression in mind, they contain some _very_ useful suggestions for dealing with flames trolls. o Here are some other handy links for you: "Figuring Out Fake E-mail News Posts" (AKA "The Spam FAQ") Information on deciphering the origins of unwanted e-mail... http://www.faqs.org/faqs/net-abuse-faq/spam-faq/index.html Spam: Where to Complain About Frauds Scams: http://www.elsop.com/wrc/complain.htm Support FREE The Forum for Responsible and Ethical E-mail http://www.ybecker.net Join CAUCE! We're members,
Re: Help
Does anybody know of any Goddesses / Feminists / Books that we could use? If anybody has any ideas PLEASE let me know. Thank you for your time. Laura, my favorite goddess is Inanna, the middle eastern Queen of Heaven 5000-10,000 years ago. I don't know how iher name was originally pronounced, but in my mind, I hear it as "in-NAH-nuh." Your band might find it interesting that one of the ways Inanna was worshipped was through an act of public sex between the head priestess who represented Inanna to the people, and a man of her choosing, each spring. This ritual has been called the "sacred marriage" by some scholars (inappropriately, in my opinion, but that's another treatise), and is believed to have been practiced for millenia before the advent of patriarchal religions. (Easter is actually an Anglo-Saxon relic of this ritual.) Some also believe that people who worshipped Inanna worshipped orgasm as a divine gift and a way of communicating with the goddess. (In some ancient sacred stories about a king named Gilgamesh, the priestess has to teach one man how to give her sexual pleasure before he can become HUMAN. He's like this "wild man" who runs with the animals before the six-day, seven-night ritual of humanizing sex with this priestess.) There are some pretty sexy sacred marriage poems that have survived for over 5000 years, translated quite artistically in a book called *Inanna*. I believe it's translated by Noah Kramer and Diane Wolkstein, but I could be mistaken about the authors. You might want to check it out. Good luck with your band, --E. ~~~ Elizabeth L. MacNabb, PhD [EMAIL PROTECTED] Service Learning, Career Development Center Richmond Hall, UR, Richmond, VA 23173 phone 804-289-8686, fax 804-287-6465
Re: Report: Wars have roots in roots/Ore. tanker wreckage may be towed
Nice to know somebody's finally figuring out there's a connection between deprivation and war. --E.M. At 08:06 PM 2/16/99 -0600, Kimberly Brett wrote: Report: Wars have roots in roots WASHINGTON (AP) - Look for the roots of war literally in the roots of agriculture, suggests a report financed by an organization seeking to build public understanding of the importance of farming. The study released Tuesday draws a link between poor agriculture and the spread of regional and internal wars. It estimates that 4 million people have died in post-Cold War conflicts, 90% of them civilians, and points to India as a country where conflicts have been avoided to a degree with agricultural successes. "This report demonstrates that providing developing world farmers with the fruits of research not only helps to end hunger, but can also contribute to ending the increasingly vicious warfare that the world has seen during the 1990s," said Dr. Indra de Soysa, co-author of the study conducted for Future Harvest. See full story http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558474332-980 Ore. tanker wreckage may be towed COOS BAY, Ore. (AP) - The broken bow of a grounded freighter appears headed for a deep and watery grave as authorities try to prevent it from leaking more fuel along the coast. The latest plan calls for a tug to pull the 440-foot front section of the New Carissa off the beach as early as Wednesday and haul it about 200 miles offshore, where it will be sunk. The journey was expected to take at least five days. The target area is waters that are about 9,000 feet deep. The New Carissa ran aground Feb. 4 north of the entrance to Coos Bay and broke into two pieces last week after a Navy explosives team set it afire to burn off most of the nearly 400,000 gallons of fuel aboard. See full story http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558474745-5df ~~~ Elizabeth L. MacNabb, PhD [EMAIL PROTECTED] Service Learning, Career Development Center Richmond Hall, UR, Richmond, VA 23173 phone 804-289-8686, fax 804-287-6465
Re: the eco-villiage
Alison, I lived on The Farm, in Summertown Tennessee in the late 70s. It is now internationally known as an ecovillage. I'm pretty sure they still accept potential inhabitants. For what it's worth: the only caveat I have would be that while I was there, the general assumption seemed to be that women should be having babies and making sandwiches, while men should be running things. I can't say I met everyone or investigated everything there (in fact I never even SAW Stephen or Ina Mae Gaskin), but my impression for the few monoths I was there was that things were pretty gender-tradtional. I don't know whether things have changed. Let me know if you find out! --E. ~~~ Elizabeth L. MacNabb, PhD [EMAIL PROTECTED] Service Learning, Career Development Center Richmond Hall, UR, Richmond, VA 23173 phone 804-289-8686, fax 804-287-6465
Re:RE: virus: request for attribution
Wow, go Joe! and thanks. --E. ~~~ Elizabeth L. MacNabb, PhD [EMAIL PROTECTED] Service Learning, Career Development Center Richmond Hall, UR, Richmond, VA 23173 phone 804-289-8686, fax 804-287-6465
No Subject
