Lisi Krall

Lisi Krall is a Professor of Economics at the State University of New York at Cortland.  She has published extensively in the areas of political economy, human ecology, and the evolution of economic systems.  She is currently completing a book manuscript: The Great Divide: A Meditation on the Order of Economic Life and the War Between Economy and Earth.  Her previous book, Proving Up: Domesticating Land in US History, explores the interconnections of economy, culture, and land.  A Fulbright Scholar, SUNY Senior Scholar, and Chancellor’s Award recipient, she has collaborated with the Evolution Institute, the Foundation for Deep Ecology, the Post Carbon Institute, the Population Institute, and the International Forum on Globalization.  She is presently collaborating with The Land Institute in its Ecosphere Studies and New Perennials Project initiatives and is a board member of ISEE.    

Recent Posts

December 30, 2021 in Biology, Economy, Environment

The Early Roots of a Modern Crisis

This is our challenge: to move a world of almost 8 billion people, most involved in an economic system with tremendous inequality, a clear imperative to expand, and a chronic…
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December 30, 2021 in Biology, Economy, Environment

The Economic Legacy of the Holocene

The untenable trajectory of the human economic order on Earth risks unprecedented ecological decay and mass extinctions. Many people deny there is a crisis and pursue business-as-usual, and even those…
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June 30, 2021 in Economy, Environment

A War Between the Economy and the Earth

This article first appeared in TVOL Magazine. The original article can be found here. -- Dear Joe— The fact that you find yourself planting the seed of this discussion should…
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