The Anthropocene is the proposed name for the geological epoch where humanity is dramatically affecting geological processes. The name draws attention to severe environmental problems – but it also does other things. Jason Moore asks: “Does the Anthropocene argument obscure more than it illuminates?” (2014, 4). Donna Haraway argues that the Anthropocene must be “as short/thin as possible” (2015, 160). Moore, Haraway, Solon and Latour claim the concept uncritically imports Western rationality, imperialism and anthropocentrism – and thereby narrows options for the development of sustainable alternatives.
It is important to be specific about exactly what ‘anthropos’ are doing to destabilise climate systems and other planetary boundaries. There is a particular model of development driving dramatic Earth System change. There are other options. In response to this problem, the Capitalocene is a concept that asserts: “the logic of capital drives disruption of Earth System. Not humans in general” (Salon, 2014).
Bruno Latour says the Capitalocene is “a swift way to ascribe this responsibility to whom and to where it belongs” (2014, 139). It is more specific. Consequently it opens space for other opinions. Yet while the Capitalocene is critical, is not creative. Beyond the assumptions of Anthropocene and the critical perspective of the Capitalocene, new ways of understanding social and ecological relations are emergent.
Design theorist Rachel Armstrong states “there is no advantage to us to bring the Anthropocene into the future… The mythos of the Anthropocene does not help us… we must re-imagine our world and enable the Ecocene” (2015). New ecologically informed ways of thinking and living must be generated. The Ecocene has yet to be designed. Its emergence depends on a new understanding of ecological-human relations and new types of development that emerge from this perspective. The transformative Ecocene describes a curative catalyst for cultural change necessary to survive the Anthropocene.
A presentation at Climate Change: Spatial, Environmental and Cultural Politics University of Brighton, Thursday 28-Friday 29 April 2016.
Posthumanism: Lecture for FOAR 701: 'Research Paradigms'Greg Downey
Lecture slides for FOAR701: 'Research Paradigms' on 'Posthumanism,' based in readings in cultural studies for Masters of Research course. Topics including posthumanism, transhumanism, inter-species relations, cyborg theory, and relevance for social and cultural theory.
Disjuncture and difference in Global Cultural Economy - Prepared by Fiza Zia ...Dr. Fiza Zia Ul Hannan
This shared information highlights challenges of homogenization of culture and how those challenges offer a framework for exploring dis-junctures that could appear with cultural homogenization.
Posthumanism: Lecture for FOAR 701: 'Research Paradigms'Greg Downey
Lecture slides for FOAR701: 'Research Paradigms' on 'Posthumanism,' based in readings in cultural studies for Masters of Research course. Topics including posthumanism, transhumanism, inter-species relations, cyborg theory, and relevance for social and cultural theory.
Disjuncture and difference in Global Cultural Economy - Prepared by Fiza Zia ...Dr. Fiza Zia Ul Hannan
This shared information highlights challenges of homogenization of culture and how those challenges offer a framework for exploring dis-junctures that could appear with cultural homogenization.
Speculative Design and Experiential Futures Stuart Candy
Speculative design and experiential futures are practices for influencing what is possible by materialising the imaginary.
This is an edited version of a presentation by design futurist Stuart Candy to the Stanford d.School class "Decay of Digital Things" (http://decay.io) at the invitation of Elizabeth Goodman (@egoodman) on May 1, 2014.
Presentation at the workshop on Decolonisation of the curriculum, arranged by Ad hoc Senate task team on the decolonisation of knowledge. On 24 May 2016 at APK UJ
An introduction to - and overview of - Donna Haraway's work on Cyborgs and Monstrosity, (and the implications for contemporary and wider social theory)
A partir d'un postulat philosophique simple et pragmatique, comment définir un l'objectif humaniste de l'activité industrielle et identifier les valeurs que la technique appliquée à la vie quotidienne répand
Speculative Design and Experiential Futures Stuart Candy
Speculative design and experiential futures are practices for influencing what is possible by materialising the imaginary.
This is an edited version of a presentation by design futurist Stuart Candy to the Stanford d.School class "Decay of Digital Things" (http://decay.io) at the invitation of Elizabeth Goodman (@egoodman) on May 1, 2014.
Presentation at the workshop on Decolonisation of the curriculum, arranged by Ad hoc Senate task team on the decolonisation of knowledge. On 24 May 2016 at APK UJ
An introduction to - and overview of - Donna Haraway's work on Cyborgs and Monstrosity, (and the implications for contemporary and wider social theory)
A partir d'un postulat philosophique simple et pragmatique, comment définir un l'objectif humaniste de l'activité industrielle et identifier les valeurs que la technique appliquée à la vie quotidienne répand
Bill Rees: The Vulnerability and Resilience of CitiesJoss Winn
Bill Rees, originator of the ecological footprint, says we are already into overshoot. We can plan to reduce our use of Earth's resources, or plunge through a series of disasters.
Full keynote speech from "Resilient Cities" conference. Vancouver, October 20th 2009
Cours Public 1: La quatrième voie : les politiques de la terre face à l’Anthr...EcoleUrbaineLyon
Malgré le péril existentiel sans précédent auquel nous expose la poursuite du modèle de développement dominant, l’examen critique du paradigme sécuritaire inhérent aux scénarios dits « globaux » montre pourtant une incapacité structurelle à imaginer une recomposition symbiotique des interactions entre les humains et les autres vivants. Ni l’appropriation ordolibérale du globe, ni le gouvernement technoscientifique de la planète, ni le projet cosmopolitique d’édification du monde ne suffiront pour répondre aux défis de l’Anthropocène. Nous proposons d’explorer concrètement la possibilité d’une « quatrième voie », celle des politiques de la Terre.
Part one of four of my slides from my two-night talk at Seattle's Town Hall. This evening was introduced by Seattle City Council President Richard Conlin, and is about the global context in which Seattle finds itself making decisions.
