Richard W. Franke: Writings − 2009 to 2022
e-mail  franker@montclair.edu

Race and Racism

Sustainability

 

What Is Racism? (pdf slideshow)

Pdf 62-slides Slideshow Introducing Ecovillage at Ithaca and our Efforts to Achieve Greater Sustainability and to Lower our Ecological Footprint

What Is Structural Racism?


Structural Racism in
Tompkins County – 2017 – a One Page Overview

Ecosocialism: What Is It and Why Do We Need It?

One Page Overview as Table

Global Warming Basics: pdf slideshow with what you need to know 

Structural Racism in Tompkins County – 2017: The 40-page Version

Tompkins Weekly Newspaper Essays on History and Basic Concepts of Sustainability

 

Historical Views on Ethnocentrism and Race (pdf slideshow)

What Is Sustainability? Definition and History of the Concept

Click for the brochure or for the PDF Slideshow 

The Everyperson's One Page Guide to Racism

 

An Overview of Research on Ecovillage at Ithaca in Realizing Utopia: Ecovillage Endeavors and Academic Approaches. 2012

Scroll down to page 111 for the Ithaca essay

Or, click here to access just the Ithaca essay

Recent U.S. Views on Race (pdf slideshow)

Presentations and Seminars to Ithaca Area Groups



Presentations and Seminars Outside Ithaca

 

Research Ideas for Studying Structural Racism in Tompkins County

Thank you, Rachel Carson (Sustainable Tompkins Blog Essay October 2011)

Review of Ploeg: The New Peasantries June 2010

Martin Luther King Discussion Guide 2010

Clean Coal and Energy Returned on Energy Invested

Discussion Paper on Planetary Boundaries: June 2010

Messages from Martin: 11 January 2013

Discussion Paper on Contrasting Futures: Oct 2010

How Equal/Unequal Can You Get?: 11 January 2013

What's Wrong with Globalization and Right with Community Development

Martin Luther King in 2010 (pdf slideshow)

Ecovillage at Ithaca as Laboratory for Sustainability -- Part 1 Pdf Slideshow. Note: large file, give it a few seconds to download.

Martin Luther King in 2010 (as printable document)

Ecovillage at Ithaca as Laboratory for Sustainability -- Part 2 Pdf Slideshow. Note: large file, give it a few seconds to download.

Join the MLK Community Read in Ithaca

Spontaneous Everyday Coops in Ecovillage at Ithaca April 2011

 

Are We Approaching the Peak?

Sustainable Tompkins Blog, 19 May 2012

 

 

EcoVillage at Ithaca: Benefits and Challenges of Cohousing by Barbara H. Chasin and Richard W. Franke. Green Horizons Magazine Nr. 36. 2018.

 

 

 

Franke, Richard W. and Barbara H. Chasin. 2013. Cooperatives and Capitalism: Selected International Comparisons. Paper presented at the International Conference on Cooperatives in Transition in the Era of Globalization. Organized by the Uralungal Labour Contract Co-operative Society Ltd., Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, and Indian Institute of Management. 18-20 September, 2013. Kozhikode.

 

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