Living Systems – Page 2 – Ponderings of a Perplexed Primate

Experiencing Shocks: Hurricane Edition

1 Sep 20173 Nov 2017

To report the storm as if it were an entirely natural phenomenon, like last week’s eclipse of the sun, is to take a [political] position. As George Monbiot mentions, mainstream…

The best way to reduce your carbon footprint is one the government isn’t telling you about | Science Magazine

14 Jul 20173 Nov 2017

From Science article: ...four lifestyle choices had a major impact: Become a vegetarian, forego air travel, ditch your car, and—most significantly—have fewer children. The top ways to reduce your carbon footprint So,…

Palm Oil reporting and interactive map

The Zoological Society of London (ZSL) developed SPOTT to report on some of the main drivers of tropical deforestation and habitat loss. They've released transparency scores and assessments of the major palm…

The Guardian: Rural distrust of urban elites & city bike innovations

Another look at how Americans became polarized between small-town and big-city voters and the creation of the red/blue divide in the USA, this time from The Guardian. It’s no secret Donald Trump benefited…

Project Drawdown, Part 1

25 May 201726 May 2017

Tonight I will have the great good fortune to see Paul Hawken speak about Project Drawdown (and especially the newly-released book Drawdown) at one of my favorite places in the world: Bookshop Santa Cruz. …

Earth Day & March for Science

I'm heading to the lovely Santa Cruz March for Science and Earth Day celebration, and wanted to share a song to celebrate that: (You can also see the lyrics to…

Culture Change…

How do living systems ‘prepare, leverage and bounce back’ from times of crisis?

Rachel Hahs posted some amazing biomimetic analogies and questions for understanding how we respond to our current time of crisis and transformation through a contemplation of how nature expresses resilience…

Star Trek or Little House on the Prairie, the Red/Blue Divide, and Imagining Complexly

10 Nov 201611 Nov 2016

The US election results of 8 Nov 2016 were a bit shocking to me. David Wong at Cracked.com provided a strikingly insightful explanation of why I and my ivory tower, liberal…

THE WORLD IN 2050: CREATING/IMAGINING JUST CLIMATE FUTURES: A NEARLY CARBON-NEUTRAL CONFERENCE

THE WORLD IN 2050: CREATING/IMAGINING JUST CLIMATE FUTURES: A NEARLY CARBON-NEUTRAL CONFERENCE 24 October - 13 November 2016 from Resilience.org : Introducing … The Nearly Carbon-Free Academic Conference: The World in 2050 by John Foran…

The Scale of Change Over Time

(or "The difference between rust and fire") Randall Munroe has given us a great way to look at climate change over a somewhat-deep-time perspective. (Remember, I'm an anthropologist, so 20,000…