Michael P Totten GreenATP: APPortunities to catalyze local to global positive...Michael P Totten
Humanity’s unceasing ingenuity is generating vast economic gain for billions of people with goods unavailable to even kings and queens throughout most of history. Unfortunately, this economic growth has triggered unprecedented se- curity challenges of global and historical magnitude: more absolute poor than any time in human history, the sixth largest extinction spasm of life on earth, climate destabilization with mega-catastrophic consequences, and multi-trillion dollar wars over access to energy. These multiple, inextricably interwoven chal- lenges have low probability of being solved if decision makers maintain the strong propensity to think and act as if life is linear, has no carrying capacity limits, uncertainty is controllable, the future free of surprises, planning is predictable and compartmentalized into silos, and Gaussian distributions are taken as the norm while fat-tail futures are ignored. Although the future holds irreducible uncertainties, it is not fated. The emergence of Internet availability to one-third of humanity and access by most of humanity within a decade has spawned the Web analogue of a ‘Cambrian explosion’ of speciation in knowledge applica- tions. Among the most prodigious have been collaboration innovation networks (COINs) reflecting a diversity of ‘genome’ types, facilitating a myriad of collective intelligence crowd-swarming phenomena (Malone T, Laubacher R, Dellarocas C. The Collective Intelligence Genome. MIT Sloan Management Review, Spring; 2010, Vol. 51). COINs are essential tools for accelerating and scaling transformational solutions (positive tipping points) to the wicked problems confronting humanity. Web COINs enable acceleration of multiple-benefit innovations and solutions to these problems that permeate the nested clusters of linked nonlinear complex adaptive systems comprising the global biosphere and socioeconomy.
Similar to Naming the Epoch: Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Ecocene (20)
Design History and Design Futures: Beyond Anthropocene OntopoliticsEcoLabs
Keynote at Design & Transcience, Design History Society Annual Conference 2022
by Dr. Joanna Boehnert
The significance and risks associated with the Anthropocene diagnosis have yet to be integrated into normative design. This civilisation has yet to ways of living to meet human needs and desires without undermining the climate system and causing the sixth extinction event. For the most part designers are still creating artefacts, products, communications, spaces, processes, services, spaces, and systems that have contributed to the destabilising planetary boundaries and the creation of a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. And so today I will spend a little time thinking about the kinds of ideas that might help design evolve from propelling the unsustainable and defuturing conditions in the Anthropocene.
Ecocene Design Economies: Three Ecologies of Systems TransitionsEcoLabs
Despite accumulative social and technological innovation, the design industry continues to face significant obstacles when addressing issues of sustainability. Climate change and other systemic ecological problems demands shifts on an order of magnitude well beyond the trajectory of business-as-usual. I will argue that these complex problems require addressing the epistemological error in knowledge systems reproducing unsustainable designed worlds. Ecological literacy is a basis for nature-inspired design. Ecologically engaged knowledge must inform design strategies across the psychological, the social and the environmental domains. With the expansive three ecologies perspective, interventions at the intersection of design and economics can enable systems transitions. This theoretical work informs a framing of the current epoch in ways that create a foundation for the creation of regenerative, distributed and redirected design economies.
Feminist Pedagogy and Strategies of Denial v.2EcoLabs
Feminist Pedagogy and Strategies of Denial:
Enabling Difficult Confrontations for Intergeneration Solidarity and Survival
By Dr. Joanna Boehnert
Presentation at the "Critical Pedagogies in the Neoliberal University: Expanding the Feminist Theme in the 21st century art [and design] school session #AAH2019, Brighton, April 2019
I will use this paper to reflect on tensions between generations of feminists with a focus on strategies of denial and their toll on the goals of feminist movements. Feminists movements have historically worked (with varying degrees of success) to end the normalisation of denial of social injustices and symbolic, structural and/or actual violence. Feminist pedagogy must intensify challenges to various manifestations of denial responsible for reproducing patriarchy, oppressive social relations and ecocide.
This paper will address denial in the face of divisive issues such as the ‘me too’ movement; the precarity faced by younger generations; and the intersections of patriarchy and ecological crises. It is based on my personal experience as a daughter of a feminist academic in Canada, as a student at art school and my current role as lecturer in design education oriented towards social and environmental justice. Solidarity and even survival depends on our ability to make confrontations with disturbing information a catalyst for change. The lessons learned from feminist struggles inform the work of confronting oppressions, including those on issues of environment justice. My experiences have led me to the conclusion that many, if not most, oppressive behaviours and attitudes are rooted in various types of denial and unconscious bias. Both are deep seated forces that prevent many of us (and especially those with more privilege) from seeing things that disturb our self-image. Feminist strategies such as transformative learning help us negotiate these difficult confrontations. These are needed now more than ever in higher education and beyond. Unfortunately, neoliberal modes of governance all but destroy opportunities for transformative learning.
The Visual Representation of Complex Systems: A Typology of Visual Codes for ...EcoLabs
Presentation of Dr. Joanna Boehnert's research for Centre for the Evaluation of Complexity Across the Nexus (CECAN) at the Relating Systems Thinking and Design 6 conference in Oslo, Norway October 20th 2017. This presentation includes results collected in surveys distributed at the conference. This is Step One of a short research project on the visual communication of complex systems.
Design embeds ideas in communication, artifacts and spaces in subtle and psychologically powerful ways. Feminist, class, race and indigenous scholars and activists describe how oppressions (how patriarchy, racism, colonialism, etc.) exist within institutions and also within cultural practices. The theory of symbolic violence sheds light on how design can function to naturalise oppressions and then obfuscate power relations around this process. Through symbolic violence, design can function as an enabler for the exploitation of certain groups of people and the environment they (and ultimately ‘we’) depend on to live. Design functions as symbolic violence when it is involved with the creation and reproduction of ideas, practices, processes and tools that result in structural and other types of violence (including ecocide).
Presentation and conversation at the Design Research Society 2016's Design + Research + Society: Future Focused Thinking conference. The University of Brighton. UK and then again at the Decolonising Design group’s Intersectional Perspectives on Design, Politics and Power at Malmo University in November 2016.
