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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…
climate…

The Guardian: Rural distrust of urban elites & city bike innovations

20 Jun 2017
Another look at how Americans became polarized between small-town and big-city voters and the creation of the red/blue divide in the USA, this time from The Guardian. It’s no secret Donald Trump benefited…
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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…
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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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The woman who solved economic tragedy

2 Feb 20166 Mar 2019
Elinor Ostrom's on-the-ground research showed how actual people within real, living cultures overcome Hardin's "Tragedy of the Commons" (more accurately, “The Tragedy of Unmanaged, Laissez-Faire, Common-Pool Resources with Easy Access…

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