Nicole, I respect your anger. But I'm tired of your narcissism, and I believe the majority of the list is as well. You said you were going to sign off. Was that an empty "threat"? Please give the rest of us a break, and either contribute something constructive to the list or sign off. Lewis and Joe, can't you see that you're just prolonging the agony of this whole childish exchange? I really hate to see our list fragmented and demoralized this way. Can both of you refrain from responding to Nicole? That's more than likely the only way it will ever end. sending all of you good thoughts, --E. ~~~ Elizabeth L. MacNabb, PhD [EMAIL PROTECTED] Service Learning, Career Development Center Richmond Hall, UR, Richmond, VA 23173 phone 804-289-8686, fax 804-287-6465
Re: ECOFEM Monthly Reminder
Just a quick question-- I can't remember if people subscribed to ecofem are required to give full names and other identifying info. Are they? I think some people are concerned that some recent notes are from "constructs" rather than people. Is there any way to tell? Best, --E.M. ~~~ Elizabeth L. MacNabb, PhD [EMAIL PROTECTED] Service Learning, Career Development Center Richmond Hall, UR, Richmond, VA 23173 phone 804-289-8686, fax 804-287-6465
Re: Fw: To All The Women Used and Victimized by Bill Clinton
I'm glad you shared the item from juliette cutler page, Kimberly. But I'm wondering why *feminista* waited until now to take this position, especially given that the most recent source cited is August of '98. I haven't read *feminista* but I did check out the Dworkin letter cited in your forward, which was the first time I'd heard of it. I'm not saying I disagree with the forward, so much as that I find the timing curious. --E. ~~~ Elizabeth L. MacNabb, PhD [EMAIL PROTECTED] Service Learning, Career Development Center Richmond Hall, UR, Richmond, VA 23173 phone 804-289-8686, fax 804-287-6465
Re: Environmental Bad Guys
I found this forward very useful. Thanks. --E. ~~~ Elizabeth L. MacNabb, PhD [EMAIL PROTECTED] Service Learning, Career Development Center Richmond Hall, UR, Richmond, VA 23173 phone 804-289-8686, fax 804-287-6465
Re: Fwd:Molotovs and mailing lists
I found the article Joe posts very interesting, especially the following paragraphs: Brooke Shelby Biggs, a writer and one of the TR-L members, says it wasn't so much a matter of disliking her TR-L colleague but feeling that the conversation (of 20 posts a day) had swung hopelessly out of balance. "It gets this way on every list I've ever been on," she says. "Someone comes in and tries to throw a Molotov cocktail on the list -- it's like trying to reason with someone who has a weapon." But that's the tricky knot of the problem: Often these provocateurs have something essential to contribute, but the sheer wattage of their energies endangers the connection they're trying to create. Where Biggs sees a weapon, Antiorp sees performance art, Mediafilter sees social critique and Stahlman sees a hidden agenda needing to be exposed. E. again: If listservs do indeed have a life that includes dying a "natural" death, then I, for one, hope our ecofem list is not on its way down. I've received some extremely valuable information from most of the posts. But after the religion war and the black-white war we've been inundated with of late, one could reach the conclusion that we seem to be somewhat prone to "dis-ease." I hope the "Molotov" article is wrong in claiming that resigning from the list seems to be the only "cure." To take the metaphor one step further, can we put our heads together and figure out some way to "inoculate" our list? Sending you all good thoughts, --E. ~~~ Elizabeth L. MacNabb, PhD [EMAIL PROTECTED] Service Learning, Career Development Center Richmond Hall, UR, Richmond, VA 23173 phone 804-289-8686, fax 804-287-6465
RE: Learn before you condemn.
My thoughts exactly, Sarah. --E. At 01:28 PM 3/9/99 -0500, you wrote: thank you, joe, for responding to her personally. Nicole, do you have to make this squabble an issue for all of us? KEEP IT TO YOURSELF! -- From:[EMAIL PROTECTED][SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:Tuesday, March 09, 1999 11:58 AM To: STUDIES IN WOMEN AND ENVIRONMENT Subject: Fwd: Learn before you condemn. Message: Re: Learn before you condemn. All: Does he now think he has the power to cast me into the fiery pits of hell because he dislikes what I have to say on an email list? God-complex? Caressing the skin of mother earth? Can't I just hug a tree? Hmm, I am racist? I must make a note of that - do we get membership cards or something? Does this mean I get to go to the Klan rallys for free, reduced admission or what? Are we issued uniforms? Is it like the girl scouts where you get a different uniform based on your level, say beginners are skinheads, then you advance to hoods, and then later you get to wear a business suit, and when you are really advanced you get to where what you want and condemn people to hell on on ecofeminist list while pretending to be a righteous and "deep" pagan, philosopher, feminist. Would I have to wear a white hood, or can I pick some other color? Summer is coming and I would like to go more tropical, a kiwi or lime green looks great against my skin, would that be okay? So many little details with this new membership! Nicole ~~~ Elizabeth L. MacNabb, PhD [EMAIL PROTECTED] Service Learning, Career Development Center Richmond Hall, UR, Richmond, VA 23173 phone 804-289-8686, fax 804-287-6465
Re: Peace! Is there a way toward planetary action and compassion?
