Introducing Expanded Environmentalism

This summer, Shannon and I have been hard at work on a new platform/initiative, Expanded Environmentalism. To borrow from our welcome blurb on the Expanded Environmentalism homepage:

Our aim is to offer a platform that contemplates and responds to our embeddedness within the more-than-human world. The more-than-human world is not just the non-human world or the environment "out there" but rather the continuum of life that includes humans, non-human life, and perhaps even phenomena not typically considered alive in the conventional sense.

Like all life forms, Expanded Environmentalism is constantly evolving. At this point, the platform offers speculative essays on the more-than-human dimension, interactive (applied learning) exercises, media recommendations, and project updates from its founders, André and Shannon Silva. As we grow, we intend to expand the conversation to include interviews and highlighted content from a growing and diverse body of artists and thinkers who complement the Expanded Environmentalism mission.

You can check out the website at: https://www.expandedenvironmentalism.com/

I migrated a couple blog posts from The Liminal Soup; “Why I Make Environmentally-Centered Films but Am Not Interested in Saving the Earth” and “Speaking as Trees” over to the Expanded Environmentalism blog. To get a comprehensive overview of what Expanded Environmentalism is about, check out the post, Defining Expanded Environmentalism.

I will continue to occasionally post on the Liminal Soup blog, but because I’m now writing for two blogs, posts here will be more infrequent.