Recalibrating reality with authors from the climate fiction anthology Fire & Water: Stories from the Anthropocene — The Ultimate Cli-Fi Book Club for Sustainability in Higher Education Last night I met a friend for a walk in the neighborhood. She had experienced a long illness, and I was gladdened to see her long swinging ponytail as she jogged towards me in the twilight technicolor of the Honolulu valley where we both live. I love a good walk-and-talk…

Interview with Dr. Tina Evans, Colorado Mountain College — I first encountered Tina Evans during the literature review stage of my doctoral dissertation, circa 2005, when I was devouring everything I could find about sustainability curriculum in higher education. I had started out in Educational Psychology, but switched to Educational Administration when my advisor told me that my proposed…

Reflections on the novel, Anthem, by Noah Hawley — The Ultimate Cli-Fi Book Club for Sustainability in Higher Education Suicide is a sticky kind of grief. It’s like climate grief in this way: suicide and climate collapse are both things that are incomprehensible until they happen, but then once it happens close to you, you can’t un-think about it…

a recap of the kickoff webinar for The 2022 Ultimate Cli-Fi Book Club course hosted by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education — I’ve been percolating a backlog of topics for the Ultimate Cli Fi Book Club. I’m thinking about the novel, Severance, by Ling Ma (zombies, coming of age, apocalypse, and Asian American experience) and Nature’s End, an obscure paperback from 1988 by Whitley Strieber, who I think is a great writer…

with fisherman-poet-teacher Scott T. Starbuck — “ Not everything that is faced can be solved, but nothing can be solved until it is faced.” — James Baldwin I started the Teaching Climate Change in Higher Education research project in the halcyon January of 2020. I am nearing the fiftieth post, which means the fiftieth interview, which…

What does the film, Youth v. Gov. mean for higher education? — Think about it: the rights of youth in the climate crisis came into the spotlight when Greta Thunberg started Skolstrejk för klimatet — which if you don’t speak Swedish well, translates into English as a SCHOOL strike. Sure, they were in high school then (and we college professors love to…

It starts with a strange feeling, always in my right eye. Like I can almost see something that maybe is or maybe isn’t there. This premonitory feeling is followed by the appearance of a multicolored jagged line in the shape of a fishhook that opens up in my vision. Like…

a guest interview with Dr. Miku Lenentine, Coordinator of the Center for Resilient Neighborhoods at Kapi’olani Community College I have a group of favorite colleagues who are amazing teachers. I’ve interviewed some of them for this blog: Chih-Hao (“A Ham Sandwich is Better than Nothing”, Linda, (“This is not just…

Considering the film Don’t Look Up from the perspective of higher education This actual headline caught my eye, even though it was buried in the links of my weekly campus bulletin. In a nine-paragraph press release, I learned that University of Hawaii biologist Robert Cowie, collaborating with French researchers, had…