climate… News from Indonesia’s Forests 14 Aug 201414 Aug 2014 Visiting Mongabay.com/Mongabay.org is always an emotional roller-coaster. The reporting is great, and what they have to say is... often not so great. The latest news out of Indonesia (especially Sumatra) is…
education NTU races toward sustainability 13 Aug 201413 Aug 2014 Why would I come all the way to Singapore to do research on education for sustainability? Here's why: NTU’s new icons of sustainability In 2013, the two new [residential] halls…
Culture Change… Nurturing Asian Networks for Post-Secondary Sustainability Education 31 Jul 201431 Jul 2014 This is a virtual presentation I am giving for the Asian Conference on Education for Sustainability 2014. The paper is by Michelle Y. Merrill, Youngho Chang, Md Saidul Islam and…
Culture Change… Reviewing The Systems View of Life 24 Jul 201424 Jul 2014 Zygote Quarterly has just published the review of The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision (Fritjof Capra and Pier Luigi Luisi, 2014) that I worked on as a co-author. Like…
education… Biomimicry Design Challenge 2014 Winners 11 Jul 2014 The winners of the 2014 Biomimicry Design Challenge have been announced. The theme this year was to design something related to transportation. I worked with a couple of students here…
Culture Change… Interdependence~Independence Day 2014 4 Jul 2014 Re-imagining Independence Day It's that time of year again, and I'm an ocean away from my home country. Of course, I can't let a Fourth of July pass without remembering my…
disasters… Depleted forests force Borneo Orangutans to nest in oil palm estates 30 Jun 2014 Our furry orange friends are just trying to find a place to sleep for the night... they've had to go from secure and cozy places where they could make a nice bed…
Culture Change… My take on sustainability, in video form 27 Jun 2014 This morning I took a workshop on producing and editing screencast videos for the "flipped classroom." I chose to pursue my usual prey with my PowerPoint. The results (including goofy…
climate… In these times of change… 26 Jun 2014 A fascinating new piece, Want to Change the World? Read This First by Richard Heinberg was published on Resilience.org. He moves through important ideas from anthropologist Marvin Harris's cultural materialism…
Culture Change… More Quantification: Religion, History, Education, Literacy 6 Jun 20146 Jun 2014 Venturing into even more contentious territory than last week, I've compiled some more statistics for my study area. Asia Religion, History, Higher Education, and Literacy Some interesting findings in the religious diversity…
Ponderings of a Perplexed Primate 