Mapping Our Technosphere, This Tuesday. A Free Webinar with Katie Singer
Hart Hagan
Free Webinar: Mapping Our Technosphere To Build Respectful Relations with Nature
Via Zoom, Tuesday, December 9 at 7:00 PM (Eastern Time)
To sustain life, the ecological economist Herman Daly (1938 – 2022) advised: Don’t take from the Earth faster than it can replenish; and don’t waste faster than the Earth can absorb the waste. How can we live by these principles while our communications, vehicles and appliances guzzle fossil fuels and water and generate toxic waste?
Katie Singer will map how mass-produced technologies impact nature from their cradles-to-graves. She’ll outline technology’s four pillars: the power grid, manufacturing, access networks and data centers.
She’ll share what she’s learned to decrease extractions, energy use and water use; and then invite each of us to live with the question: How/could changing our tech use reduce biodiversity loss, water pollution and fossil fuel use?
KATIE SINGER has resisted electronics since childhood and tried to reduce her consumption by 3% per month…with questionable results. She spoke about the Internet’s impacts on nature at the United Nations and on a panel with the climatologist Dr. James Hansen. Her books include An Electronic Silent Spring, The Garden of Fertility, Honoring Our Cycles, Honoring Our Cycles in Africa, and The Wholeness of a Broken Heart (a novel). She publishes at https://katiesinger.substack.com/.