As scholars of political science, working on issues that we classify as ecological political economy (EPE), we discuss and analyse what it means for a political scientist to think and work across disciplinary boundaries within the current globally dominant Western-style university system where the ruling constitutive research, learning and incentive structures (and significant aspects of the culture of social sciences more generally) aspects of the culture of social sciences more generally) largely work against, rather than in support of, interdisciplinary (and multi-authored) research. This chapter considers here how scholarly work within university systems might be reorganized to be more useful for addressing ecological economic issues. In doing so, we touch upon issues that are intimately related to questions that are taboo within 'the academy' regarding the relationship between power and knowledge (in a Foucauldian sense) and the sanctity of facts. Here we are speaking not only as scholars but also as workers – as individuals employed within the academy. In this respect, in addition to being an assessment of an empirical political science problematique – let us call it the ecological political economy of environmental science – our comments will, from time to time, also take on a more normative, moral and even at times ethical tone.