LIVING WATER SMART IN BRITISH COLUMBIA: “How might our understanding of nature change if we recognize non-human stories conveyed in codes, signs, colors, body language, gestures, and signals, as stunning narratives,” wonders Dr. Serpil Oppermann, co-editor of The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Blue Humanities (scheduled for publication in 2025)
Note to Reader:
Published by the Partnership for Water Sustainability in British Columbia, Waterbucket eNews celebrates the leadership of individuals and organizations who are guided by the Living Water Smart vision. The edition published on September 24th 2024 features Michael Blackstock and his vision for fusion of Artificial Intelligence and Natural Intelligence through Blue Ecology.
When published in 2025, His chapter in the Bloomsbury Handbook to the Blue Humanities will crescendo with Natural Intelligence. Ants, beavers and trees are examples that he uses to illustrate untapped intelligence in nature.
Look beyond AI, Artificial Intelligence, to solve your problems
“The Partnership for Water Sustainability is helping Michael make the framework for Blue Ecology actionable in the local government sector. Our journey of collaboration with Michael Blackstock began in 2016,” stated Kim Stephens, Waterbucket eNews Editor and Partnership Executive Director.
The clip is a ~7 minute PREVIEW of the Watershed Moments 2023 documentary .
The full-length 90-minute documentary is at https://youtu.be/PMhom-UIxLI
COMING IN 2025: The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Blue Humanities includes Blue Ecology
“We are supporting Michael Blackstock so that he can move down three parallel yet interconnected tracks.”
“The Bloomsbury Handbook for Blue Humanities is a great illustration of the headway that Michael Blackstock is making in establishing credibility with academia. A gee-whiz fact is that Bloomsbury Publishing is the custodian of the Harry Potter series.”
Natural Intelligence: the paradigm-shift starts with a conversation!
In 2025, Bloomsbury is publishing the Bloomsbury Handbook to the Blue Humanities and Michael is contributing a 6000-word chapter on Blue Ecology. Turkish academic Dr. Serpil Oppermann is the catalyst behind the handbook and one of four co-editors.
“I am very happy to have Michael Blackstock in the Bloomsbury Handbook to the Blue Humanities,” says Serpil Oppermann. “I was overjoyed when he accepted our invitation. It was a most benevolent outcome for a positive response from such an important figure.”
Connection to nature
“My chapter in the handbook will crescendo with the Natural Intelligence idea,” Michael Blackstock told me in a recent conversation. “Serpil Oppermann is the inspiration for the idea. It was that Zoom session when you interviewed her for Waterbucket eNews about her vision for the handbook that did it.”
“During our conversation with Serpil, she emphasized that we have lost our connection to nature. I had read her published work. But it was listening to her that did it.”
What Serpil Oppermann does
Her work explores the intersecting perspectives of natural sciences and environmental humanities. Her mission is to be a bridge between humanities and science studies.
Serpil Oppermann is Director of the Environmental Humanities Center at Cappadocia University (Turkey) and a past President of the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture, and the Environment.
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