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Dr. Joanna Boehnert, Research Fellow in Design, CREAM, University of Westminster + EcoLabs
Dr. Bianca Elzenbaumer, Research Fellow in Design, Leeds College of Art + Brave New Alps
Dimeji Onafuwa, PhD candidate, Carnegie Mellon University
Visual Communication of the Environment in Theory and Practice: Nurturing Rel...EcoLabs
Image-makers have the unique ability to make invisible ecological processes and relationships visible, tangible and accessible. Within the context of an increasingly visual culture, images have potential to nurture the development of new perceptual capabilities and encourage relational perception. Graphic design is well suited to facilitate environmental learning since it can draw on a wide variety of visual strategies to display specific geographic spaces, ecological processes, abstract concepts and future scenarios. With design strategies, image-makers can reveal relationships, patterns and dynamics in complex systems. For these reasons, graphic design has exceptional potential to support relational perceptual practices and ecological literacy.
Mapping Climate Communication - A Practice Reflection on the Climate Timeline...EcoLabs
The Mapping Climate Communication project offers an overview of how climate change is communicated in the public realm by visualizing actors, events, strategies, media coverage and discourses influencing public opinion. Two large-scale maps and one Poster Summary Report were published on-line October 2014. The project uses two visualization methods: a timeline and a network visualization. The Climate Timeline (CT) visualizes the historical processes and events that have lead to the growth of various ways of communicating climate change. The Network of Actors (NoA) illustrates relationships between institutions, organizations and individuals participating in climate communication in Canada, United States and the United Kingdom. Together these two visualizations contextualize events and actors within five discourses: climate science, climate justice, ecological modernization, neoliberalism and climate contrarianism. Since communication happens at the level of rhetoric as well as the level of action, discourses in this project include explicit messages and also messages that are implicit within political, corporate and organizational activities and policy. This approach reveals tensions and contradictions in climate communication.
Presented at Bridging Divides: Spaces of Scholarship and Practice in Environmental Communication. The Conference on Communication and Environment, Boulder, Colorado, June 11-14, 2015 - https://theieca.org/coce2015
Ecological Literacy in Design Education: A Foundation for Sustainable DesignEcoLabs
'Ecological Literacy in Design Education: A Foundation for Sustainable Design' paper presentation at the DRS//CUMULUS Oslo 2013 - 2nd Int. Conference for Design Education Researchers. More information and paper available here: http://ecolabsblog.wordpress.com/2013/01/24/ecolabs-at-drs-cumulus-2013-2nd-int-conference-for-design-education-researchers/
Design as Manipulation. Design as Emancipation EcoLabs
Communication design is used to sell products – but even when it is not explicitly engaged in manufacturing consumer desire, design can function to conceal the impacts of conspicuous consumption and the socio-political-economic system through a process known as symbolic violence. While communication design can be used to reveal consequences, illustrate systemic dynamics and facilitate public processes – capitalism needs designers to promote consumption not to critique consumption! The values embedded in capitalism are reproduced by the design industry. Communication design serves not only to whitewash the destructive practices of corporate entities but to perpetuate the point of view of the culturally, politically and economically powerful.
While there is some vague anti-consumerist and anti-corporate rhetoric in design circles – a cynical stance, on its own, will not transform the dysfunctional political systems. What is urgently needed in design is new form of politically, socially and ecologically engaged design practice. The work of building new social relations that can resist and transform political and economic institutions requires transparent, truthful and participatory communication systems. Designers must engage with social movements who have a legacy of creating agency and developing the means to see through oppressive cultural practices. In this way design can become a force for emancipation rather than manipulation.
Presentation at Occupy Design launch January 2012
The Visual Communication of Ecological LiteracyEcoLabs
Slideshow accompanying a paper that describes a how graphic design can support ecological literacy. Starting with a brief introduction to ecological literacy and a proposal that communication design must join the crisis disciplines in responding to predicaments in the earth science, the paper argues that within an increasingly visual culture, visual intelligence can support the development of new perceptual capabilities potentially leading to relational ways of knowing. Graphic design can facilitate emergent ecological literacy and ecological perception by displaying context, causality and complexity. Graphic design can thus nurture the development of ecological manners of thought by strategically constructing visual resources to encourage ecological perception.
Download the paper that this slideshow is based on here: http://eco-labs.org/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=32&Itemid=108
The Visual Communication of Ecological Literacy - PhD Presentation, November ...EcoLabs
Visualising Science and Environment, ECREA @ The University of Brighton Symposium. 17-18 November 2011
Graphic design is in the unique position of being able to make invisible ecological concepts visible. This paper will introduce my AHRC funded research on the visual communication of ecological literacy and the graphics made as part of this practice-based project. The research demonstrates how images can contribute to the development of new cognitive skills and even social capacities when built into transformative learning processes. I will describe how visual representation can facilitate ecological perception contributing to greater understanding of complexity, context, connections and causality. This research aims to help graphic design nurture latent possibilities in visuals, especially as a means of facilitating the emergence of new mental models to address sustainability imperatives.
One of the major premises of this project is that fragmentary thinking is an obstacle to sustainability and that reductive attitudes towards knowledge cannot adequately address problems associated with ecological systems - or other complex systems. Responding to this dilemma, this project uses a whole systems approach based on the powerful concept of ecological literacy. This research posits that visual communications offers a means of helping audiences understand context, interrelationships, dynamics and other features of whole systems thinking necessary for ecological literacy to become widespread.
Hopenhagen: Design Activism as an Oxymoron EcoLabs
Hopenhagen was an initiative by the International Advertising Association in support of the United Nations at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP-15) in Copenhagen December 2009. The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon UN asked for help from the international advertising industry at Davos in January 2009. Hopenhagen took the form of an international public relations campaign culminating with an installation in the public square in central Copenhagen during the COP-15 summit.