Bob wrote: Are we in relative agreement on the science here- that the planet is indeed getting seriously disturbed by the excesses of human presence and something needs to happen pretty soon to avoid disaster? If that's so. if we do agree on that; than what? Wondering what next- Bob the treeplanter, in middle of nowhere GA Thanks for your post, Bob. I am in agreement with you, and I worry that any productive discussion we might try to have will be sidetracked by the "flame wars" -- which, as Jane and Susan have noted, is exactly what seems to happen out there in the "real world" (if I read you right) when wars get going. How can we learn from this? Can we devise some sort of formula or technique that will help us ignore the egocentric posts and cut through to the real issues, to sift the wheat from the chaff (to paraphrase an old Arabian proverb)? Has anyone out there studied problem resolution or any of the other progressive methods by which we might get a handle on this. If we can't do it, who can? Sending you all good thoughts, --E. ~~~ Elizabeth L. MacNabb, PhD [EMAIL PROTECTED] Service Learning, Career Development Center Richmond Hall, UR, Richmond, VA 23173 phone 804-289-8686, fax 804-287-6465
Re: re Feminist lecturer who had no males in her class
Ginger, the lecturer is Mary Daly, and you should read some of her books if you ever get the chance. She's awesome! --E. ~~~ Elizabeth L. MacNabb, PhD [EMAIL PROTECTED] Service Learning, Career Development Center Richmond Hall, UR, Richmond, VA 23173 phone 804-289-8686, fax 804-287-6465
Re: #** Key avenues to the Heart of Eco-RENEWAL **#
Would the world be a better place with 1,000 more of you, or Susan, or Joe Dees on the side of change or would the world be worse? Not only do we need each and every one we can muster on board, but I believe we need ten thousand times more who are researching, investigating, writing, arguing, clashing, consoling, questioning, complaining, and speaking Ecofem. We need twenty million times more who are actually participating Ecofem in every media possible. Even then we would have far too few. ** Thank you Donna for your wise words, and Susan, and Jane, and Chris, and Joe, and all the others whose voices of reason/spirit have made an effort to keep our list together. I second you. We need every one of us who care about ecofeminism. Let's give ourselves the benefit of the doubt. Sending all good thoughts to you, --E. At 10:27 PM 3/15/99 -0800, you wrote: Dear Chris, I missed quite a bit of what has been happening on this listserve, but from what little I have been able to glean from recent posts I am saddened and sorry that there are people here who are more than willing to eliminate any one for any reason who is working on relevant social issues. Today on C-span, a US cable channel that often airs live political events, the Feminist Majority was brought to light in the efforts they are making to ease the suffering of women under Taliban rule, I would have wished you could have seen it. I would have asked for your comments. I am not sure I understand everything you write but I've seen that at the heart of Eco-renewal most definitely is a long overdue and much needed re-understanding of scripture. I only know King James but it's been fascinating transcribing the beginnings of an environmental biblical concordance with two professors at my university (as a humanist it's been a remarkable experience), watching as one-time traditional dominion theory Christian churches in this country are beginning to form coalitions to fight important social and environmental issues from a position of 'caring for creation.' It is this re-thinking, re-evaluation of their scripture that will create change among the masses in this religious arena. Perhaps this will create change in the political and cultural arena as well over time. Again, I believe our common plight requires many diverse voices to reach many diverse people. I guarantee that what is appropriate to one will always be inappropriate to another, that is the nature of our current global 'in' ability to communicate. It should never be considered a problem, only simple logic and reasoning... simple marketing pr. However one chooses to see it, we can not afford to lose even one voice. No one here can know for certain which note will strike a chord in someone to be carried out into the world beyond this list. I wish you much success in your travels and your teachings. /donna ~~~ Elizabeth L. MacNabb, PhD [EMAIL PROTECTED] Service Learning, Career Development Center Richmond Hall, UR, Richmond, VA 23173 phone 804-289-8686, fax 804-287-6465
It's About Time!!!
