Book Reviews, Articles and More
Canadian Dimension articles
I recently rediscovered a series of articles written for Canadian Dimension (CD),
Deep
Ecology and The Green Movement by D. Orton, The New
Catalyst,
Number 6, Winter 1986/87. This is an evaluation of Deep
Ecology: Living as if
Nature Matters, by Bill Devall and George
Sessions.
For the authors' response,
see Devall, The New Catalyst, Number 7,
Spring 1987
and Sessions, The New
Catalyst, Number 8, Summer 1987. (Note
additional
deep ecology book reviews/
critical assessments, of Arne Naess, Warwick Fox,
Robin
Eckersley, Andrew Dobson,
David Rothenberg, Richard Sylvan, Gandhi, Rudolf
Bahro and
Joanna Macy.)
The New
Politics
of the Environment Book review by D. Orton of Red And
Green, edited by Joe Weston, Pluto Press,
1986.
Published in the New Catalyst,
Winter 1987/88.
A
German
View of the German Greens, a review by David Orton of The
German
Greens: A Social and Political Profile by Werner
Hülsberg, 1988. Published in The
New Catalyst, April 1989.
Points of Consideration re: The Earth First!
Debate
- Letter published
in the Earth First! Journal Dec.21, 1990, and
in
the Glacial
Erratic, Winter 1990.
Informed
Consent
or Informed Rejection of Pesticide Use – a concept for environmental
action against forest spraying, Philosophy and Social Action, India, Vol. 16, No. 4,
Oct.-Dec. 1990.
Pesticides: Points of
Contention, by D. Orton, January 1991, published in InforMed,
a journal of The Medical Society of Nova
Scotia.
Book
review by D. Orton of Toward A
Transpersonal Ecology: Developing
New
Foundations For
Environmentalism , by Warwick Fox, 1990. Printed in
Canadian Dimension, under the title "New
Age deep ecology", September 1991,
Vol. 25, No. 6.
An
Alternative Vision for Wildlife in Nova Scotia A three-page
document
by the
Green Web, presented at a "Wildlife Strategy"
conference, in response to the position
paper Today's Challenge – Tomorrow's Legacy, A
Wildlife
Strategy For Nova
Scotia, January 1992.
Nova
Scotia's Forests Under Assault
September 1992. Eight pages. A
composite article, by the Coalition for Alternatives
to
Pesticides and the Green Web.
Ecofeminism:
Personal
Reflections - article by
David
Orton, submitted to the
Australian movement publication, formerly called The
Deep Ecologist, December 6, 1992.
No to Plantation
Forestry, letter by D. Orton, published in Wilderness
Alberta,
Vol. 22 No. 4, December 1992.
Book review by D. Orton, of Trouble
In The Woods: Forest Policy and Social
Conflict
in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, edited by L. Anders
Sandberg.
Fredericton: Acadiensis Press, 1992. Shortened
version
published in Wild Lands
Advocate, the news quarterly of the Alberta
Wilderness Association, October 1993,
under the title, "No Green Vision Of The
Forest." Full version published in
Canadian Dimension, October-November 1994,
Vol. 28,
No. 5.
Nematode Alert Two
one-page statements issued in April 1993 by the Green
Web, alerting environmentalists and the public to
the use of
nematodes as a
"biological control" against the debarking weevil,
the spruce budmoth, and other
so-called pests.
Fighting
Forest Spraying in Nova Scotia article by D.
Orton, Earth
First!
Journal December 1993.
Book review by D. Orton of Ecology,
Community and Lifestyle, 1989, by
Arne Naess. Printed in CNS, Volume 4(4),
Issue
Sixteen, December 1993.
Book review by D. Orton of Environmentalism
and Political Theory: Toward
an
Ecocentric
Approach , by Robyn Eckersley, 1992. Published in the British
journal Green Line, under the title "Ecocentricity",
No. 107, May 1993.
Book review by D. Orton of Green
Political
Thought: An Introduction, by
Andrew Dobson, 1990. Printed in Canadian
Dimension,
May-June 1994, Vol. 28,
No. 3.
Book review by D. Orton of Conversations
With Arne Naess: Is It Painful
To
Think?
by David Rothenberg, 1993, under the title "Revised deep
ecology
platform surprising and disheartening". Printed
in Alternatives, September/
October 1994, Vol. 20, No. 4. (Arne Naess by
personal letter
of Jan. 10, 1997,
has denied Rothenberg's assertion that 'sustainable
development' was to be
included in the 8-point Deep Ecology Platform.)
