The Web of Life Foundation is issuing the first call for essays for its 2013 essay competition.
WOLFoundation is dedicating to stimulating new thinking in the field of sustainability and socio-environmental issues. Within this context, the theme of this year’s essay competition is “An Aspirational Future“.
Essays should be up to 2,000 words of prose in any non-technical style (including fiction) and are meant for a general readership. From the Guidelines: “Any and all views on the specified theme are welcome and encouraged. We would like to see entries that address all perspectives creatively. Just avoid giving us tired ideas that have been hashed out many times before.”
The winning essay will receive a cash prize of $1,500 and $500 is awarded to the second placed entry.
Submissions should be addressed to submissions [at] wolfoundation [dot] org. Closing date for submissions is September 30th, 2013.
Guidelines for submissions can be found at http://www.wolfoundation.org/guidelines/
A book of collected essays from the 2011 competition was published in collaboration with Cultura21, as eBook (in November 2012) and as paperback (in March 2013).
An Orange County Almanac, and other essays, which was published in November 2012 as the 7th Volume in the Cultura21 eBooks series on Culture and Sustainability, in collaboration with WOLFoundation, is now also made available as paperback by the WOLFoundation. It is available for purchase ($7 + p&p. No sales tax.).
edited by J. Zammit-Lucia
On the 17th November from 10:45AM to 12:30 PM (PST) at the SOMArts centre in San Francisco the public is invited to participate in a roundtable discussion with Karen Barad, currently Professor of Feminist Studies, Philosophy, and History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a diverse panel of researchers ranging from ethnographers to artist.
Cultura21′s Sacha Kagan is presenting the research of his most recent book “Art and Sustainability: Connecting Patterns for a Culture of Complexity” in Mumbai on the 12th of October at the Goethe Hall, Max Mueller Bhavan at 6:30pm.
Tom Chivers – Cape Farewell’s Climate Poet-in-Residence
The eBook „Negatives Menschenbild und Separationsdenken in der modernen Gesellschaft“ by Davide Brocchi is now available for download as PDF file.

30th of September – 2nd of October, 2011
The Values of Environmental Writing Research Network raises levels of critical academic exchange and public debate about the possible relations between reading habits and preferences, levels of environmental literacy, and wider patterns of pro-environment behavioural and lifestyle change.

