Living Systems – Page 10 – Ponderings of a Perplexed Primate

The latest orangutan crises…

7 Aug 20128 Aug 2012

There are so many other crises unfolding that I am processing and hope to speak to soon, but meanwhile there are two bits of news on the Pongo conservation front that I…

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The Shared Dream at the Top of the Stairs

13 Jul 201211 Jun 2018

Apparently (I have not yet read it), E.O. Wilson has a new book, The Social Conquest of Earth, promoting his ideas about multilevel selection. What's that? That's the idea that Natural Selection…

Learning through Celebration: Earth Week 2012

13 Apr 201214 Apr 2012

Learning through celebration is the goal, anyway, and that's a big part of what I've been doing instead of blogging. Well... planning to do. We now have the schedule for…

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Peak Oil and Transportation Alternatives

12 Feb 201212 Feb 2012

I'm a bike commuter. I've said it and I'm proud. Earthstonstation has a new post about why single-occupancy cars are such a bad idea for the future, with some important…

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Painful Topics: Primate Conservation

29 Jan 20129 May 2018

I realize that the title of my blog probably makes some think that I'd be talking about non-human primates a bit more. But, despite the fact that I could be…

California’s Higher-Education Disaster – The Chronicle of Higher Education

15 Jan 201227 May 2016

...budget cuts caused enrollment in California community colleges to decline by over 400,000 students. That’s more than the total number of undergraduates enrolled in the entire California State University system.…

Marine Debris from 2011 Japan Tsunami

Shortly after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, I mentioned the concern about what would happen as all that stuff moved out into the Pacific. See video below for a…

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Getting Inspired at Bioneers

18 Oct 20117 Apr 2013

There is so much concentrated hope in one weekend at Bioneers, it can get a person like me and thousands of other "reverent, sane people" (a.k.a. environmentalists - Caroline Casey)…

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Occupied Lands

6 Oct 201118 Oct 2011

I'm mostly hopeful about the promise of the "Occupy" movement. One of the oft-reported weaknesses of the movement is the lack of a unified message. But this criticism overlooks…

Why so many vampires? « The Imagined Worlds of Michelle Yvonne Merrill

5 Oct 201130 Sep 2011

Why so many vampires? « The Imagined Worlds of Michelle Yvonne Merrill. An essay I wrote in 2009, considering the relationship of superheroes and power (especially the challenges faced by…