Hopenhagen created a feel good façade where corporate sponsors were helping governments save the world.
Meanwhile, many of the thousands of climate activists congregated in Copenhagen for the summit found Hopenhagen so offensive that they made the campaign and installation itself an object of their protests. Hopenhagen is a classic example of corporate appropriation of people’s movements and the subsequent neutralization of the messages demanding structural change and social justice. As such, Hopenhagen embodies the conflict within the concept of design activism itself. While design functions predominately as a driver of consumption, consumerism, globalization and unsustainable behavior; activism is concerned with social injustice and environmental devastation. Activists struggle to combat the forces of globalization by forming social movements and resisting corporatisation of the commons and everyday life; designers are normally servant of corporate entities. These two forces are integrally at odds.
Transformative Learning and Sustainable Education at SkinDEEP 2011 EcoLabs
Transformative Learning and Sustainable Education. An introduction to transformative learning and a short case study of the 2009 Teach-in for ecological literacy in design education. Presentation at SkinDEEP 2011 - experiential knowledge and multi-sensory communication. International Conference 2011 of the Design Research Society's Special Interest Group on Experiential Knowledge. June 2011. Farnham, UK. http://www.experientialknowledge.org/
Also see: http://teach-in.ning.com/
and the full paper at http://eco-labs.org/
Epistemological Error | A Whole Systems View of the Economic CrisisEcoLabs
We are now faced with an epistemological tradition that conflicts with the highly complex ecological systems on which we depend.
To correct this error, ecological literacy will become increasing important in the practice of business management and other disciplines.
Ecological stability is necessary for material well-being and economic stability but current business practices do not reflect what we know about complex systems or environmental science.
Slideshow of presentation made July 24th 2010 at Oxford University by EcoLabs. See paper: http://bit.ly/90phhw
Full paper download: http://eprints.brighton.ac.uk/7178/1/Epistemological_Error_-_May_2010.pdf
Learning from the Crisis of 2007-09, The 7th International Philosophy of Management Conference. St Anne's College, Oxford
Ecological literacy and creative cultures | EcoLabs EcoLabs
EcoLabs at Subtle Technologies Festival
June 3-6 2010, Toronto | www.eco-labs.org
www.subtletechnologies.com
Artists, designers and other visual communicators have an important role to play in building an understanding of complex environmental problems and creating a momentum for change. Due to the fact that many of the necessary responses to global environmental imperatives are social and political rather than merely technological, cultural producers are key to catalyzing a transition. Yet before we swing into action to save the world from cataclysmic climate change and other converging environmental crises, a new type of learning must be embedded in our practice. This presentation will explore the emergent concept of ecological literacy (eco-literacy) as a starting point for an engaged cultural producer.
American physicist Frijof Capra and educator David Orr defined the concept of ecological literacy in the early 1990s as an understanding of the organizing principles of nature. Ecological literacy has since been developed into a new educational paradigm creating a conceptual basis for integrated thinking about sustainability. Ecological literacy requires that an understanding of natural process become an educational staple. It creates a foundation to enable industrialized societies to re-invent sustainable ways of living.
Ecological literacy is epistemic learning, it depends on critical analysis of our cultural assumptions. The associated concept of transformative learning implies that ecological literacy can only be developed with a process of engagement and through putting new ideas into practice. This presentation will demonstrate how visual communicators can use the concept of ecological literacy to contribute to the development of new cognitive skills, map new intellectual territory and help disseminate new information at a time of rapid societal change. I will present various projects from my practice based PhD research and my work with EcoLabs, a non-profit ecological literacy initiative.
Three bodies of work show various futures as predicted through three different lenses: science, permaculture and economics. Six Degrees illustrates Mark Lynas’ book of the same title based on evidence compiled from hundreds of peer-reviewed scientific papers on projected changes with each degree of climate warming. abcd Scenarios describes four potential future scenarios based on permaculture founder David Holmgren’s work on the impact of energy transitions and multiple converging crises. Steady State is a graphic representation of eco-economist Herman Daly’s work on a sustainable economic system.
Of course the real future will not be neatly defined by any one of these future scenarios, but will be a complex mixture of many driving forces. What all scenarios demonstrate is that humanity is now at a critical junction. The planet is experiencing a climate crisis. The generations of people alive now will either commit the most colossal moral failure in history, or will start a massive enterprise in transition. The gravity, scope, and depth of the problem demand the greatest collective effort and cooperation. None of us can succeed in addressing the root causes of the problem alone; but collectively, we have a window of an opportunity to act. *
EcoMag is a magazine about art, design & sustainability. Each issue will focus on a theme while investigating issues lying at the root of the ecological crisis. The theme of the first issue is ‘Future Scenarios’. All the ideas presented in this magazine can be explored further in the original writings of the authors which in all causes is prolific. References and bibliographies are posted on the EcoLabs website (www.eco-labs.org). We are indebted to the authors: Mark Lynas, David Holmgren and Herman Daly and grateful for having been granted permission to borrow freely and/or republish work.
Editor & art director
Jody Boehnert
Graphic designers
Jody Boehnert
Angela Morelli
Artists / designers
six degrees:
Airside
Jody Barton
Rod Hunt
Leona Clark
Kate Evans
Jamie Slimmon
Si Yeun Kim
steady state:
Angela Morelli
abcd scenarios:
Andrew Merritt
Nurturing Ecological Habits of Mind in Design by Emma DewberryEcoLabs
Presentation by Emma Dewberry at the 2012 Imperative Teach-in, 12 October 2009 at the V&A, London.
Emma Dewberry is a senior lecturer at The Open University. She has taught design for sustainability for over a decade: notably at Goldsmiths College where she co-directed the UK’s first degree programme in Ecodesign in the late 1990’s; and then at Cranfield University where she directed a pioneering MSc in Design for Sustainability. Emma’s teaching and research aims to understand how design can generate different narratives and opportunities for shaping sustainable futures. She has been a champion for the emerging concept of ecological literacy and the holistic worldview required for creative thinkers to deliver greater degrees of sustainability in society. Emma originally trained and worked as an industrial designer before obtaining her PhD in Ecodesign in the mid 1990’s.