Dear Ecofem, sorry to have missed April Fool's day with this, but it's kinda funny and I thought I'd pass it on anyway. --E. Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 09:43:15 -0500 Reply-To: Environmental Communication List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: Environmental Communication List [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Sue Senecah [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: It's About Time!!! To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GREENLines, Thursday, April 1, 1999 from GREEN, the GrassRoots Environmental Effectiveness Network, A project of Defenders of Wildlife (505) 255-5966 or E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (c) GREEN/Defenders of Wildlife 1999 STARR INVESTIGATES FOREST SERVICE: Special prosecutor Ken Starr announced he will launch an investigation into the US Forest Service. Starr claims under Clinton's watch, the Forest Service repeatedly violated the National Forest Management Act in order to accommodate extractive industries. He will focus on massive subsidies to timber companies, as well as the Administration's "dismal" response to allegations of whistle-blower retaliation. "From Whitewater, to the Lewinski affair, to the treatment of our public lands, the President has repeatedly demonstrated his contempt for the law and the American people." ENVIROS REVERSE COURSE: A coalition of environmental groups announced they will now aggressively seek more timber cutting in national forests, "in order to save the forests from ecological damage." Citing the results of a year-long scientific study they said "We are now completely convinced that the timber industry was right all along--old- growth trees are not only decadent and ugly, but that they are also a menace to the future health of our entire national forest system." Former timber protester Brock Evans said, "With any luck, we might be able to extract upwards of 20 billion board feet of trees before they do more damage." SECRET FILES RELEASED: An unidentified source revealed Alaskan Representative Don Young was an environmental activist during the 1960s. Several of his former colleagues apparently have come forward to reveal details of Young's secret past. He was most active in little known efforts to have the mosquito listed as a threatened species because of the loss of wetlands habitat to development. "He was an inspiration to all of us. We called him Moon Daddy because he liked to drop his pants at protests." MINERS TELL FISH TALES: The National Mining Association held a press conference yesterday at the site of a Montana mine to criticize a successful voter initiative banning cyanide leach mining. To back up claims that cyanide mining is not harmful to the environment, the CEOs of the leading mining companies pointed to a herd of elk grazing near a fish-filled stream. One official queried, "See there, if this stream were polluted would you see fish and elk?" The officials remained defiant even when seconds later one of the trout jumped out of the stream and ate an entire elk. "This just goes to show that cyanide actually increases the health of streams and the fish that live there." [Publishers note: We've been saving these stories for this special April 1 edition of GREENLines. Enjoy!] ~~ GrassRoots Environmental Effectiveness Network (GREEN) Director's office: PO Box 40046, Albuquerque, NM 87196-0046 (505) 255-5966 fax: (505) 255-5953 [EMAIL PROTECTED] DC Office: 1101 14th St., NW, Suite 1400, Washington, DC 20005 (202) 682-9400 fax: (202) 682-1331 [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit our web site at: http://www.defenders.org/grnhome.html *** Lisa K. Heller Instructor of Speech Debate Dept of Speech Communication University of Richmond Phone: (804) 289-8269 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] fax: (804) 287-6496 ** "You can't stop the waves, but you can learn how to surf." Zen saying ~~~ Elizabeth L. MacNabb, PhD [EMAIL PROTECTED] Service Learning, Career Development Center Visiting Faculty, Jepson Leadership Studies Richmond Hall, UR, Richmond, VA 23173 phone 804-289-8686, fax 804-287-6465
John Seed's Anti-Gold Campaign/Road Show Info.
Dear (un)leash and Susan, the following info on goldmining was just sent me this morning. Hope it helps! --E. Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 21:11:56 -0700 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Earth First! Media Center [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: BIOREGIONAL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: John Seed's Anti-Gold Campaign/Road Show Info. X-To: Recipient List Suppressed:; X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Unverified) From: Project Underground Rainforest Information Centre Friends, This is an invitation to join GoldBusters, a coalition of groups opposed to the mining of gold. By joining our coalition, you will be offering your support to a global campaign that aims at decreasing the unnecessary consumption of gold. The mining of gold is one of the most environmentally destructive industrial activities presently blighting our planet and wreaks havoc on indigenous communities on every continent. In dozens of countries mercury-laced tailings, eroded land and acid mine drainage stand as visible and toxic legacies of gold rushes from days gone by. Unfortunately in the 1990s, the gold mining industry has experienced a boom due to new technologies, principally using cyanide to leach the gold from its parent rock. In 1995, a waste water dam at the Omai gold mine in Guyana broke and spilt 3.2 billion liters of cyanide-laced waste into the river in what is believed to be the biggest such disaster in history. The environmental destruction is often coupled with human rights abuses that stretch back from the foundation of the Roman Empire on Spanish gold to the genocide of the native people of California in the gold rush of 1849 to the current cultural devastation of the Western Shoshone in Nevada, US. Heroic and historic struggles are being waged from Australia to Zimbabwe by scores, if not hundreds, of groups opposing a gold mine in their own country or region. We are sending this letter out to all of you in the belief that, working in concert, we have a chance to get to the heart of the problem, instead of working separately on one poisonous symptom after another. We propose to network our groups together and build a movement against goldmining. GoldBusters is a two-pronged campaign aimed at jewelry consumers on the one hand, and