The following are remarks offered at the Peter B. Lewis Center on the campus of Oberlin College to open a recent two-day forum titled, “The State of American Democracy“: In 1952 theologian Reinhold Niebuhr wrote: “For if we should...
Post Carbon Fellow David Orr’s address on ‘Climate Change and the Crisis of American Democracy’ at Grinnell College was reported in this article. From the article: For Orr, the issue of climate change is political, but it is not...
Post Carbon Fellow David Orr was asked about the books that have inspired him in the Times Higher Education Books Interview. From the interview: Which were the key books that raised your awareness of ecological issues and spurred you...
Post Carbon Fellows David Orr and Michael Shuman will be among the keynote speakers at this follow-up to the first and highly successful Local Prosperity Annapolis Royal Conference held in Annapolis County, Nova Scotia in April 2015.
Post Carbon Fellow David Orr will be speaking at Iowa State University on Dangerous Years: Climate Change in the Long Emergency. Orr’s talk is co-sponsored by the MFA Program in Creative Writing and Environment, the Office of Sustainability, Pearl...
Post Carbon Fellow David Orr’s participation in the interfaith Earthkeeping summit at Ohio State University was reported in the National Catholic Reporter. From the article: Climate change again entered a dialogue on the morning of Oct. 13, as David...
Post Carbon Fellow David Orr and his son, the Reverend Daniel Orr presented and conversed at the 2014 Earthkeeping Summit, an event hosted by Ohio Interfaith Power and Light and The Ohio State University School of Environment and Natural...
A Marine Corps friend of mine defines resilience as the ability to take a gut punch and come back swinging. More formally, it is said to be the capacity to maintain core functions and values in the face of...
Post Carbon Fellow David Orr was interviewed by the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies in the Huffington Post. From the interview: Omega: In 2011, you published Hope Is an Imperative, an essay collection that explores some of the dilemmas around...
Photo credit: Stuck in Customs / Flickr. Creative Commons 2.0 license. “We live in an interconnected world”, the author argues. In Brief The idea that nothing exists in isolation−but only as part of a system−has long been embedded in...