Noah – The First Environmentalist
[Spoiler Alert**] While watching the new Noah movie by Darren Aronofsky, I couldn’t help but notice some strong eco-animist undertones, which struck me as quite odd given the centrality of this story for...
environmental politics
New School Divestment – Updates and Thoughts
So as I recently wrote here and in my column in The Free Press, The New School should divest all of its endowment from fossil fuels. Following up on that post, there was...
Accountability on Climate Change – Fossil Fuel Divest
University leadership should support fossil fuel divestment and uphold our values. By: Chris Crews [Update: Here’s the link to the final published version in the The Free Press. You can also read about...
This Week in Our Universe: “Biblical Rainfall Amounts”
This week in our Universe: Leaving the Galaxy, Biblical Floods and the Edge of Space time. If I had my own tv show, this would be today’s episode. I don’t have a show,...
Greenpoint Oil Spill – Happy Earth Day
I live in a Greenpoint, Brooklyn neighborhood in the northwestern corner of the Greenpoint area, sandwiched between the BQE, Calvary Cemetery and the East River industrial zone. It’s a lovely little place with...
Anthropocene Fundamentalism
As I’ve written about before, I had the change to present some of my work on the Anthropocene at the 2013 Western Political Science Association (WPSA) conference in Hollywood recently. For someone writing...