nations' gold reserves on the other. Gold Busters aims to depress the price of gold by asking governments and individuals to divest of gold investments and consumers to no longer purchase gold jewelry. Depressing the price of gold would lead to the decommissioning of many mines, and the dumping of exploration stocks by investors. GoldBusters, much like the campaigns which cut the market for fur, hopes to rob gold of its luster. The good news is that the price of gold has been hovering at an historic low, having dropped from $800/ounce in 1979 to under $300 at present. This reduces the demand for new gold mines and so the current depression in the price of gold is good for the planet. For example, twenty gold mines in Australia have been postponed or closed since the value of gold fell below $300 per ounce. In 1996, if you include the cost of exploration, an ounce of gold cost $317 to produce. Our job is made easier by the trivial uses to which most gold is put. Some 80% of new gold being mined worldwide is for jewelry. In the US, 70% of the gold jewelry purchased is bought by women who certainly are unaware of the true costs of the gold they wear. Women and men are being asked to lay down their gold jewels as they give voice to their care for the Earth, and for future generations. The US has the highest per capita consumption of gold and 1.6 million students will buy gold and silver class rings this year. Youth, unwitting consumers, are joining our Youth GoldBusters Campaign by adapting alternatives such as tree planting to mark the passage from educational institutions in more nurturing ways. Gold's current price depression has been deepened by the sale of hundreds of tons of bullion by central banks around the world. About one quarter of all the gold in existence - 34,000 tonnes worth nearly 330 billion dollars at current market prices - is part of the international reserves of governments, central banks and other financial institutions. However, since the US stopped pegging the dollar to gold, gold is becoming increasingly irrelevant to world finance. An investment in bullion worth $100 in 1987 would now be worth less than $70 today. Some countries have realized this and started selling their reserves of gold, especially Canada (85% now sold), Australia (68%), Argentina (100%) and the Netherlands. Even the Swiss - a country historically wed to gold as a hedge -- are considering selling two-thirds of their gold by referendum next year and the US Federal Reserve has circulated strategy papers on doing it. We feel that the Swiss are already vulnerable to pressure concerning the ethics of holding gold since much of their reserve was stolen by the Nazis, even gold teeth from
ENVIRO IMPACT OF NATO BOMBINGS
Dear Eco-fems, fyi. --E. From: "Lisa K. Heller" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ENVIRO IMPACT OF NATO BOMBINGS IMPACTS OF NATO'S "HUMANITARIAN" BOMBINGS, THE BALANCE SHEET OF DESTRUCTION IN YUGOSLAVIA by Michel Chossudovsky [...] The intensity of the bombing using the most advanced military technology is unprecedented in modern history. It far surpasses the bombing raids of World War II or the Vietnam War. The bombings have not only been directed against industrial plants, airports, electricity and telecommunications facilities, railways, bridges and fuel depots, they have also targeted schools, health clinics, day care centres, government buildings, churches, museums, monasteries and historical landmarks. [...] Refineries and warehouses storing liquid raw materials and chemicals have been hit causing environmental contamination. The latter have massively exposed the civilian population to the emission of poisonous gases. NATO air strikes on the chemical industry is intent on creating an environmental disaster, "which is something not even Adolf Hitler did during World War II." [...] The NATO bombings have also used of weapons banned by international conventions. Amply documented by scientific reports, the cruise missiles utilize depleted uranium "highly toxic to humans, both chemically as a heavy metal and radiologically as an alpha particle emitter". Since the gulf War, depleted uranium (DU) has been a substitute for lead in bullets and missiles. According to scientists "it is most likely a major contributor to the Gulf War Syndrome experienced both by the veterans and the people of Iraq". According radiobiologist Dr. Rosalie Bertell, president of the International Institute of Concern for Public Health: "When used in war, the depleted uranium (DU) bursts into flame [and] releasing a deadly radioactive aerosol of uranium, unlike anything seen before. It can kill everyone in a tank. This ceramic aerosol is much lighter than uranium dust. It can travel in air tens of kilometres from the point of release, or be stirred up in dust and resuspended in air with wind or human movement. It is very small and can be breathed in by anyone: a baby, pregnant woman, the elderly, the sick. This radioactive ceramic can stay deep in the lungs for years, irradiating the tissue with powerful alpha particles within about a 30 micron sphere, causing emphysema and/or fibrosis. The ceramic can also be swallowed and do damage to the gastro-intestinal tract. In time, it penetrates the lung tissue and enters into the blood stream. ...It can also initiate cancer or promote cancers which have been initiated by other cancinogens". [...] Recent articles by Chossudovsky : On Kosovo: http://www.transnational.org/features/crimefinansed.html On the break-up of Yugoslavia: http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/62/022.html On the Brazilian financial crisis: http://wwwdb.ix.de/tp/english/special/eco/6373/1.html On global poverty and the financial crisis: http://www.transnational.org/features/chossu_worldbank.html http://www.transnational.org/features/g7solution.html http://www.twnside.org.sg/souths/twn/title/scam-cn.htm http://www.interlog.com/~cjazz/chossd.htm http://www.heise.de/tp/english/special/eco/ http://heise.xlink.de/tp/english/special/eco/6099/1.html#anchor1 *** Lisa K. Heller Instructor of Speech Debate Dept of Speech Communication University of Richmond Phone: (804) 289-8269 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] fax: (804) 287-6496 ** "You can't stop the waves, but you can learn how to surf." Zen saying ~~~ Elizabeth L. MacNabb, PhD [EMAIL PROTECTED] Service Learning, Career Development Center Visiting Faculty, Jepson Leadership Studies Richmond Hall, UR, Richmond, VA 23173 phone 804-289-8686, fax 804-287-6465
humorous definition, anyone?
