Culture Change… …and I feel fine… 21 Dec 20122 Mar 2013 Happy Solstice 2012! While the Mayans have plans for coming years, this is prophesied to be a major time of transitions. Others are calling this U-Day, a day of global…
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…
climate… Climate Emergency Petition 6 Sep 20126 Sep 2012 The Climate Emergency Petition calls on the presidential candidates of the two largest political parties in the USA to publicly acknowledge the climate emergency and commit to hosting a summit within their first…
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… Promoting Sustainable Choices at College Events 27 Apr 2012 To put it as diplomatically as possible, we experienced some challenges in attempts to make a recent event more sustainable, especially in regards to the free food that was offered…
Culture Change… AASHE’s ‘Higher Education Occupation’ Project 21 Feb 201221 Feb 2012 The Occupy Movement should give true sustainability advocates reason for hope. Sustainability isn't just about cleaning up our environmental act, but about building a new society that respects peopleand planet. Sustainability…
Culture Change… Painful Topics: Primate Conservation 29 Jan 20129 May 2018 I realize that the title of my blog probably makes some think that I'd be talking about non-human primates a bit more. But, despite the fact that I could be…
disasters… California’s Higher-Education Disaster – The Chronicle of Higher Education 15 Jan 201227 May 2016 ...budget cuts caused enrollment in California community colleges to decline by over 400,000 students. That’s more than the total number of undergraduates enrolled in the entire California State University system.…
disasters… Marine Debris from 2011 Japan Tsunami 30 Dec 2011 Shortly after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, I mentioned the concern about what would happen as all that stuff moved out into the Pacific. See video below for a…
Culture Change… 11 Holiday Gift Programs That Benefit Nonprofits and Make the World A Better Place :: 2011 Edition « Nonprofit Tech 2.0 Blog :: A Social Media Guide for Nonprofits 27 Nov 201127 Nov 2011 While my favorite shopping option is Buy Nothing Day (followed closely, in at least two senses, by Buy Local Day - I succeeded with both this year), there are often a few…
Ponderings of a Perplexed Primate 