climate… Star Trek or Little House on the Prairie, the Red/Blue Divide, and Imagining Complexly 10 Nov 201611 Nov 2016 The US election results of 8 Nov 2016 were a bit shocking to me. David Wong at Cracked.com provided a strikingly insightful explanation of why I and my ivory tower, liberal…
education What would a sustainable Third Level Campus look like? 29 Mar 201629 Mar 2016 Another rehearsal video - this time for a short job talk on ways to address sustainability and sustainable development in third level (a.k.a. post-secondary, higher or further) education. I advocate…
Culture Change… Post-capitalism? Property and money 3 Sep 20141 Sep 2014 Charles Eisenstein has a thoughtful little post about the terms and meanings of capital, property and ownership - how we construct these in the current money culture, and how that…
Culture Change… Interdependence~Independence Day 2014 4 Jul 2014 Re-imagining Independence Day It's that time of year again, and I'm an ocean away from my home country. Of course, I can't let a Fourth of July pass without remembering my…
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…
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…
pollution Capitola Bags the Bag 28 Mar 201328 Mar 2013 It's time to Bag the (Plastic) Bag! Way to go, City of Capitola.
Culture Change… Getting sensible about transportation options 7 Oct 20127 Oct 2012 In Santa Cruz county, we're starting to have some conversations about transit and land use. A few interesting thoughts along those lines: City-builders across the globe understand the relative cheapness of…
Culture Change… The Shared Dream at the Top of the Stairs 13 Jul 201211 Jun 2018 Apparently (I have not yet read it), E.O. Wilson has a new book, The Social Conquest of Earth, promoting his ideas about multilevel selection. What's that? That's the idea that Natural Selection…
Culture Change… Independence/Interdependence Day 2012 4 Jul 2012 A news clip today from the world of high-energy physics reminded me that today isn't just about people with small explosives: Today is an important day for science, and for…
Ponderings of a Perplexed Primate 