Now that we're no longer feuding over the great vegetarian debate, and tempers have cooled somewhat, I want to share a little chuckle with you (it may or may not be obvious that the semester's over here, and my email volume has subsided somewhat). Definition of one type of vegetarianism: I've coined the term "recovering carnivore," because in living out my own personal brand of vegetarianism, I find that I try really hard not to eat meat, but every once in awhile I "fall off the wagon" and indulge. For example, sometimes if I'm invited to eat dinner at a friend's and there's no vegetarian option, I might pick the meat out of the soup and eat the broth anyway. My favorite meats are the worst ones, like bacon and hot dogs, which I love extremely overcooked, nitrates torqued up to the inth degree. However, I've been "sober" now for almost four years, and am feeling pretty proud of myself. One of the ways I manage is with YVES veggie hotdogs-- they're pretty good covered with mustard! Bacon is hopeless, I'm afraid-- anyone know of a good substitute? Hope I got a smile from some of you. Best of luck in grading/taking those finals to you uni. denizens out there. --E. ~~~ Elizabeth L. MacNabb, PhD [EMAIL PROTECTED] Service Learning, Career Development Center Visiting Faculty, Jepson Leadership Studies Richmond Hall, UR, Richmond, VA 23173 phone 804-289-8686, fax 804-287-6465
Off for the summer
Dear folks, just wanted to say farewell for the summer. I'll be off-line until mid-August. Best, --E. ~~~ Elizabeth L. MacNabb, PhD [EMAIL PROTECTED] Service Learning, Career Development Center Visiting Faculty, Jepson Leadership Studies Richmond Hall, UR, Richmond, VA 23173 phone 804-289-8686, fax 804-287-6465
Hello again and request for reviewers
Dear ecofem-ers, hello! I've been away for the summer, and still haven't had time to read the archives, but I look forward to reading what your posts once again. Meanwhile, I'm just getting ready to send a manuscript to Haworth Press that I and others have been working on for several years. Haworth has asked us to provide the names of 8 pre-publication reviewers. I was wondering whether anyone on this list might be interested in reviewing the manuscript. Compensation for the task is a copy of the finished product (and of course, if your review is a rave, they may quote you when selling the book!) The anthology, entitled "Transforming the Disciplines," is intended as a new type of textbook for "Intro to Women's Studies" courses. Composed of twenty-six essays, each from a different academic discipline, the book contains eight humanities essays, eight social sciences essays, five natural sciences essays, and five from the professional fields. Each is a very brief discussion of how feminism and/or women's studies has changed (or at least, how it has affected) the field. The book's authors hail from the US, Canada, Australia, and England. Because the intended reader is first year college students, all essays are written in a non-technical style. As a reviewer, you would need to know very little about the specific disciplines in order to review the book, which is about three hundred pages long. Please don't send replies to the list, but instead directly to me, at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks! --E.
Re: Garbbed in Cliche
Helllooo Donnna! Good to "hear" your voice again. I second your emotion: where is everyone these days? I have just finished a two day conference on Philanthropy where we started off with Ralph Nader as our token radical. Ralph exhorted us to remember that the need for charity in a community decreases in direct proportion to the availability of justice. Yet we finished the two days with a panel bragging about how many large "gifts" they had been able to bring to their university. Two of the four members of this panel were downright hostile when I suggested that the curriculum of our core humanities course might benefit from an infusion of issues from Ralph Nader's "real world" of social justice. Seems they felt the pure, intellectual nature of the course might be contaminated by an assignment that asked students to serve the community in some way. All I can say is, I'll try to keep fighting the good fight, and I'm glad to know that you and others are out there, Donna! Best, --E. Richmond, VA At 10:00 PM 10/26/1999 -0800, you wrote: Dear Ecofem, It's been a while since anyone has raised here. I miss our RAVE and feel a need. Maybe it's because things have settled down or skidded up in most of our lives, going this way or that. I feel a need. Nothing is fixed, or is it? ...the world is still the same. Not long ago, when we were raging with Joe and Jane, Angela and Chris and So Many Others on this serve. Life goes there, to that place. Mine does. I have to wake up in the morning and go to this new job that does nothing to fix the IT that was here before the other it: Graduation from college. Where will we go to relieve the pain? I thank the "Rutherfords" for keeping us alive as the world rots 'round us. Thanks Steph for keepin us makin the rounds of silence vs. voice. Washer, thanks. What's up in everyone's part of the world? Here on the Tongass in Alaska, I'm learning the mentality of early European settlers and their assumption that vast means inexhaustible. I'm learning that it's customary to waste, throw garbage out the window of your vehicle, that cigarette butts are biodegradable, that recycling is not only Not Necessary, but requisite to survival when local authorities charge less for more waste generated, and that your personal worth is comparable to the latest model utility vehicle you own. Love/donna
[ACS-ENV-FELLOWS] Washington and Lee University-Director of Environmental Studies
fyi. --E. X-Authentication-Warning: hippokrene.colleges.org: majordom set sender to owner-env-fellows using -f Date: Mon, 01 Nov 1999 09:40:01 -0500 From: "Robert S. Whyte" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Associated Colleges of the South X-Accept-Language: en To: Program Committee [EMAIL PROTECTED], Fellows [EMAIL PROTECTED], Career Planners [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Wayne Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kim Thurlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ACS-ENV-FELLOWS] Washington and Lee University-Director of Environmental Studies Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] FYI: I am forwarding to you a position opening in environmental studies at Washington Lee University. Sounds very exciting. If there are any questions, please contact Ken Ruscio directly. -Bob -- ACS Colleagues: I wanted to call your attention to position opening at Washington and Lee. Please feel to bring this to the attention of individuals who may be interested. We also invite nominations. I'd be most willing to answer