Skip to content

Ponderings of a Perplexed Primate

things tickling this ape's brain

Search
  • About me
  • Workshops
  • Blog
  • Contact me

Category: Living Systems

Nature, ecosystems, wildlife, “coupled human and natural systems” (CHaNS), and the threats they face

Culture Change…

Cultivating Ecosystem Gardens of Health and Hope

20 Jun 2016
This is a talk I gave last week at the conference "Spontaneous Beauties?" World Gardens and Gardens in the World at NTU (YouTube video of practice talk, and SlideShare of…
Living Systems

Why study ecology? Spontaneous poetry.

27 May 2016
The brilliant, 100% Made of Awesome (no artificial colors or preservatives) Hank Green, somehow capturing exactly why the science of ecology is great, and hikes in the woods are even…
climate…

Energy Return on Investment

1 May 20161 May 2016
What every schoolkid (and investor) should know, and why it is time for fossil fuel divestment. Energy Return on Investment (EROI) is easy to understand: how much energy do you…
primates

RIP Elwyn Simons

17 Mar 2016
Elwyn L. Simons was one of the leading figures of paleoprimatology, and founder of the Duke University Primate Center. His fossil discoveries included Aegyptopithecus.  He worked on primate conservation, focusing on…
Living Systems…

World Wildlife Day: It’s about their lives

3 Mar 20163 Mar 2016
In this beautiful essay, naturalist Paul Rosolie reminds us that it's not just about ecosystem accounting.  It's about individual, intelligent animals.  It's about tapping into our compassion and empathy.  It's…
climate…

We’ve got goals: the 17 SDGs

15 Feb 201628 Feb 2016
The UNDP's Sustainable Development Goals took effect the first day of 2016.  I'll be leading a discussion of these goals at the upcoming NTU Sustainability Salon.  As I see it, the most…
climate…

Goodbye and good riddance to coal

29 Jan 201629 Jan 2016
Two fascinating and promising new articles regarding this fossil of a fuel (both from German Energiewende perspectives): Is renewable electricity now driving coal prices? Craig Morris at Energy Transition makes the argument that, particularly in…
Living Systems…

December Solstice Haiku 2015

22 Dec 2015
Solstice dance has passed, The sun kissed the South goodbye, Now flying Northward.  
Culture Change…

Happy Holidays?

25 Nov 201525 Nov 2015
CGP Grey gives a brief recap of Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel, just in time for Thanksgiving. Speaking of Thanksgiving, do take some time to get in touch with gratitude…
climate…

The Smoke of Centuries: Indonesia’s Fires

9 Nov 2015
The fires in Indonesia  burn rainforest trees that have grown and fed and housed orangutans for decades or centuries, and peat that has stored carbon for centuries or millennia.  George Monbiot…

Posts navigation

Older posts
Newer posts

Michelle Y. Merrill on…

  • View @PerplexdPrimate’s profile on Twitter
  • View michelle-merrill-ph-d-a5535b’s profile on LinkedIn
  • View UC45jk1ojNcBpeH0bB_fHZaQ’s profile on YouTube
Follow Ponderings of a Perplexed Primate on WordPress.com

Ponderings Primer

New to Ponderings...? Here's some of the stuff I recommend:
The Shared Dream at the Top of the Stairs
Painful Topics: Primate Conservation
Indigenous Energy Idle No More
Shopping our way out of it?
Strategies for Changing the Story
Hygiene and Its Discontents
The “S” Word

View Michelle Merrill, Ph.D.'s profile on LinkedIn

Follow me on Twitter

My Tweets

Tags

adaptation adaptive cycle Anthropocene anthropology apes Asia bikes biomimicry bonobos Cabrillo California carbon cars climate change collapse college communication community complexity conservation consumerism culture deep time Earth Earth Day ecology economics education Education for Sustainability EfS energy evolution friends future heroes immigration independence indigenous rights Indonesia interdependence knowledge Living Systems local money Occupy! ocean orangutans palm oil peak oil permaculture plastics politics pop culture population primates rainforest recycling resilience science Singapore Southeast Asia space stuff Sumatra sustainability systems TATA tax technology Thanksgiving transportation trees trust waste wildlife

Previous Ponderings

  • Maybe Local Farming Could Save the Planet
  • A New Wrinkle in Our Time: Transforming the Oil Economy
  • Thanksgiving Thoughts 2019
  • Famous Footprints: 50 years ago, 3.6 million years ago (give or take)
  • Gals and the Global Goals

Categories

  • climate (41)
  • Culture Change (91)
  • disasters (50)
  • education (67)
  • health (13)
  • heroes (35)
  • justice (23)
  • Living Systems (62)
  • money culture (37)
  • News and Links (32)
  • pollution (28)
  • primates (33)
  • revolution (49)
  • transportation (10)

Affiliated Blogs

  • Judy Bloomgardener's Mind Space
  • Re-imagining Independence Day
  • Cabrillo College Sustainable Cultures Class
  • The Imagined Worlds of Michelle Yvonne Merrill
  • Cabrillo GreenSteps Blog

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 33 other subscribers

Creative Commons License

Creative Commons License
All text on this site by Michelle Y. Merrill is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, with love.

Follow me on Twitter

My Tweets

Social Sites

  • LinkedIn
  • YouTube
  • X
  • About me
  • Workshops
  • Blog
  • Contact me
Website Powered by WordPress.com.
  • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Ponderings of a Perplexed Primate
    • Join 32 other subscribers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Ponderings of a Perplexed Primate
    • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...