Culture Change – Page 6 – Ponderings of a Perplexed Primate

Singapore’s outsized footprint

Singapore is putting some efforts into improving sustainability, but that doesn't mean we're outpacing the problem. From Channel News Asia: Singapore was found to have the seventh-largest ecological footprint [per…

Evidence of illegal logging activity detected by conservation drones in Gunung Leuser National Park

3 Oct 20143 Oct 2014

More logging in Leuser - ouch! At least the Gunung Leuser National Park officials seem to have given an appropriate response. Here's hoping those conservation drones can catch more illegal…

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Good riddance to disposable plastic bags in CA

24 Sep 20141 Oct 2014

The Cabrillo Sustainability Council worked to eliminate plastic bags in 2011. Now a California statewide ban looks likely, having passed in the state legislature, though we're still waiting for Gov.…

People’s Climate March

Seeing the pictures out of NYC gives me some real hope that we can create the kind of change we need soon enough to make a difference. Time Magazine is…

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…

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Post-capitalism? Property and money

3 Sep 20141 Sep 2014

Charles Eisenstein has a thoughtful little post about the terms and meanings of capital, property and ownership - how we construct these in the current money culture, and how that…

California’s Climate Crisis and Carnivory

31 Aug 201431 Aug 2014

So by now you must have seen the headlines. California is in the grips of a devastating drought: And this has some noticeable consequences: What's to be done about it? Well,…

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…

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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…

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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…