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Maybe Local Farming Could Save the Planet

16 Jul 2020
...or at least, the humans A climate-concerned friend recently forwarded me a link to an article headlined "Local Farming Can’t Save the Planet," concerned that it had some evidence that…
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A New Wrinkle in Our Time: Transforming the Oil Economy

11 May 2020
I've written before about how precarious the fossil fuel industry has actually been for many years now. A friend sent this brilliant summary of the recent oil price crash, and…
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Present and Persistent Palm Oil Problems

27 Jun 2018
The IUCN Oil Palm Task Force has just published a review of the current conundrums of industrial oil palm crops in the tropics. Land-clearing for plantations geard toward international palm oil production remain…
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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…
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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,…
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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.  …
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THE WORLD IN 2050: CREATING/IMAGINING JUST CLIMATE FUTURES: A NEARLY CARBON-NEUTRAL CONFERENCE

31 Oct 2016
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…
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The Scale of Change Over Time

12 Sep 2016
(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…
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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…
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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…

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