In
Memory of Richard Sylvan. Tribute to a friend (1935-1996),
and
influential Australian deep ecologist, philosopher
and
forestry activist, on learning
of his death on June 16, 1996. Published in The
Trumpeter,
Winter 1997, Vol. 14,
No. 1.
Biocides: The Larger Picture by D. Orton. Talk to a
community
meeting in
Corner Brook, Newfoundland on August 13, 1997.
Thinking
about
Gandhi by D. Orton, Nov. 30, 1997. A response to
reading
Robert Payne's 1969 book Life and Death of
Mahatma Gandhi
and an
assessment of the place of Gandhi's thinking in the
radical
environmental movement
and in deep ecology.
A Critique of Biological Controls by D. Orton, Dec. 7, 1997. A
list of
general
points that need to be made about the use of
biological
controls from a left biocentric
philosophical perspective. Published under the title
"Biological
Controls Not
Harmless" in Watershed Sentinel,
Vol. 8,
No. 2, June/July 1998. Also published as
an Opinion article in the Chronicle Herald
April 21,
1998.
Rudolf
Bahro (1935-1997): A Tribute by D. Orton. A brief
evaluation of
this
important German green philosopher and activist, on
learning
of his death. Includes
a listing of his publications available in English.
Published in Socialist Studies Bulletin
No. 50 (Oct.-Dec 1997); Canadian Dimension.
March-April 1998, Vol. 32, No. 2;
and, in abridged form, The Way Ahead, No.
36, January
1998. It was also translated
into Spanish as "Rudolf
Bahro
(1935 - 1997): Un tributo". For more on Bahro, see
the Rudolf-Bahro-Archiv
(in German).
Do activists need ESAC, by D. Orton. An article
encouraging
environmental
activists to join the Environmental Studies
Association of
Canada. Published in the
ESAC promotions newsletter, April 1998.
Green
Ethics, a review by D. Orton of the book The Greening
of Ethics:
From Human Chauvinism to Deep-Green Theory by
Richard
Sylvan and
David Bennett, May 1998.
Left
Biocentrism
Primer,
March
1998. This ten-point primer presents an
overview of left biocentrism. It has been printed in
a
number of movement magazines,
such as The Northern Forest Forum, Summer
Solstice
1998, Vol. 6 No. 5, the
British publication The Way Ahead, Spring
Issue, No.
38, April 1998, and Feral:
A Journal Towards Wildness, Spring 1999, Vol.
1, No.
1. (The Primer is also
included as part of Bulletin #63.)
Winin:
Memories, February 1999. A brief commentary by D. Orton on
the
death of Winin Pereira (1928-1999), founder of the
Centre
for Holistic Studies in
Bandra, India; plus a commentary by Jeremy Seabrook.
(Published in Indranet,
“Winin Pereira Memorial Issue”,
Issues #31-34,
February 2000, Bandra, India.)
Aquaculture Perils by
Helga Hoffmann, March 1999. A letter to the editor
dealing with some environmental problems of
shellfish
farming.
Selected
Deep
Ecology and Other Readings
- an annotated bibliography by
D. Orton, March 1999. Published in The Northern
Forest
Forum, Mid-Spring 1999,
Vol. 7, No. 4.
Redefining Woodlots, April 1999. Letter to the editor by
Billy
MacDonald and
David Orton, presenting the view that small woodlot
owners
no longer have the right
to destroy their woodlots for economic reasons.
Printed in
several Nova Scotia
newspapers.
NATO's Ecocide, May
1999. Letter to the editor by Helga Hoffmann, expressing
concern for the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia and the
callous
disregard for its
environmental and human costs. Printed in
several
provincial and national newspapers.
Massive Seal Killing, May 1999. A letter to the editor by
D.
Orton, published in
Atlantic Canada, opposing the massive seal slaughter
plans
of the so-called Fisheries
Resource Conservation Council, in their Report of
April
1999.
Commentary
on The Ecological Footprint by
D. Orton. Printed in Elements,
the online magazine of the New Brunswick
Environmental
Network, September 1999:
http://www.elements.nb.ca/theme/greenlife/footprint/footprint.htm
Report of the Red Tail Deep Ecology Rendezvous, by
David Orton and Helga
Hoffmann, September 1999.
