To browse Academia. University of Louisiana at Monroe. Skip to main content. Log In Sign Up. Followers Following Public Views. With Roderick Coover, Newman co-produced the documentary film, Canyonlands: Edward Abbey and the Great American Desert , which has been screened at conferences, symposiums, and festivals in the U. Related Authors. Mani Rao Independent Researcher. Bill Scalia. Carina Baltz Bielefeld University. Ashton Nichols Dickinson College.
Devin Zuber Graduate Theological Union. Robert M Ruehl St. John Fisher College. Vera Coleman Carleton College. Sean Ross Meehan Washington College. Interests View All Books by Lance Newman. Newman CV. Download Edit. American Literature. The Grand Canyon Reader. Transatlantic Romanticism. Papers by Lance Newman. Cosmopolitics and the Radical Pastoral. Desert Interventions. A Dialogue about the Desert. Their conversation goes on to consider how works Edward Abbey, Robert Smithson, William Vollmann, and the Center for Land Use Interpretation, among others, offers models for engaging ecological questions through writing and art.
Environmental Thought and Action. Last year's announcement of Al Gore's Nobel Prize kicked off a flurry of media coverage of climat As many observers noted at the time, Gore's win coincided neatly with the run-up to the December Bali talks, where scientists and diplomats from around the world attempted to frame a new global agreement limiting CO2 emissions.
While it was billed as a showcase of international civil society's determination to solve the environmental crisis, what Bali really spotlighted was the illogic of Natural Capitalism.
This reformist theory's proponents argue that capitalism can be radically transformed into a clean, sustainable, equitable world system through a combination of creative entrepreneurship and coordinated guidance of national and international markets. In his opening remarks, Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon argued that we are entering a new historical era:.