Characterization and the Kinetics of drying at the drying oven and with micro...Open Access Research Paper
The objective of this work is to contribute to valorization de Nephelium lappaceum by the characterization of kinetics of drying of seeds of Nephelium lappaceum. The seeds were dehydrated until a constant mass respectively in a drying oven and a microwawe oven. The temperatures and the powers of drying are respectively: 50, 60 and 70°C and 140, 280 and 420 W. The results show that the curves of drying of seeds of Nephelium lappaceum do not present a phase of constant kinetics. The coefficients of diffusion vary between 2.09.10-8 to 2.98. 10-8m-2/s in the interval of 50°C at 70°C and between 4.83×10-07 at 9.04×10-07 m-8/s for the powers going of 140 W with 420 W the relation between Arrhenius and a value of energy of activation of 16.49 kJ. mol-1 expressed the effect of the temperature on effective diffusivity.
Artificial Reefs by Kuddle Life Foundation - May 2024punit537210
Situated in Pondicherry, India, Kuddle Life Foundation is a charitable, non-profit and non-governmental organization (NGO) dedicated to improving the living standards of coastal communities and simultaneously placing a strong emphasis on the protection of marine ecosystems.
One of the key areas we work in is Artificial Reefs. This presentation captures our journey so far and our learnings. We hope you get as excited about marine conservation and artificial reefs as we are.
Please visit our website: https://kuddlelife.org
Our Instagram channel:
@kuddlelifefoundation
Our Linkedin Page:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/kuddlelifefoundation/
and write to us if you have any questions:
info@kuddlelife.org
Willie Nelson Net Worth: A Journey Through Music, Movies, and Business Venturesgreendigital
Willie Nelson is a name that resonates within the world of music and entertainment. Known for his unique voice, and masterful guitar skills. and an extraordinary career spanning several decades. Nelson has become a legend in the country music scene. But, his influence extends far beyond the realm of music. with ventures in acting, writing, activism, and business. This comprehensive article delves into Willie Nelson net worth. exploring the various facets of his career that have contributed to his large fortune.
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Introduction
Willie Nelson net worth is a testament to his enduring influence and success in many fields. Born on April 29, 1933, in Abbott, Texas. Nelson's journey from a humble beginning to becoming one of the most iconic figures in American music is nothing short of inspirational. His net worth, which estimated to be around $25 million as of 2024. reflects a career that is as diverse as it is prolific.
Early Life and Musical Beginnings
Humble Origins
Willie Hugh Nelson was born during the Great Depression. a time of significant economic hardship in the United States. Raised by his grandparents. Nelson found solace and inspiration in music from an early age. His grandmother taught him to play the guitar. setting the stage for what would become an illustrious career.
First Steps in Music
Nelson's initial foray into the music industry was fraught with challenges. He moved to Nashville, Tennessee, to pursue his dreams, but success did not come . Working as a songwriter, Nelson penned hits for other artists. which helped him gain a foothold in the competitive music scene. His songwriting skills contributed to his early earnings. laying the foundation for his net worth.
Rise to Stardom
Breakthrough Albums
The 1970s marked a turning point in Willie Nelson's career. His albums "Shotgun Willie" (1973), "Red Headed Stranger" (1975). and "Stardust" (1978) received critical acclaim and commercial success. These albums not only solidified his position in the country music genre. but also introduced his music to a broader audience. The success of these albums played a crucial role in boosting Willie Nelson net worth.
Iconic Songs
Willie Nelson net worth is also attributed to his extensive catalog of hit songs. Tracks like "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain," "On the Road Again," and "Always on My Mind" have become timeless classics. These songs have not only earned Nelson large royalties but have also ensured his continued relevance in the music industry.
Acting and Film Career
Hollywood Ventures
In addition to his music career, Willie Nelson has also made a mark in Hollywood. His distinctive personality and on-screen presence have landed him roles in several films and television shows. Notable appearances include roles in "The Electric Horseman" (1979), "Honeysuckle Rose" (1980), and "Barbarosa" (1982). These acting gigs have added a significant amount to Willie Nelson net worth.
Television Appearances
Nelson's char
Epcon is One of the World's leading Manufacturing Companies.EpconLP
Epcon is One of the World's leading Manufacturing Companies. With over 4000 installations worldwide, EPCON has been pioneering new techniques since 1977 that have become industry standards now. Founded in 1977, Epcon has grown from a one-man operation to a global leader in developing and manufacturing innovative air pollution control technology and industrial heating equipment.
Top 8 Strategies for Effective Sustainable Waste Management.pdfJhon Wick
Discover top strategies for effective sustainable waste management, including product removal and product destruction. Learn how to reduce, reuse, recycle, compost, implement waste segregation, and explore innovative technologies for a greener future.
UNDERSTANDING WHAT GREEN WASHING IS!.pdfJulietMogola
Many companies today use green washing to lure the public into thinking they are conserving the environment but in real sense they are doing more harm. There have been such several cases from very big companies here in Kenya and also globally. This ranges from various sectors from manufacturing and goes to consumer products. Educating people on greenwashing will enable people to make better choices based on their analysis and not on what they see on marketing sites.
WRI’s brand new “Food Service Playbook for Promoting Sustainable Food Choices” gives food service operators the very latest strategies for creating dining environments that empower consumers to choose sustainable, plant-rich dishes. This research builds off our first guide for food service, now with industry experience and insights from nearly 350 academic trials.