Re-evaluating
Traditions,
book
review by D. Orton of the book Animals and
Nature: Cultural Myths, Cultural Realities,
by Rod
Preece, UBC Press, 1999.
Published in the Journal of International
Wildlife Law
& Policy, vol. 2:3 (1999).
Treaty Follies -
Letter
to the editor by D. Orton, dealing with the Donald Marshall
Supreme Court Decision. Published as an Opinion
article in the Chronicle Herald
September 29, 1999.
Reject the Royal Commission Aboriginal Model Letter to
the editor
by D. Orton,
putting the Donald Marshall Decision in a larger
context,
October 17, 1999. Printed in
the Brunswickan, 1999 at
http://www.unb.ca/bruns/9900/issue7/oped/letter3.html
Going
Deeper,
book review by D. Orton of The Ecological Indian: Myth and
History by Shepard Krech III, W. W. Norton
&
Company, 1999. Published on the
Indian website The Reviewer at
http://members.rediff.com/thereviewer/24101999p.htm
Ten
Environmental Books by David Orton, December 20, 1999.
Short
reviews
of ten books, ranked in order of preference, on an
environmental journey to a radical
ecological awareness. Published as “Ten Books on the
Environment” in Green
Voices, Issue #12, January 2000 (newsletter
of the
Kootenay-Boundary Greens in
British Columbia).
Marine
Protected Areas:
A Human-Centric Concept by
D. Orton, published in
the Earth First! Journal, December
1999/January, 2000
(Vol. 20, No. 2). Also
published in The Northern Forest Forum,
Summer
Solstice 2000, Vol. 8, No. 3.
Deep
Ecology
and Animal Rights: A Discussion Paper by D. Orton, based on
exchanges in the internet discussion group "left
bio", January 09, 2000.
On the Deep Ecology Path by David Orton. A short overview
article. Printed in
Green Anarchy, No. 1, Summer 2000. An edited
version,
under the title
“Delving Deeper”, was published in Clearcutting
in Perspective, Nova Scotia
Public Interest Group, Vol. VIII, Spring 2000.
Is
Left
Biocentrism Relevant to Green Parties? Talk to the Green
Party of
Canada convention in Ottawa, August 06, 2000. The
talk
included a discussion of
deep ecology, fundamental dilemmas facing activists,
the
"left" in left biocentrism,
and handling contradictions within left biocentrism.
Published in the online Canadian
deep ecology magazine The Trumpeter, Vol.
16, No. 1,
at
http://trumpeter.athabascau.ca/content/v16.1/
Let the Trees Be - A letter to the editor by D. Orton,
opposing
the cutting of
trees in Point Pleasant Park, Halifax, Nova Scotia,
because
of the brown spruce
longhorn beetle. Published in a number of provincial
newspapers in June 2000,
and in the Earth First! Journal,
September-October
2000, Vol. 20, No. 8.
No Moral Authority: Comment on ‘Managing’ Crown Land Forests
by
D. Orton, September 2000, 3 pages. (A shortened
version
appeared as an opinion
article in the Halifax Daily News under the
title “Companies
Rule Natural
Resources”, and as a letter to the editor in
a number
of other Nova Scotia
newspapers. It also appeared in the newsletter of
the
Friends of Nature Conservation
Society, Chester, NS, May 16, 2001.)
A
Commentary on Green Political Thought by Andrew Dobson by
David
Orton, November 07, 2000. Printed in the Socialist
Studies Bulletin, No. 61,
July-September 2000.
Anthropocentrism
and Theoretical Fatalism: A Comment on the Terms of
Reference
of the
‘Eminent Panel on Seal Management by David Orton,
November 23, 2000. Printed in The Northern
Forest Forum,
Candlemas 2001,
Vol. 8, No. 6.
Al
Gore’s
Ideological Limitations: A Commentary on ‘Earth in the Balance’
by D. Orton, December 31, 2000. Printed in The
Northern
Forest Forum, Candlemas
2001, Vol. 8, No. 6.
Joanna
Macy and the CIA by D. Orton, June 2001. A critical comment
on
Joanna
Macy’s past links with the CIA, as shown in her
memoir
Widening Circles, and the
implications for deep ecology.
