Webinar, Dec. 9: Building Respectful Relations with Nature by Mapping Our Technosphere
Hart Hagan
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/.
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