Reflecting on EcoEnco, Environmental Ethics and Deep Ecology

  EcoEnco Recently I spent a wonderful week at the EcoEnco retreat in south-western Western Australia with an intergenerational group of passionate, green, committed, like-minded people. See: https://ecoenco.com     The focus of our work for that week was Deep Ecology.   As our work deepened and our friendships strengthened, I realised that not all… Continue reading Reflecting on EcoEnco, Environmental Ethics and Deep Ecology

Why bother with community engagement, anyway?

April 11, 2010 – 9:43 pm   In the past couple of weeks I have been confronted by many aspects of the community engagement debate. Angry residents questioning my integrity as I try to help them with a local environmental problem I’d say qualifies as a “wicked problem” in their neighbourhood.   Then I experience… Continue reading Why bother with community engagement, anyway?