Culture Change – Page 7 – Ponderings of a Perplexed Primate

Biomimicry Design Challenge 2014 Winners

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…

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Interdependence~Independence Day 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…

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My take on sustainability, in video form

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…

In these times of change…

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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

Recent Biomimicry Media Coverage

30 Apr 201430 Apr 2014

An exciting summary of Biomimicry in the news, from germinature.com

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Education for Sustainability: What Every College Student Should Know

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…

How Many Products with Palm Oil Do You Use in a Day?

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…