Globalization
from below or ending industrial civilization? A Commentary
-
an evaluation by D. Orton of Maude Barlow’s and Tony
Clarke’s book Global Showdown,
July 2001. Printed in abbreviated form in Canadian
Dimension, Vol. 35, No. 5, September/
October 2001. Published in the September 2001
edition of the
online magazine of the New
Brunswick Environmental Network, Elements:
http://www.elements.nb.ca/theme/globalization/davido/david.htm
Democracy and Forest Spraying by D. Orton, August 15, 2001.
Letter
to the editor
published in various Nova Scotia newspapers, and as
an
Opinion article in the Chronicle
Herald of August 24, 2001, under the title
“Eventually, we’ll have to accept Earth-centered
values”.
Daring
Fishing
Revelations by
D.
Orton, September 01, 2001. A review/commentary
of Michael Dwyer’s book, Sea of Heartbreak: The
Extraordinary Account of a
Newfoundland Fishing Voyage. Published in Synthesis/Regeneration
28, Spring 2002,
http://www.greens.org/s-r/ Also printed
in The
Northern Forest Forum, Vol. 9, No. 1,
Fall 2001.
'Wise
Use' View on Bear Attacks by D. Orton, October 20, 2001. A
review
of James
Gary Shelton's book Bear Attacks II: Myth and
Reality.
Published under the title “The
Wise Use Bears” in The Northern
Forest
Forum, Vol. 9, No. 3, Summer 2002
Disembodied
Activism - A book review of Tim Falconer’s Watchdogs
and
Gadflies:
Activism From Marginal To Mainstream,
November 2001.
Printed in the Socialist
Studies Bulletin, No. 65, July-December 2001.
Also
published in the online magazine
Elements:
http://www.elements.nb.ca/theme/resolutions/dorton/book.htm
Notes from a Deep Ecology Talk -
Selected text from a talk by David Orton
in January 2002, to students in environmental
studies at
Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S.
An edited version was published in February 2002 in
the
online magazine Elements:
http://www.elements.nb.ca/theme/ethics/deep/ecology.htm
Toxic
Downwinds: No Redress - A
review of Andrew Nikiforuk’s Saboteurs:
Wiebo Ludwig’s War Against Big Oil. Printed
in an
edited version in the Earth First!
Journal, Vol. 22, No. 3, February-March 2002.
Also
printed in the Watershed
Sentinel (http://www.rfu.org/ws121.htm#Toxic
Downwinds),
Vol. 12, No. 1, February/
March 2002, and in the Socialist Studies Bulletin,
No. 66, January-March 2002.
Cuba Down Side: Pesticide Spraying and Further Considerations
by D.
Orton,
March 2, 2002
Some
Conservation Guidelines for the Acadian Forest, by D.
Orton,
October 14,
2002. Published in The Northern Forest Forum,
Winter
Solstice 2002, Vol. 9, No. 4.
Also published in shortened form as an Opinion
article in The
Chronicle Herald, October
17, 2002, under the title "New Vision needed for
conservation of Acadian forest".
Appeared in shortened version in the Prince Edward
Island
daily The Guardian, on
November 1st, 2002.
Reflections
on Buddhism and Deep Ecology, by David Orton, November
2002. A
review essay of the book Dharma Rain:
Sources of
Buddhist Environmentalism,
edited by Stephanie Kaza and Kenneth Kraft.
Civilizational
Clash: Deep Green Implicatons A review of Samuel
Huntington's
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking
of
World Order, January 2003, by
D. Orton. Printed in the online journal The
Trumpeter,
Vol. 19.2. See
http://trumpeter.athabascau.ca/content/v19.2/
'Sustainable' Forestry in Nova Scotia? A review essay by
David
Orton of two
books: Forestkeeping: A History of the
Department of
Lands and Forests in
Nova Scotia 1926-1969, by Dr. William
Creighton; and Forests
of Nova Scotia: A
History, by Ralph S. Johnson. Published in The
Northern Forest Forum, Winter
Solstice 2002, Vol. 9, No. 4.
Key Deep Ecology Ideas by David Orton. Notes for a talk
on deep
ecology given on
March 6, 2003 during Environment Week at St. Francis
Xavier
University, Nova Scotia.
Missionary
Global Christianity by D. Orton. A review of The Next
Christendom:
The Coming of Global Christianity, by Philip
Jenkins.
March 2003.
