Abstract
THE BROAD, GLASS WINDOWS of a hotel's meeting room held back the darkness of a Thursday night before the Annual Meeting. Gathered around a seminar-style table, members of the AAR's Task Force on Sustainability1 greeted one another and began moving through the evening's agenda. The furrowed brow of one member communicated our mutual bewilderment over item number two. “You're telling us,” he said, “that every schedule poster placed on those little easels outside all the session rooms is made of corn starch instead of foam board?” “That's right,” Robert Puckett answered, “all of them—completely compostable.” Every Task Force member had published on religions and ecology and many were notable scholarly leaders in the field.2 Each of us had experience in service-activism on our campuses, within the AAR, or through local and international organizations. Despite this, we reeled every time Aislinn Jones, Robert Puckett, and Kyle Cole3 explained one more step the AAR could take for planetary health. We felt the shock of global consequences of climate change as John O'Keefe or Bella Mukonyora shared about their research and field-work in Africa. Could our scholarly lives simply continue as they had before? Could the AAR? What counted as scholarly work? Did research and action for a more sustainable world only fit the academic bin called service? Who would offer new models and adaptations?
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