climate… In these times of change… 26 Jun 2014 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…
Culture Change… 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…
disasters… Just days left to save Aceh’s forests – Sumatran Orangutan Society 9 Dec 2013 Last week, I gave yet another talk on orangutan conservation, with student presentations about the problems with palm oil, deforestation, mining and the bushmeat trade and how these threaten nonhuman…
Culture Change… A Declaration of Interdependence~Independence Day 2013 4 Jul 20134 Jul 2013 Re-imagining Independence Day It's that time of year again. Here in our little coastal paradise, hordes or barbarians descend to get out of the inland heat, char some animal flesh, and blow…
Living Systems… WCS Congratulates Government of Sarawak for Protecting Globally Significant Orangutan Population – Wildlife Conservation Society 8 Jun 2013 A bit of happy news for orangutans: a new population of Pongo pygmaeus found on Borneo this year. Conservationists in Malaysian Borneo found nearly 1000 orangutan nests (sleeping platforms). WCS Congratulates…
disasters… Increase in number of orangutans confiscated from poachers in Aceh 19 Apr 201319 Apr 2013 As habitat destruction expands (most recently logging and draining the Tripa Swamp in Leuser Ecosystem for palm oil plantations), poaching and illegal capture of endangered Sumatran orangutans (Pongo abelii) increases.…
Culture Change… Indigenous Energy Idle No More 7 Apr 201316 Jul 2013 Indigenous voices are being raised. The amazing story of Idle No More, and their resistance to the exploitation of the Alberta Tar Sands and the Keystone XL Pipeline, is a…
Culture Change… Human Population 18 Nov 201218 Nov 2012 A little something I put together for my Bio. Anthro. Lab class...
heroes… Footprints 20 Jul 201223 Jul 2012 Three and a half million years separate the individual who left these footprints in the sands of Africa from the one who left them on the moon. A mere blink in…
Ponderings of a Perplexed Primate 