Several articles in the past month have chronicled the emergence of an emerging municipal uprising in several U.S. cities, sometimes encouraged by European models.
Theme is "Linking Protest and Social Transformation: Social Ecology and the Future of Our Movements," and sessions will be held at the California Institute for Integral Studies.
ISE affiliate Aaron Vansintjan has written an engaging article that analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of two of the most widely discussed political tendencies on the left today, Accelerationism and Degrowth, exploring their political priorities, vision, and blind spots.
• Based in north-central Vermont, the Institute for Social Ecology has offered experiential radical education and support for grassroots organizing and community-building for more than 40 years.
• Social Ecology advocates a reconstructive and transformative outlook on social and environmental issues, and promotes a directly democratic, confederal politics. Social Ecology envisions a moral economy that moves beyond scarcity and hierarchy, toward a world that reharmonizes human communities with the natural world, while celebrating diversity, creativity and freedom.
What meaning can be given to social evolution? Bookchin explains the emergence of social history or "second nature" as the development of consciousness of mi...
There's still time to register for our online seminar Ecology, Democracy, Utopia starting on May 8th! Participants will learn the foundations of social ecology and apply these insights to a variety of contemporary political and ecological problems, sharpening their understanding of the world while developing visionary ideas to change it. ... See MoreSee Less
Enrollment is now open for the spring session of the ISE’s online seminar Ecology, Democracy, Utopia, running May 8 to June 26. Combining video lectures, readings, interactive forums, and weekly online discussion sessions with ISE faculty as well as students from around the globe, the course introdu...
We're super excited for a full summer of ISE events - there's still time to register for all of them - join us!
May 8: online seminar Ecology, Democracy, Utopia begins. June 10-15: San Francisco Social Ecology Intensive. August 19-21: ISE Annual Gathering, Marshfield VT.