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…
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…
Culture Change… Cultivating Ecosystem Gardens of Health and Hope 20 Jun 2016 This is a talk I gave last week at the conference "Spontaneous Beauties?" World Gardens and Gardens in the World at NTU (YouTube video of practice talk, and SlideShare of…
Culture Change… Mind-mapping a career path 19 May 201619 May 2016 I'm deep in job search mode, meaning I'm spending a lot of time just looking for something that might fit, and sending out applications. But there are deeper questions I…
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…
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…
Living Systems… World Wildlife Day: It’s about their lives 3 Mar 20163 Mar 2016 In this beautiful essay, naturalist Paul Rosolie reminds us that it's not just about ecosystem accounting. It's about individual, intelligent animals. It's about tapping into our compassion and empathy. It's…
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…
Culture Change… 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…
Ponderings of a Perplexed Primate 