Worth a Look: Nature Ethics & EcoFeminism

“Nature Ethics provides a comprehensive and fair-minded account of the contrasting positions, particularly with respect to animals, between ecofeminist nature ethics and the celebrated holistic views of Theodore Roosevelt, Aldo Leopold, Holmes Rolston III, and Warwick Fox. Anyone interested in women’s studies, animal advocacy, hunting, vegetarianism, or environmental ethics will find this impressive book helpful …

Review: The Empathetic Civilization–the Race to Global Consciousness in a World of Crisis

HUGE Book, Deep Look From One Perspective January 14, 2010 Jeremy Rifkin This is a society-changing piece of work. This is a magnum opus from a very specific point of view that overlooks both major consciousness figures and major biosphere figures. Herman Daly gets one note, Tom Atlee, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Steve McIntosh are not …

Journal: Information Operations (IO) Headlines

Obama staffer Cass Sunstein wants ‘cognitive infiltration’ of 9/11 conspiracy groups In a 2008 academic paper, President Barack Obama’s appointee to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs advocated “cognitive infiltration” of groups that advocate “conspiracy theories” like the ones surrounding 9/11. Phi Beta Iota: Sunstein is a serious person, #2 after Lawrence Lessig …

Worth a Look: Empathetic Smart Civilization

Phi Beta Iota: this specific book is rocketing around Reuniting America, Transpartisan (Left) and Post-Partisan (Right) circles, the 50 million or so Americans–possibly more now–that consider themselves Cultural Creatives.  This book will be reviewed here in a week or two.  Below are related books with links to their review page and from there to their …