Culture Change… Quality quantification? Comparing Asian Countries 28 May 20146 Jun 2014 In her recent, brilliant (as usual) video, "The Story of Solutions," Annie Leonard admonishes that we should stop relentlessly working toward MORE and start emphasizing BETTER. Trouble is, how do…
Culture Change… Nourishing Sustainable Networks in Singapore 14 May 201416 May 2014 In a few weeks, I'll be participating in Sustainable Networks: The Enlightenment to the Contemporary Conference. I'm giving a talk about the network of sustainability educators I'm already a part of…
education… Recent Biomimicry Media Coverage 30 Apr 201430 Apr 2014 An exciting summary of Biomimicry in the news, from germinature.com
Culture Change… Education for Sustainability: What Every College Student Should Know 21 Apr 2014 If you happen to be in Singapore and you can make it by on the 30th... The Environment and Sustainability Research Cluster of HSS cordially invite you to a seminar…
climate… Gloom-and-Doom… with Happy Widgets 15 Apr 201415 Apr 2014 So we broke yet another record for CO2 at Mauna Loa, with another daily average over 400ppm. There's the "...ugh, we're in so much trouble" graphic that goes with it:…
education… How Many Products with Palm Oil Do You Use in a Day? 4 Apr 2014 I think... I hope... I'm doing a bit better than Lael Goodman, the author of this post: "How Many Products with Palm Oil Do I Use in a Day?" But…
education What I’m up to now… 20 Feb 201420 Feb 2014 In case you've been wondering, I'm now a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. My beloved has been tracking our weekend trips on Tumblr. My first big project…
Living Systems… Good News (at last): A Palm Oil Victory 9 Dec 20139 Dec 2013 Re-posting from forestheroes.org Why all the fuss about palm oil to begin with? Well if you’re new to the campaign and this blog, the palm oil industry is currently one…
disasters… Just days left to save Aceh’s forests – Sumatran Orangutan Society 9 Dec 2013 Last week, I gave yet another talk on orangutan conservation, with student presentations about the problems with palm oil, deforestation, mining and the bushmeat trade and how these threaten nonhuman…
Culture Change… The Population Problem 5 Nov 2013 Long-time population maven Paul Ehrlich just published a post called Overpopulation and the Collapse of Civilization on the blog for the Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere (MAHB). "Food…
Ponderings of a Perplexed Primate 