Climate Change All over the World .pptxsairaanwer024
Climate change refers to significant and lasting changes in the average weather patterns over periods ranging from decades to millions of years. It encompasses both global warming driven by human emissions of greenhouse gases and the resulting large-scale shifts in weather patterns. While climate change is a natural phenomenon, human activities, particularly since the Industrial Revolution, have accelerated its pace and intensity
Alert-driven Community-based Forest monitoring: A case of the Peruvian Amazon
Naming the Epoch: Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Ecocene
1. Naming the Epoch:
Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Ecocene
Dr. Joanna Boehnert
P/T Research Fellow in Design - @ecocene
Center for Research and Education in Arts and Media (CREAM)
University of Westminster
Founder of EcoLabs - @ecolabs
http://ecolabsblog.wordpress.com
+ www.eco-labs.org
6. Anthropocene
The evidence amassed by the scholars working in the Anthropocene
and cognate perspectives is indispensible. Such evidence helps us
outline the problems, and descriptively answer the first key question,
“What is occurring?”
Moore 2015, 25
9. It is important to be specific about
exactly what ‘anthropos’ are doing to
destabilise climate systems and other
planetary boundaries.
Anthropocene
10. Anthropocene
Burtynsky’s Oil Fields #19ab, Belridge, California, USA, 2003.
III. Against the Anthropocene
By T.J. DEMOS | Published: 25. MAY 2015
“typical of Burtynsky’s tendency to make
monumental, awe-inspiring photographs from
scenes of environmental violence—violence
defined not only locally in terms of the damage to
regional landscapes, but also globally in relation to
the contribution of industrial fossil fuel production
to destructive climate change...
The problem is that such images tend to naturalize
petrocapitalism, with a photography mesmerized
by the compositional and chromatic elements
of the very infrastructure responsible for our
environmental destruction. Which reminds me of
Walter Benjamin’s oft-quoted insight about fascist
aesthetics:
“Its self-alienation has reached the point
where it can experience its own annihilation as
a supreme aesthetic pleasure.”
Yet another function of Burtynsky’s imagery is to
generalize responsibility for that destruction to
species-being—a key ideological trope of the
Anthropocene.
11. Anthropocene
“In this framework, humans constitute a set of vectors – propelling
the ‘Great Acceleration’ – which threatens planetary crisis. Humans
are placed in one category, Nature in another, and the feedbacks
between them identified.
And this dualist fame constrains our vision of the possible contours
and deepening contradictions of the century ahead. For key to
understanding the unfolding systemic crisis of the twenty-first centry
is a historical method – which implies a new radical praxis – in which
humans and extra-human natures co-produce historical change.”
Moore 2015, 25
12. Anthropocene
“To portray certain social relations as the natural properties of the
species is nothing new. Dehistoricizing, universalizing, eternalizing,
and naturalizing a mode of production specific to a certain time and
place — these are the classic strategies of ideological legitimation...
Without antagonism, there can never be any change in human
societies. Species-thinking on climate change only induces paralysis.
If everyone is to blame, then no one is.”
Malm 2015
14. This poster explores the social impact of the
current model of development. Humans and the
natural world provide essential ‘resources’ for
the purpose of creating products, profits and
economic growth. Yet economic growth does not
necessarily equal greater well-being. Research
has demonstrated that only 1% of growth
contributes to rising standards of living.
Prosperity is increasingly concentrated and over
the past 30 years inequality has risen in over
75% of the countries Global North (OECD
countries). Although there is more than enough
food to meet everyone’s needs, 13% of the
global population face hunger. Meanwhile,
30-50% of the food supply is simply wasted. It
appears that the current model of development
fails to provide prosperity for the majority.
3/4 countries in the Global North
face greater inequality than in 1980.1% of global food supply would eliminate hunger - yet 30-50% of global food supply is simply wasted.
Economic Growth
THE BALANCE SHEET FOR
GROSS GLOBAL PROSPERITY
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Cheap energy made industrial development
possible. One barrel of crude oil contains, in
energy terms, the equivalent to the heavy
manual labour of 12 people working for one year.
As easily accessible fossil fuel supplies diminish,
the era of cheap energy is ending. One way to
understand the consequences of energy scarcity
is by measuring EROI, i.e. ‘Energy Return On
Investment’. In the 1900s EROI was between
100:1 – 50:1. Energy from renewables and
unconventional fossil fuels have much lower
EROIs; for example the Tar Sands have a EROI of
as little as only 3:1. An integrated audit of
development that includes energy issues
indicates that the current model of development
has created dangerous vulnerabilities in its
reliance on fossil fuel.
159Lt
One barrel of crude oil, containing 159
litres, is equivalent to the heavy manual
labour of 12 people for one year.
VS4 million wind turbines could
replace fossil fuels usage globally -
20 million cars are produced every
year so it is technically possible.
Global fossil fuels subsidies amounted to $523
billion in 2011, up almost 30% on 2010 - this is
six times more than subsidies to renewables,
and up 30% from 2010.
THE BALANCE SHEET FOR
GROSS GLOBAL PROSPERITY
Energy Return on Energy Investment
EROI in the 1900s = 100:1 – 50:1
EROI in the tarsands = 5:1 – 3:1
EROI estimated to be necessary for ‘civilisation’
to sustain itself = 5:1
All expansionary phases of the US economy occurred
during times of low energy prices.
*
Energy use (kg of oil equivalent per capita)
World = 1851
USA = 7069
EU = 3412
Low Income countries = 363
Percentage of total energy consumption
that is based on fossil fuels
World = 80%
USA = 83%
EU = 75%
Low income countries = 29%
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The Earth’s ability to provide an accommodating
environment is undermined by our activities.
The Earth is our life-supporting system. Despite
this basic fact, measured in biophysical terms,
the planet is shrinking due to human
interventions. Over the past forty years the Living
Planet Index (an indicator of the state of
biodiversity) has fallen by 30% in northern
countries and fallen by 60% in the tropics. During
this time there has been a doubling of demands
on natural systems. Assessing the capacity of the
ecological system to continue to provide
favorable conditions for civilization must be part
of an audit of development.
Ecological systems have thresholds that can
lead to sudden collapse. Nine planetary
boundaries are central to avoid crossing critical
tipping points. Three boundaries have already
been transgressed: climate change, the rate of
biodiversity loss and the global nitrogen cycle.
