climate… Vernal Thoughts 24 Mar 2015 Four quick thoughts on events that come around this time of year... 1. Solar zenith in Singapore and what the Equinox is all about At 1:11 PM Singapore time, the…
education… Celebrate Life’s B(earth) Day 25 Feb! 24 Feb 2015 A little dash of perspective, from WHY CELEBRATING LIFE’S B(EARTH)DAY IS IMPORTANT TO BIOMIMICRY BY DAYNA BAUMEISTER We need perspective. And no where is this perspective more obvious than in…
Culture Change… A New Type of Thinking 12 Jan 201512 Jan 2015 The world we have made, as a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far, creates problems we cannot solve at the same level of thinking at…
Culture Change… Sustainable Living, NTU Style 12 Dec 2014 So, I'm finally moving into my first green building! We've moved into one of the apartments at the top of Crescent Hall. Erik has posted some pictures at colorjedi.tumblr.com, such as:…
education European Excursion and EfS 25 Nov 201425 Nov 2014 Just a quick update on my last month of work and play... I traveled to Europe to give a talk for the Mensch-Gesellschaft-Umwelt (Man-Society-Environment) program at University of Basel, then present at the…
education… Conservation Drones? 4 Sep 20148 Sep 2014 When I was slogging through the swamps and slipping down the mud-slicked trails of Sumatra, following orangutans, I often daydreamed about how the right tech would make the job so…
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…
Ponderings of a Perplexed Primate 