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Friendships are part of my scholarship. In the words of one friend, the environmental humanist John Levi Barnard, here are some things you might see me claiming in my work:

The human is ecological: the distinction between humanity and “environment” is something we should get beyond.
Philosophy [i]s a way of life: relationality, human scale, neighborhoods, family, the personal.

Freedom and justness are fundamental elements of our humanity.
We become free by letting go (you’ve sometimes talked about this as “unwinding" also) of systems, structures, infrastructures, and ideologies of domination, extraction, instrumentalization.
By getting beyond narcissism.
Narcissism stunts our humanity and limits our freedom: “humankind isn’t free when humans are locked up in narcissism."
To be truly free is to acknowledge all our relations: to others and the [E]arth.
This is also to be “down”—in literal and figurative sense with the [E]arth and its creatures.

The heart of community is being able to have good relationships and to talk things through together. When communication breaks down, community goes sideways. But remember, communication can be silent.

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Some of the internet sites for the essays I wrote are now shut down or erratic. Some of the scholarly volumes are hard to find. There's still a lot of Open Access stuff available. If you want to look at but can't get any of the non-Open Access publications, just shoot me an email. I'll do what I can to assist. Thanks for your interest -- and for stopping by.