education… Adventures at AASHE 19 Oct 20173 Nov 2017 Thanks to support from many friends and relatives (and a scholarship from some conference sponsors that covered my registration) I just got back from the American Association for Sustainability in Higher…
climate… 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…
education… The EfS Asia Book is published! 21 Aug 20173 Nov 2017 Education and Sustainability: Paradigms, Policies and Practices in Asia, the first book completed as a collaborative project within our community of practice, is now available. It was officially published on 15…
education The Education and Sustainability book is in press 26 Feb 2017 In case you've been wondering why you haven't heard much from me lately, for the last few months I've been busy preparing the manuscript that just went to the publisher.…
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…
education… Saving What Matters: Taking Sustainability Personally 20 Sep 201520 Sep 2015 I was asked to deliver a talk to the School of Arts, Design and Media at Nanyang Technological University last week. As I was preparing, I recorded a rehearsal version…
disasters… Leuser Under Threat Again 14 Sep 2015 And yet another sad but important recent article related to my upcoming talk, this time on the Leuser Ecosystem (where I studied orangutans at Suaq Balimbing and Ketambe research sites in…
education European Excursion and EfS 25 Nov 201425 Nov 2014 Just a quick update on my last month of work and play... I traveled to Europe to give a talk for the Mensch-Gesellschaft-Umwelt (Man-Society-Environment) program at University of Basel, then present at the…
climate… Palm Oil Updates from UCS 25 Aug 2014 Union of Concerned Scientists is starting a new campaign to get McDonald's to "make a firm commitment to use only deforestation-free palm oil." "Tell McDonald's to go deforestation-free!" Act Now »…
climate… News from Indonesia’s Forests 14 Aug 201414 Aug 2014 Visiting Mongabay.com/Mongabay.org is always an emotional roller-coaster. The reporting is great, and what they have to say is... often not so great. The latest news out of Indonesia (especially Sumatra) is…
Ponderings of a Perplexed Primate 