Culture Change… How do living systems ‘prepare, leverage and bounce back’ from times of crisis? 24 Dec 2016 Rachel Hahs posted some amazing biomimetic analogies and questions for understanding how we respond to our current time of crisis and transformation through a contemplation of how nature expresses resilience…
Culture Change This Year’s Thanksgiving Thoughts 23 Nov 2016 It is the eve of Thanksgiving in the United States, and in keeping with my annual tradition, I'd like to remind you that Friday is Black Friday Buy Nothing Day (and also to let…
climate… Star Trek or Little House on the Prairie, the Red/Blue Divide, and Imagining Complexly 10 Nov 201611 Nov 2016 The US election results of 8 Nov 2016 were a bit shocking to me. David Wong at Cracked.com provided a strikingly insightful explanation of why I and my ivory tower, liberal…
climate… THE WORLD IN 2050: CREATING/IMAGINING JUST CLIMATE FUTURES: A NEARLY CARBON-NEUTRAL CONFERENCE 31 Oct 2016 THE WORLD IN 2050: CREATING/IMAGINING JUST CLIMATE FUTURES: A NEARLY CARBON-NEUTRAL CONFERENCE 24 October - 13 November 2016 from Resilience.org : Introducing … The Nearly Carbon-Free Academic Conference: The World in 2050 by John Foran…
climate… The Scale of Change Over Time 12 Sep 2016 (or "The difference between rust and fire") Randall Munroe has given us a great way to look at climate change over a somewhat-deep-time perspective. (Remember, I'm an anthropologist, so 20,000…
Culture Change… Cultivating Ecosystem Gardens of Health and Hope 20 Jun 2016 This is a talk I gave last week at the conference "Spontaneous Beauties?" World Gardens and Gardens in the World at NTU (YouTube video of practice talk, and SlideShare of…
money culture The Myth of Bartering and the Realities of Sharing and Gift Economies 14 Jun 201615 Jun 2016 In their ethnographic research, anthropologists do not find barter economies among people who have never used money. Much more prevalent are gift economies: a complex and time-extended form of reciprocal altruism. Often there…
Living Systems Why study ecology? Spontaneous poetry. 27 May 2016 The brilliant, 100% Made of Awesome (no artificial colors or preservatives) Hank Green, somehow capturing exactly why the science of ecology is great, and hikes in the woods are even…
Culture Change… Mind-mapping a career path 19 May 201619 May 2016 I'm deep in job search mode, meaning I'm spending a lot of time just looking for something that might fit, and sending out applications. But there are deeper questions I…
climate… Energy Return on Investment 1 May 20161 May 2016 What every schoolkid (and investor) should know, and why it is time for fossil fuel divestment. Energy Return on Investment (EROI) is easy to understand: how much energy do you…
Ponderings of a Perplexed Primate 