Iraq's National Survival: Ethical Choices by D. Orton,
April
2003.
Seals and Greens: Some Value Conflicts by D. Orton, May
2003.
Published in the
online Green Party Review, Vol. 1, No.
1, at
http://www.uoguelph.ca/~whulet/GPR/Vol1_Issue1/Seal_Hunt.htm
Defining Capitalism A short essay by David Orton, August
2003.
Deep
Ecology Perspectives, by D. Orton. An article based
on a
number of talks in
Nova Scotia, about the importance of deep ecology,
as well
as some of its contradictions.
Published in Synthesis/Regeneration, a US
magazine of
Green Social Thought, issue #32,
Fall 2003, at http://www.greens.org/s-r/index.html.
Available in Russian at
http://www.ln.com.ua/~kekz/hem6s/philos5.htm.
Also published in Spiritroots
Communications: A 21st Century Social
Gospel for
Canadians, Issue #4, July 2006 at
http://www.spiritroots.ca/articles.htm#DEEP
and republished in issue #9, 2010 at
http://www.spiritroots.ca/sp.html
Deep
Ecology and Criticism Book review by D. Orton, of Philosophical
Dialogues:
Arne Naess and the Progress of Ecophilosophy, October
2003.
Off-Highway Vehicle Use: A Reflection of Industrialized Society's
Alienation from
the Natural World. Presentation by D.
Orton to
a public meeting on October 21, 2003 in
Truro, Nova Scotia. (An Opinion article "OHV
Use:
Alienation from Natural World" was
published in The Chronicle Herald, February
28,
2004.)
The
Ecocentric Left and Green Electoralism, a commentary by D.
Orton,
August 2004.
Published in the Socialist Studies Bulletin,
Number
74, Fall/Winter 2004. Also published in
Synthesis/Regeneration #36, Winter 2005,
http://www.greens.org/s-r/36/36-26.html
Ecocentric
Transformation - a review essay by David Orton, of
Nature,
Environment
and Society, by sociologist Philip W. Sutton,
October
2004.
A
Left perspective in deep ecology - a posting to the leftbio
discussion group by D. Orton, on
The Culture Of Extinction: Toward A Philosophy Of
Deep
Ecology, by Frederick Bender,
October 2004.
Left
Biocentrism, a 1,000-word entry in the Encyclopedia
of
Religion and Nature, 1st Edition,
Volume 2: K-Z, pp.1003-1005, 2005, Thoemmes
Continuum,
Bristol,
England, ISBN 1 843711389.
Economic Philosophy and Green Electoralism - a contribution by
D. Orton
to a discussion on
Green Economics, published in Synthesis/Regeneration
#37, Spring 2005, see
http://www.greens.org/s-r/37/37-12.html
Which
Way Forward? - A review essay by David Orton,
of Manifesto
For A New World Order,
by George Monbiot, April 2005.
Are
Things
Getting Better? A forestry criticism review
by David
Orton of At the Cutting Edge:
The Crisis in Canada's Forests by
Elizabeth May
(2005)
Ecological
Marxism, Intrinsic Value and Human-Centeredness
A
review by David Orton of
The Enemy of Nature: The End of Capitalism
or the End
of the World? by Joel Kovel (2005)
Conflict
and Marxism in Deep Ecology A review by David Orton
of Wisdom
In the Open Air:
The Norwegian Roots Of Deep Ecology,
edited
by Peter Reed and David Rothenberg (2005)
Disconnect:
Environmental Theory and Activism
A
review essay by David Orton of Main Currents
In Western Environmental Thought by Peter Hay
(2005)
Press
Releases and Brochure for
Green Party of Canada candidate David Orton,
Federal Election Campaign
2005-06.
The
Green Movement and the Deep Ecology Movement A talk
by David
Orton at the New Glasgow Library,
February 2006.
A
Critical Appreciation: The Selected Works of Arne Naess A
review by
David Orton of The Selected
Works of Arne Naess, Volumes 1-10, edited by
Harold
Glasser with assistance from Alan Drengson in
cooperation with the author, April 2006. (Excerpt
published
in Rhizome, the newsletter of the Environmental
Studies Association of Canada, Vol. 15, No. 2, May
2006, see
http://www.thegreenpages.ca/esac/newsletters/Rhizome15-2.pdf)
Some Critical Thoughts on the NDP by
David
Orton, in Synthesis/Regeneration 40, Summer 2006, see
http://www.greens.org/s-r/40/40-09.html
Reclaiming
the Commons: Responding to Climate Change and Peak Oil, an
article
by David Orton,
June 2006. Also available at Canadian Dimension,
http://canadiandimension.com/articles/2006/06/07/499/
and in Synthesis/Regeneration 43, Spring
2007.
