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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Culture Change…

Think.Eat.Save

8 Feb 2013
Think.Eat.Save is a new international campaign to address a plethora of problems by reducing food waste. The down side: food waste is a massive global problem that has negative humanitarian, environmental…

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