Here is the second essay inspired by my recent return to the California's awe-inspiring Sierra Nevada; tinyurl.com/Adnature
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A personal essay as I return, at least part time, to California and its wildlands. URL: tinyurl.com/SierraHome
Going Home to the Range of Light
. . . and Belonging to Nature in California’s Sierra Nevada
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Epstein survivors released this video today urging senators to block the confirmation of Todd Blanche for Attorney General. They’re trying to get to 20,000 signatures on their petition to send a message to the Senate. ujoin.co/campaigns/45...
Just posted: my third Substack essay shaped, in part, from my 2016 experience in Iran. I welcome any comments here, or at the substack venue. See: tinyurl.com/IRAN-JCPOA
A Promise Abandoned and Iranian Reformers Betrayed
How the death of the nuclear deal cut down the Iranians pushing their country toward openness
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Here is the second of my Iran-focused essays, based on my unusual 2016 experience there for a UN-related conference. tinyurl.com/EcoIran2016
Hope and Heresy in 2016 Iran
At a UN-sponsored meeting in Tehran, Iranian officials, religious leaders, and environmental scholars imagined a different future.
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The first of several reflections on my 2016 experiences in Iran, which will lead to analysis of the current debacle there. See tinyurl.com/Tehranlife
Into the Underworld: King Tut's Burial Chamber and Its Secrets -- tinyurl.com/Tut2tomb -- my second essay based on my wanderings in Egypt! Also available via a free subscription to my Substack @profbrontaylor
Three weeks ago I launched my Substack. The essays and conversations will be wide ranging, as exemplified here. What I did not say is that some of these will not only be interesting but fun! I do hope you'll find time to check it out, and let me know what you think. tinyurl.com/TutRel
The Resurrection of Tutankhamun (aka King Tut)
A Terranaut Dispatch from the Grand Egyptian Museum
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Here is my second, substantive essay since launching my Substack two weeks ago. It introduces the approach, framework, and argument, in my best known book. tinyurl.com/DGRintro
My latest Substack, honoring my dad and other antifascists. tinyurl.com/antifa-memor...
Antifascism & Memorial Day
On Memorial Day in the USA, where we honor those who serve and all too often die in the military, I think of my dad, James Carlton Taylor.
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A week ago I posted an essay announcing and explaining my intentions inas I launched my Substack (ICUMI, just look back for the post a week ago). This morning I posted my first substantive essay; check it out (and please consider subscribing) open.substack.com/pub/profbron...
The Liberating Power of the Sociology of Knowledge
On epistemology, humility, and the quest for truth
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After 4 decades researching religion, nature & environmental ethics, I've launched a Substack — serious engagement with the big questions, field dispatches from wherever I wander, and judicious muckraking. Come find me: tinyurl.com/brontaylor #DarkGreenReligion #Substack
Who I Am and what I intend with my Substack
Before I became a professor I spent fifteen formative years as a California State Park Lifeguard at Huntington Beach, Ventura, and Malibu.
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I just launched my substack with an essay about his encounter with the late Ted Turner, which includes mymusings about his Bison-related conservationist legacy. open.substack.com/pub/profbron...
Viva Ted Turner
A brief encounter with the man who put bison back on the plains — and a thank‐you to a quiet hero of conservation
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In “Religion & Climate (In)action” I explain why most religionists have not mobilized, why many scholars remain unduly sanguine about that prospect, and what religion’s mystifying power portends for an accelerating environmental apocalypse. Free at: doi.org/10.1515/9783... Comments & debate welcome.
Immediately after Donald Trump's inauguration, his administration began purging environmental security reports from the public record. "Running blind: The silencing and censoring of environmental threats to US national security," by @petergleick.bsky.social.
Running blind: The silencing and censoring of environmental threats to US national security
After Donald Trump's inauguration, his administration began purging environmental security reports from the public record.
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On nearly every front involving social justice or environmental sanity, the USA under Trump and his cruel minions is moving backward. An important datapoint is . . . wapo.st/4j6UZSP
A stunning number of electric vehicle, battery factories are being canceled
Billions of dollars in clean energy projects have been canceled since Donald Trump took office again.
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An excellent overview; every week I speak with scientists whose important lifework work is being destroyed by Trump and those who demonize science and scientists. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We are witnessing the destruction of science in America | Paul Darren Bieniasz
If we stay on this administration’s course, future life-saving medicines may never be invented
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I love Corey Booker, who channels the spirit of Martin King more powerfully than anyone else today.
Trump will overplay his hand. Be ready for when he does. open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
Trump will overplay his hand. Be ready for when he does.
Friends,
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