What
Green electoral culture? A discussion by D. Orton about the
philosophical direction for the Canadian
Green Party, July 2006.
Environmental Activists who are Changing the
World
Six short biographies on Don Sullivan, David Orton,
Elizabeth May, Claude Villeneuve, David Martin and
Judy Da
Silva, Canadian Dimension, July/August 2006,
Volume 40, Number 4.
What
makes a deep green lawyer? An article by David Orton,
August 2006.
Printed in Synthesis/
Regeneration 42, Winter 2007.
Green Party Shadow Cabinet Reflections
by
David Orton, September 2006.
Illuminating
Reality: An Old Growth Activist Life, review of Paul
George's book "Big
Trees, Not Big Stumps",
by David Orton, October 2006.
Green Policy Forum in Halifax: A Comment,
by David Orton, November 2006.
The
World of Robert Fisk: An Examination of Prejudice, review
by David
Orton of the book The Great
War For Civilization: The Conquest Of The Middle East
by
Robert Fisk, December 2006.
Green Politics requires shift in consciousness.
Opinion article by David Orton, see The Chronicle Herald,
April 19, 2007.
Mixed
Messages in the Pursuit of Ecological Sustainability, a
review
essay by David Orton of the book
Gaining Ground: In Pursuit of Ecological
Sustainability,
edited by David M. Lavigne, September 2007.
Uranium
Exploration and Mining: Some Considerations, an account of
why a
moratorium on uranium
exploration and mining was introduced in Nova Scotia
in
1982, and its relevance for today; by David Orton,
November 2007.
Off-Road
Vehicles and Deep Ecology: Cultural Clash and Alienation from the
Natural World
by
David Orton, in Thrillcraft: The Environmental
Consequences of Motorized Recreation, 2007,
Foundation for Deep Ecology.
Monbiot
and Deep Dilemmas - a book review by David Orton of George
Monbiot's Heat: How To Stop The
Planet From Burning by George Monbiot.
Published in Synthesis/Regeneration
# 45,
Winter 2008.
Historical
Memory and Victors’ ‘Justice’: A Meditation - a
book
review and meditation by David Orton of
After The Reich: The Brutal History Of The Allied
Occupation
by Giles MacDonogh, February 2008.
Stan
Rowe: A Canadian Earthling - a review essay by David Orton,
of two
books by Stan Rowe, Earth Alive:
Essays On Ecology and Home Place:
Essays on
Ecology, June 2008.
“They
shall not pass”: The Spanish Civil War and the Canadian Left
- a review essay by David Orton, of the
book Renegades: Canadians In The Spanish Civil
War,
by Michael Petrou, July 2008; with Addendum on the
1969 book The Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion:
Canadian
Participation in the Spanish Civil War by Victor
Hoar.
Short
talk on Left Biocentrism - Notes from a talk at a San
Francisco
conference "Is Capitalism Soon Over?"
(October 6-8, 2008) hosted by the International
Forum on
Globalization.
Murray
Bookchin: the Front is Narrow - a review by David Orton of
the book
Bookchin: A Critical Appraisal,
by Damian F. White, December 2008.
Remembering
Arne Naess (1912-2009) - a response to the death of Arne
Naess, by
David Orton, January 14, 2009.
Reproduced in Culture Change, Dandelion
Times:
A Left Biocentric Online Journal, Environment, Technology and
Sociology, a newsletter of the American
Sociological
Association, Winter 2009, Culturequake, Energy Bulletin,
Post Carbon Institute, March 1st, 2009, International
Society for Environmental Ethics Newsletter, Spring/
Summer 2009 and Lower Island News (B.C.),
Volume 26,
#4.
Climate
Change Pollyannas - a review essay by David Orton, of Global
Warming For Dummies, by Elizabeth May
and Zoë Caron, February 2009. Reproduced in
full or in part
by Canadian Dimension, Green Politics, Culture
Change,
The Free Online Library, Red Pepper, Dandelion
Times, and Synthesis/Regeneration.