The Anthropocene is a new geological age
2/3 ecosystems are exploited
beyond their capacity
BIODIVERSITY LOSS
NITROGEN FLOW
PHOSPHORUS FLOW
CLIMATE CHANGE
OZONE DEPLETION
ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOL LOAD
OCEAN ACIDITY
FRESHWATER CONSUMPTION
CHEMICAL POLLUTION
AGRICULTURAL LAND USE
PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
Biodiversity has been fallen by a rate of 30%
in northern countries and 60% in the tropical
world over the past 40 years.
97-98% of scientists agree climate
change is caused by humankind
THE BALANCE SHEET FOR
GROSS GLOBAL PROSPERITY
characterized by dynamics where our industrial
patterns are a force dramatically effecting
natural, biophysical and geological processes.
The Earth is the foundation for substance, but
an ecological audit indicates that the model of
development is now so dysfunctional that
human survival is at stake.
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Audit of Development. EcoLabs 2012. Content and art directed by: Dr. Joanna Boehnert. Graphic design by: Lazaros Kakoulidis and Tzortzis Ralli.
Capitalocene
Audit of Development. EcoLabs 2012. Content and art directed by: Dr. Joanna Boehnert
Graphic design by: Lazaros Kakoulidis and Tzortzis Ralli
15. P O L I C Y R E S E A R C H
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MAPPING Climate Communication - Network of Actors - 2015 OUTLINES T PRINT.pdf 1 22/01/2015 11:55
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Mapping Climate Communication No.2: Network of Actors. J.Boehnert, 2014
17. Capitalocene
‘The Green Economy: Reconceptualizing the Natural Commons as Natural Capital’.
Environmental Communication. Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group.
22. “there is no advantage to us to bring the
Anthropocene into the future…
..the mythos of the Anthropocene does not
help us…
...we must re-imagine our world and enable
the Ecocene”
Rachel Armstrong 2015
23. Ecocene
Options
• Chthulucene (Donna Haraway) “it does outline the
necessary ethics of what Haraway terms ‘response-
ability,’ the skilled capacities for survival on a damaged
planet that include the practice of justice and
sustainable belonging.”
T.J. Demos 2016
• Gynocene: (Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle)
“gender-equalized, even feminist-led, interventionist
environmentalism, which locates anthropogenic
geological violence as coextensive with patriarchal
domination, linking ecocide and gynocide.”
T.J. Demos 2016
24. Ecocene
Ecocene
• well versed with the critical perspective of the capitalocene
• like chthulucene but easier to say
• like chthulucene but easier to remember
• like chthulucene but less frightening
• like gynocene but with a focus on all types of oppressions
• an ontology, epistemology and ethic emerging from
ecological thought, i.e. ecological literacy
25. Ecocene
THE STEADY STATE ECONOMY
A Totem of Real Happiness
www.eco-labs.org
The Steady State Economy
EcoLabs 2009. Graphic design by Angela Morelli
Based on a paper by Herman Daly, illustrating an
article in EcoMag No.1 (2009), London: EcoLabs.
26. Ecocene
“We are not fighting for nature we are nature
defending itself” The Climate Games. Cop21 Paris
27. References
Armstrong, Rachel (2015) ‘Keynote Presentation’, Urban Ecologies
2015: A conference examining the future design of our cities, 18-19
June 2015, Toronto, Ontario, Canada: OCAD, Ontario College of Art.
Demos, T.J. (2015) ‘III Against the Anthropocene’, Foto_Museum.
25 May 2015. Accessed 22 May 2016: http://blog.fotomuseum.
ch/2015/05/iii-against-the-anthropocene
Demos, T.J. (2015) ‘V. Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Gynocene: The
Many Names of Resistance’, Foto_Museum. 12 June 2015. Accessed
22 May 2016: http://blog.fotomuseum.ch/2015/06/ v-anthropocene-
capitalocene-gynocene-the-many-names-of-resistance
Haraway, Donna (2015) Anthropocne, capitalocene, plantationocene,
chthulucene: Making Kin. Environmental Humanities, 6, pp.159-165.
Malm, Andreas (2015) ‘The Anthropocene Myth: Blaming all of human-
ity for climate change lets capitalism off the hook’, Jacobin. 3 March
2015. Accessed 22 May 2016: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/03/
anthropocene-capitalism-climate-change/
Moore, Jason (2015) Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the
Accumulation of Capital. London: Verso.
28. Dr. Joanna Boehnert https://ecolabsblog.wordpress.com | www.eco-labs.org | @EcoLabs + @ecocene | j.boehnert@westminster.ac.uk
2014201320122011201020092008200720062005
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
1st Nongovernmental International
Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC)
report published yearly since 2010. 2st NIPCC
report
3rd NIPCC
report
4th NIPCC
report
5th NIPCC
report
Rising Tide North America
+ Europe founded (2006)
1st of many Climate Camps in the UK and then globally (2006)
US House Passes
the "American Clean
Energy and Security
Act" (2009) - later
defeated in Senate
350.org Global
Day of Action
2009
100,000 people march in the streets
of Copenhagen and hold their own
People’s Climate Assembly, joined by
100s of U.N. delegates.
Tar Sands Action: 1,253 protestors
arrested at the White House - 2011
Occupy movement - 2011
Idle No More
Indigenous movement
2012
CREDO Pledge of Resistance
over 75,000 vow to commit civil
disobedience if the Keystone XL
pipeline is approved - 2013
The Global Warming Petition
contrarian petition also known
as the Oregon Petition organized
in 1989 and again in 2007
EU Emissions trading launches
The first carbon emissions trading
scheme (EU) implemented. 2005
President Obama releases
the Climate Action Plan
including increased use of
renewable energy and carbon
pollution restrictions for power
plants. June 25, 2013
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protests at
G8 Gleneagles
Scotland 2005 !!!
