climate… 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…
Culture Change… 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…
climate… 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…
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…
climate… 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,…
climate… 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. …
climate… 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…
climate… 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…
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…
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…
Ponderings of a Perplexed Primate 