Sustainability and Ecovillage Living
Sustainability is a term often used -- but what does it mean? Join Ithaca EcoVillage residents and former professors Dick Franke and Barbara Chasin as they discuss the concept of sustainability: its history, scientific application and significance, and its social justice and quality of life implications for current and future generations.
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Barbara H. Chasin, Ph. D., is Professor Emerita of Sociology at Montclair State University (Montclair, New Jersey) and a resident with Richard Franke of Ecovillage at Ithaca since 2009. A long-time political activist, she participates in the local Ithaca area social justice movement. She is the author and co-author of several books and articles including Inequality and Violence in the United States: Casualties of Capitalism (2004). She and Richard Franke have co-authored several books and articles on environmental and development issues including Seeds of Famine: Ecological Destruction and the Development Dilemma in the West African Sahel (1980). They team-taught a course Globalization and Sustainability for 6 semesters at Montclair State.
Richard W. Franke, Ph. D., is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Montclair State University. He is a board member of the Ecovillage at Ithaca FROG neighborhood cohousing cooperative and also works in the local Ithaca area social justice movement. He is author or co-author of numerous books and articles including with his Kerala colleague, Srikumar Chattopadhyay, Striving for Sustainability: Environmental Stress and Democratic Initiatives in Kerala (2006). Among his articles is a series of 37 short essays on sustainability issues for Tompkins Weekly. These are available at https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~franker/FrankeTompkinsWeekly.htm
He and Barbara Chasin have given presentations on EcoVillage at a number of venues. They recently coauthored the article "EcoVillage at Ithaca: Benefits and Challenges of Cohousing" for Green Horizon Magazine.