Selective
Inclusiveness: A Forestry Review - a review by David Orton,
of Restoring the Acadian Forest: A Guide to
Forest Stewardship for Woodlot Owners in the
Maritimes,
by Jamie Simpson, April 2009.
Deeper
Organic Agriculture - article written in response to a
request from
the Organic
Agriculture Centre of Canada,
following the death of Arne Naess. May 2009. Also
published
online in Culture Change, August 2009 and in Environment,
Technology and Sociology, a newsletter of the
American
Sociological Association, Summer 2009. Published as "Deep
Philosopher Arne Naess" in The
Population
Press, Winter/Spring 2010, Volume 16, Number 1.
Disrobing
Assumptions, a review by David Orton of Disrobing
The
Aboriginal Industry, by Frances Widdowson and
Albert Howard, August 2009.
The
Thinking of Pentti Linkola: A Review an evaluation of his
book of
essays Can Life Prevail? A Radical
Approach to the Environmental Crisis, August
2009. Published in Lower Island News (B.C.), Vol. 26,
No. 5, October/November 2009.
Radical Thinking: A Commentary - some
comments
on Julienne Ford's 2008 book Never Point at a Rainbow:
An Introduction to Radical Logic, September
2009.
Published in Lower Island News (B.C.), Vol. 26, No. 5,
October/November 2009.
Is wilderness for human pleasure or non-human
life?
- an Opinion article by David Orton in the Chronicle Herald,
October 21, 2009. Also printed in Lower
Island
News (B.C.), Vol. 26, No. 6, December 2009/January 2010.
Light
Green Environmental Sociology: A Commentary - a critical assessment of An Invitation to
Environmental
Sociology by Michael M. Bell, October 2009.
Judy
Davis - Portrait of an Activist - a political tribute to
the work
of Judy Davis, by David Orton, February 2010. A
tribute
to Judy appeared in the Spring 2010 issue of the N. S. Government
Employees
Union Newsletter, The Stand,
in the section NSGEU Women Do Great Things.
Judy died
on June 14th, 2010. Portrait of an Activist was also
published in Spiritroots
Communications, Issue 11, 2010
Earth
Spirituality and Nature - a commentary by David Orton on
Bron
Taylor's Dark Green Religion: Nature
Spirituality and the Planetary Future, March
2010.
Mixed
Thoughts on Ecosocialism - a contribution to a recent
discussion on
ecosocialism, on the internet group leftbio,
by David Orton, March 2010.
Wind
Turbines: Some Deeper Questions - a book commentary on Wind
Turbine Syndrome by Nina Pierpont,
written by David Orton and Helga Hoffmann-Orton in
the
context of our local situation, May 2010. Includes as an
Addendum a review of the 2009 book The Wind Farm
Scam: An
Ecologist’s Evaluation, by John Etherington.
The Pierpont review was published in Lower
Island News (B.C.),
Vol. 27, Issue 2, June/July 2010.
Dark
Mountain Insight - a comment by David Orton on the book
Dark
Mountain, edited by Paul Kingsnorth
and Dougald Hine, July 2010.
Some
Dimensions of a New Forest Land Ethic - a contribution by
David
Orton to the discussion of what to
do with some soon to be acquired forest lands near
Scotsburn, Pictou County, Nova Scotia. August 2010.
Community
Lands and Deep Ecology - Response to the “Nova Scotia
Community
Lands Trust Discussion Paper”
presented by the Nova Scotia Department of Natural
Resources, by David Orton, September 2010.
Wildlife
Hysteria: Nova Scotia’s War on Coyotes - A letter to the
editor by
Billy MacDonald of the Redtail Nature
Awareness and David Orton of the Green Web, January
2011.
Published as an Opinion article in the Chronicle Herald
on February 03, 2011, and in several other
newspapers in
Nova Scotia, including Farm Focus.
Starting in October of 2010, David Orton wrote a
blog, the Deep Green Web,
to which he posted
the following articles:
David Keith Orton - a "Lives Lived" column in The Globe and Mail, November 2, 2011.
The New York Times published a section
“The Lives they Loved” on December 201, 2011. I submitted an obituary,
which,
as far as I
can see, was not published. To read it, go to Lives
Loved.
A Green
Interview was conducted by Silver Donald Cameron with David not
long before he died.
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