any questions or provide additional information. Thanks very much. __ Washington and Lee University Director of Environmental Studies Program Washington and Lee University invites applications and nominations for Director of the Environmental Studies Program. The position is tenure-track at the associate or full professor level and will include programmatic responsibilities, scholarship, and a reduced teaching load. The successful candidate will have a doctorate, a distinguished record of scholarship and teaching, demonstrated success in interdisciplinary work, and an understanding of scholarship in science, policy, ethics, and humanities related to the study of environment. The appointment will begin on July 1, 2000. Washington and Lee University is a highly selective institution with an historically strong undergraduate program in the liberal arts and sciences, a top-ranked law school, and a nationally accredited business program. A renewed commitment to the sciences is demonstrated by a state of the art science facility completed in 1998. With generous support from The Jessie Ball duPont Fund and a commitment from the University in its strategic plan, the Environmental Studies Program will enter a new phase in its development with the appointment of a director. Guided by the theme of environmental citizenship, the program seeks to provide students with the scientific, policy, and ethical foundations necessary to address environmental issues throughout their lives. The program currently enjoys strong support and active participation from a broad base of faculty and students in the arts and sciences. Review of applications will begin December 15, 1999, and continue until the position is filled. Applicants should submit a letter of interest describing their qualifications and experience, a curriculum vitae, and the names, addresses, and phone numbers of three professional references to: Kenneth P. Ruscio, Chair Environmental Studies Search Committee Washington and Lee University Lexington, Va. 24450 Washington and Lee University is an equal opportunity employer. Kenneth P. Ruscio Associate Professor of Politics Washington and Lee University Lexington, Va. 24450 540-463-8915/Fax: 540-463-8639 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Robert S. Whyte, Ph.D. "Unless someone like you Director of Environmental Programs cares a whole awful lot, Associated Colleges of the South nothing is going to get better. 1975 Century Blvd., NE Suite 10It's not." Atlanta, GA 30345 - Dr. Seuss The Lorax [EMAIL PROTECTED] 404-636-4821 Direct Line 404-636-9533 Main Office fax: 404-636-9558 http://www.colleges.org/~enviro ~ Elizabeth L. MacNabb, PhD Asst. Director for Service Learning Visiting Faculty, Jepson School Richmond Hall G 29-B, University of Richmond Richmond VA 23173 804-289-8686, fax 804-287-6465
Re: leaky plastics
Hi, Gwendolyn-- Greenpeace haas a website that deals with the topic of plastics and how they affect food, as well as other ways they pollute. The site can be found at http://www.greenpeace.org/~toxics/ Best, --E. At 10:19 PM 11/08/1999 -0600, Gwendolyn L Griffin wrote: i have heard much about the fact the plastics leach toxics into whatever food substance they are holding (incl. plastic soda bottles, plastic baggies, tupperware . . . .) that they indeed leach hormonal disrupters which are causing girls to reach puberty prematurely, for one . . .other effects i cannot remember . . . does anyone have information on this? thanks! gwendolyn griffin ~ Elizabeth L. MacNabb, PhD Asst. Director for Service Learning Visiting Faculty, Jepson School Richmond Hall G 29-B, University of Richmond Richmond VA 23173 804-289-8686, fax 804-287-6465
Re: Information.... (fwd)
Did I miss something or is the doyenne of "house beautiful" now a member of our ecofem listserv? --E. At 07:13 PM 11/17/1999 -1000, you wrote: Hi - have no idea what you're talking about, nor do I know how to send emails I have received to others - so am not the culprit! Thanks, L Adams -Original Message- From: Martha Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: STUDIES IN WOMEN AND ENVIRONMENT [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 6:07 AM Subject: Re: Information (fwd) Hi, I have probably received this forward 10 times in the last 2 years. I dont mean to sound like a hard ass but did you check the validity of this information before you forwarded it? I have a feeling this is one of those forwards that keeps going and going with little basis in the actual world. Because blindly forwarding things you receive is a good way to spread disinformation, I would recommend checking the facts yourself before sending something like this along, especially to a list serv. If you are the sender you should be able to vouch for this info. If you do have information more information about these women, I would be very interested in learning more. Thank you, Martha From: Jake A Paisain [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: STUDIES IN WOMEN AND ENVIRONMENT [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Information (fwd) Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 12:22:05 -0700 (MST) -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 08:48:58 -0700 From: Paul Filicetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Blue Mountain Clinic Cherie Garcelon/Laura Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jake Paisain [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Information Subject: Human rights violations Subject: women in Afghanistan The government of Afghanistan is waging a war upon women. Since the Taliban took power in 1996, women have had to wear burqua and have been beaten and stoned in public for not having the proper attire, even if this means simply not having the mesh covering in front of their eyes. One woman was beaten to DEATH by an angry mob of fundamentalists for accidentally exposing her arm while she was driving. Another was stoned to death for trying to leave the country with a man that was not a relative. Women are not allowed to work or even go out in public without a male relative; professional women such as professors, translators, doctors, lawyers, artists and writers have been forced from their jobs and stuffed into their homes, so that depression is becoming so widespread that it has reached emergency levels. There no way in such an extreme Islamic society to know the suicide rate with certainty, but relief workers are estimating that the suicide rate among women, who cannot find proper medication and treatment for severe depression and would rather take their lives than live in such conditions, has increased significantly. Homes where a woman is present must have their windows painted so that she can never be seen by outsiders. They must wear silent shoes so that they are