Transition Towns
founded, UK 2006
5th,2013/14(AR5)4th,2007(AR4)
Hopenhagen
UN global marketing campaign at Copenhagen,
aligns climate objectives with corporate advertising.
Hopenhagend becomes a symbol of the corporate
capture of the climate debate.
COP15
Copenhagen
2009
RIO+20
Earth
Summit
2012
COP13
Bali
2007
Nobel Peace Prize awarded
to Al Gore and the IPCC
2007
The Inconvenient Truth
Academy Award winning documentary film
re-energizes the climate movement - 2006
Newsweek: "The Truth About
Denial" cover story, leads to less
contrarian media outside Fox News
churnalism
OP10
nos Aires
2004
COP11
Montreal
2005 COP12
Nairobi
2006 COP14
Poznan
2008
COP16
Cancun
2010
COP17
Durban
2011
COP18
Doha
2012
COP19
Warsaw
2013
COP20
Lima
2014
loss of 2/3 US newspapers with science sections in 2 decades
Stern
Review
The Stern Review on the
Economics of Climate Change
claims that climate change is
"the greatest market failure the
world has ever seen". UK - 2006
Climategate
Gleneagles
G8
Peak coverage in 2009
5 times larger than 2000
The rise of ‘responsibilitization’ discourse wherein responsibility for climate change
is considered at an individual level rather than at the level where decisions are
made regarding regulation for polluting industry, i.e. government policy.
Katrina
2nd peak
4th peak
CO2 is Green
campaign
Leipzig
Declaration (revised)
SEPP project opposing the global warming
2005 revised
300% increase in climate change lobbyist in the USA (2005 - 2009) - with $90m expenditure
dustry workforce since 2001 ‘bias’ as ‘balance’, i.e. the false balance of science vs. opinion / ideology,
conforming to the journalistic norm of ‘balance’ and conflict. Boykoff 2011
Representative
Joe Barton attacks
climate scientist
Michael Mann
Post Rio+20: The United Nations Environment Programe (UNEP) promotes a version
of the "green economy" where economic valuation processes are to be used to prove the
value of ecosystem services, including climate services, to industry and politicians.
The Copenhagen Accord
Obama
Climate
Plan
UK government
dismantles the
Sustainable
Development
Commission
2011
Canadian
government
cuts over 2000
scientific jobs
and silences
scientists
UK government
makes dramatic cuts
in the Environment
Agency (1,700 jobs
lost)
1st International Conference
on Climate Change hosted
by Heartland Institute in NYC
H1 H2
H3 H5
H7
H4
H6
H8
H9
Sandy
3rd peak
5th peak
Climate Justice Now!
founded in Bali (2007)
4th peak
eclaration on the
on of Climate Change
ched at COP10 (2004)
Nicholas Stern claims
his report underestimated
the gravity of climate change
Fourth IPCC report warns that serious effects
of warming have become evident and that
the cost of reducing emissions would be far
less than the damage they will cause if not
reduced.
Climate Summit
in New York in preperation
for COP 21 in Paris, 2015.
September 2014
The Climate Change Act
UK government becomes the
first to set binding targets
to reduce emission
2008
UK Feed-in tarriffs for
solar installations
approved - 2008
Clean Development Mechanism opens
A key mechanism under the Kyoto Protocol
2006
2008 - CNN cuts entire science and technology budget in 2008
Alaska Gov. Sarah
Palin campaigns
for US presidency
with the slogan “
Drill, baby, drill’
2008
2010 highest ever yearly
increase in global emissions - 5.9%
Canadian
government
withdraws
from Kyoto
This Changes Everything:
Capitalism vs. The Climate
by Naomi Klein 2014
l Warming’
April 2014 is the first
month in human history with
average carbon dioxide
level in Earth’s atmosphere
at 400 ppm
of Fear
richton. A novel
at global warming
ated by environmentalists
ary control is popular with
s in Washington and widely
ss climate change.
Climate Change:
A Summary of the Science
The Royal Society (UK)
USA Today proclaim:
“The debate is over: the globe is warming”
Heartland Institute billboard campaign (2012)
excerpts from e-mails stolen from
climate scientists fuel public skepticism
Copenhagen conference fails
to negotiate binding agreements.
US National Academy warns of
political assaults on scientists
2010
US Republican
majority eliminates
the House Committee
on Global Warming
2011
International Energy Agency
report warns of 6º warming
2011
s‘ paper in
e scientific
climate change
US house of Representatives votes 184-240 against accepting the following resolution:
“the scientific finding of the Environmental Protection Agency that climate change is occuring,
is caused largely by human activities, and poses significant risks to public heath and welfare”
April 2011
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Vanity Fair:
The Green Issue
The Great Global
Warming Swindle
Channel 4 (UK) documentary
formally criticized by Ofcom,
UK broadcasting regulatory
agency. 2007
No Climate Tax
campaign
Climate Change:
Trick or Treat? (CNN)
mass mobilization of the
climate justice movement
Manhattan Declaration on Climate
Change by the International Climate
Science Coalition
World People's Conference on Climate
Change and the Rights of Mother Earth
30,000 gather in Cochabamba, Bolivia - 2010
China overtakes USA
as world's largest CO2
emitter 2007
Syndey
Washington
Chicago Munich
Las Vegas
Washington
NewYork Chicago
International Treaty to Protect
the Sacred. Indigenous action
on tar sands extraction - 2013
'Largest-ever'
climate-change
march in NYC
attended by an
estimated 300k to
400k people - and
marchs in cities
around the world
mobilization of the
climate movement
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Kyoto treaty goes into effect, signed by all major
industrial nations except US and Australia - 2005
“Carbon dioxide. They call it pollution. We call it life.”
disinformation campaign created by The Competitive Enterprise Institute
The Merchants of Doubt
by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway
documents the climate contrarian movement
2010
Bolivia’s chief climate negotiator
Angelica Navarro delivers speech
on climate debt at the UN
To Really Save the Planet, Stop Going Green
by Mike Tidwell rejecting green consumerism