Magic smartphone trees

Laura Hiscott reviews Brave Green World: How Science Can Save Our Planet by Chris Forman and Claire Asher.

Higher dimensions

In response to Laura Hiscott’s article “Magic smartphone trees” in which she reviews the book Brave Green World: How Science Can Save Our Planet by Chris Forman and Claire Asher.

Place, Being, and Agency

Chapter 3 identifies the special world of Shakespearean comedy in terms of the multiple dimensions of place, something that seems especially pertinent to the comic genre. Shakespeare’s comedies deploy the Renaissance sense of place as capable of being either mundane or magical. Reflecting that dialectic, the association of place with Italy in the comedies calls upon popular notions of that locale as full of contradictions yet open to the possibility of transformation. The comedies often organize locale in terms of a contrast between “regulative” and “protean” places (the latter recalling Frye’s “green world”). Protean environs are enchanted and can enchant, as in As You Like It (which receives extended treatment); they make change and transformative experience possible; and yet they exhibit different degrees of agency in different plays. Notwithstanding its power, the protean world is a nice place to visit, but one would not want to live there. The chapter concludes by assessing the power of place to affect action and meaning in a range of comedies.

Evaluación Ambiental Estratégica: Propuesta complementaria al Plan de Desarrollo y Ordenamiento Territorial (PDOT) del cantón La Joya de los Sachas, Ecuador

El presente estudio tuvo como objetivo elaborar una propuesta de Evaluación Ambiental Estratégica como complemento para el Plan de Desarrollo y Ordenamiento Territorial, basado en el diagnóstico de la situación ambiental del cantón La Joya de los Sachas realizado en una investigación previa y cuyos resultados fueron publicados en la revista Green World Journal en marzo de 2021 con el título “Evaluación Ambiental Estratégica: Diagnóstico de la situación ambiental del cantón La Joya de los Sachas, Ecuador”. La metodológica consideró el Reglamento de la Ley del Sistema Nacional de Evaluación de Impacto Ambiental de la hermana República del Perú, Título III: Del Proceso de Evaluación Ambiental Estratégica de las Políticas, Planes y Programas Públicos, Artículo 63.- Contenido mínimo. Los resultados obtenidos evidencian un alto grado de conveniencia de proponer nuevas estrategias para su inclusión dentro del Plan de Desarrollo y Ordenamiento Territorial Cantonal. Se aspira que los resultados aporten al mejoramiento de la calidad ambiental de la zona y de la calidad de vida de su población con el propósito de lograr un desarrollo sostenible a mediano plazo.

A Marxist Reading of William Blake’s Selected Poetry: Machineries in Green Studies

Being a dweller of Romantic ecology, William Blake familiarizes his readers with the slant of pastoral landscapes through the ecological sensibilities within the promiscuous city. In his poetry, he has speculated the adventurous plantation of slums in the metropolitan city in the light of machineries and matters that pack human in the box of ambitious dreams as the monstrous dreams of the metropolitan historicity root up the pastoral landscapes of Britain. Whereas critics engage themselves to explore the relation to the outcome of numerous English cultural dominations within his poetry, this study revisits the selected ‘ecopoetics’ through the lens of Marxism to explore the threats towards the green world, especially, within the city shore on Thames. Blake as a ‘green prophet’ enunciates the rural life that is pulverized by the mobility of the mechanistic forces of city life. These mechanistic forces are manipulated by the power of government, industrial revolution, commerce, and neo-colonialism in every day’s behavior in order to ensure the submissiveness of the working class in 18th century England. Thus, the paper aims to discuss the Marxist narratives of Blake’s ‘ecosophy’ that warns us against the severe repercussion of machines and its tyrannical reverberations over the marginalized in his selected poetry.

Kearifan Lingkungan Masyarakat Alor dalam Novel Swarna Alor: Impian di Langit Timur Karya Dyah Prameswarie

Alor Community Environmental Wisdom in Swarna Alor Novel: Impian di Langit Timur Written by Dyah Prameswarie ABSTRAKPenelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan hubungan manusia dengan alam ditinjau dari nilai-nilai kearifan lingkungan serta upaya menyeimbangkan lingkungan alam yang dilakukan tokoh dalam novel Swarna Alor: Impian di Langit Timur karya Dyah Prameswarie. Jenis penelitian ini adalah kualitatif dengan pendekatan deskriptif. Data dalam penelitian ini meliputi kutipan terkait hakekat hubungan antara manusia dengan lingkungannya yang berupa kata, frasa, klausa, dan kalimat. Sumber data dari novel Swarna Alor: Impian di Langit Timur. Teknik pengumpulan data pada penelitian ini menggunakan teknik baca dan teknik catat. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan adanya (1) sikap tanggung jawab moral terhadap alam yang dimiliki oleh masyarakat Alor yang selalu taat terhadap aturan, tradisi, dan adat dari nenek moyang terdahulu, (2) sikap solidaritas terhadap alam yang dimiliki oleh tokoh Pak Libana guna mempertahankan tradisi leluhur dan ekosistem alam, (3) kasih sayang dan kepedulian terhadap alam yang dimiliki oleh tokoh utama dengan ikut menjadi anggota Green World, dan (4) sikap tidak mengganggu kehidupan alam masyarakat Alor dan selalu taat pada aturan untuk tidak semena-mena memperlakukan alam.Kata kunci: Kearifan, Lingkungan, Alam Masyrakat AlorABSTRACTThis study aims to describe the relationship between humans and nature in terms of environmental wisdom values and efforts to balance the natural environment by characters in the novel Swarna Alor: Impian di Langit Timur written by Dyah Prameswarie. This type of research is qualitative research with a descriptive data approach. The data in this study including quotes related to the nature of relationship between humans and their relationship in the form of words, phrases, clauses, and setences. Source of the data from the novel Swarna Alor: Impian di Langit Timur. Data collection techniques in this study used the reading technique and note-taking technique. The result of study show that the (1) is the attitude of moral resposibility towards nature that is owned by the Alor people who always obey the traditional and customery rules of their previous ancestors, (2) the attitude of solidarity towards nature owned by Pak Libana figures in order to maintain ancestral traditions and natural ecosystems, (3) affection and concern for nature that are owned by the main by being a member of Green World, and (4) the attitudes of not disturbing the natural life of Alor people and always obey the rules not to treat nature arbitrarily.Keywords: Wisdom, Environment, Nature of Alor Community