never heard. Women live in fear of their lives for the slightest misbehavior. Because they cannot work, those without male relatives or husbands are either starving to death or begging on the street, even if they hold Ph.D.'s. There are almost no medical facilities available for women,and relief workers, in protest, have mostly left the country, taking medicine and psychologists and other things necessary to treat the sky-rocketing level of depression among women. At one of the rare hospitals for women, a reporter found still, nearly lifeless bodies lying motionless on beds, wrapped in their burqua, unwilling to speak, eat, or do anything, but slowly wasting way.Others have gone mad and were seen crouched in corners, perpetually rocking or crying, most of them in fear. One doctor is considering, when what little medication that is left finally runs out, leaving these women in front of the president's residence as a form of peaceful protest. It is at the point where the term 'human rights violations' has become an understatement. Husbands have the power of life and death over their female relatives,especially their wives,but an angry mob has often just as much right to stone or beat a woman, to death, for exposing an inch of flesh or offending them in the slightest way. Women enjoyed relative freedom, to work, dress generally as they wanted, and drive and appear in public alone until 1996. The rapidity of this transition is the main reason for the depression and suicide; women who were once educators, doctors or simply used to basic human freedoms are now severely restricted and treated as SUB-HUMAN in the name of right-wing fundamentalist Islam. It is not their tradition or 'culture', but is alien to them, and it is extreme even for those cultures where fundamentalism is the rule. Everyone has a right to a tolerable human existence, even if they are women in a Muslim country. If we can threaten military force in Kosovo in the name of human rights for the
[ecofem] genetically modified foods
Dear Folks-- AlterNet recently posted a review (Green Genes) of Peter Pringle's new book Food, Inc., which some of you might find interesting. See http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=16894 Best, --E. MacNabb
[ecofem] mercury, fish oil, fire retardants, species loss
Just a thanks to you, Will, for forwarding these excellent articles. I always look forward to reading what you send. --E. -Original Message- From: Will Affleck-Asch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri 3/19/2004 4:15 PM To: EcoFem Cc: Subject: A Plea to Scrap Mercury Emission Plan - slanted toward industry and is too weak to protect public health - forwarded message - Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 12:19:59 -0700 From: Teresa Binstock [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: A Plea to Scrap Mercury Emission Plan - slanted toward industry and is too weak to protect public health A Plea to Scrap Mercury Emission Plan A bipartisan group says the Bush proposal is slanted toward industry and is too weak to protect public health. By Alan C. Miller and Tom Hamburger LATimes Staff Writers March 17, 2004 http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-mercury17mar17,1,5598494.story WASHINGTON -- A bipartisan group of senators, a former head of the Environmental Protection Agency and health, labor and religious groups urged the Bush administration Tuesday to withdraw its controversial proposal to curb mercury emissions from power plants. They said that the plan was too weak to protect public health and that the internal process that produced it was so slanted toward industry that the final rule would not survive legal challenge. In a letter to EPA Administrator Michael O. Leavitt, Sen. James M. Jeffords (I-Vt.), the ranking minority member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, said the EPA had violated requirements calling for agencies to review alternatives and disclose their analysis when proposing a major regulation. Jeffords also referred to the proposal's gross inadequacies in controlling mercury. He called on Leavitt to request an investigation by the agency's inspector general into the allegations of undue industry influence in the rule-making process. He said it appeared that EPA political appointees and White House officials had worked to skirt, if not directly violate, the law and rules of ethical behavior. But an agency spokeswoman said Tuesday that work on the mercury rule was ongoing and that no judgment should be made until the rule is finalized in December. EPA officials said, at this point, they stand by their cap-and-trade approach to regulating mercury, which creates market-oriented incentives for coal-fired utilities to either clean their emissions or buy credits from those that do. Our goal and our commitment remains the same: to reduce mercury emissions by 70%, said Cynthia Bergman, the spokeswoman. Leavitt said this week that he was directing his staff to undertake additional studies and analysis of the mercury proposal, which was announced in December, shortly after he took office. He said he considered this part of the normal process, which he suggested could result in changes to the proposal. He emphasized that the administration was the first to propose regulations that would limit mercury emissions from power plants. President Clinton's EPA administrator, Carol Browner, said the Bush proposal is fundamentally flawed. It can't withstand a legal test, and it must be withdrawn. Speaking at a news conference hosted by Physicians for Social Responsibility, she said Bush administration officials decided where they wanted to go before they completed the analysis and then they cooked the analysis to get to where the industry was willing to be. That is not the way a regulatory process should operate. Jeffords and Browner said they were largely responding to a Los Angeles Times report Tuesday that disclosed that EPA political appointees had bypassed agency professional staff and a federal advisory committee last year to develop a mercury emissions rule preferred by the White House and industry. The Times also reported that EPA staffers said they were told not to undertake routine economic and technical studies called for under an executive order and requested by the advisory panel. Significant language from utility lobbyists was included verbatim in the proposal. Also Tuesday, Sens. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) and Olympia J. Snowe (R-Maine) reiterated an earlier plea to scrap the EPA's proposed rule. They have collected nearly three dozen signatures
[ecofem] enviro films
We are putting together a list of films for a series at our campus next year. Are there any environmental films that are must see? Thanks for any help you can give me. Elizabeth
