Obama’s Climate Speech
Yesterday, President Obama gave a speech at Georgetown University on the issue of climate change. The biggest news to come from that speech is his directive to the EPA to limit carbon pollution from...
View ArticleThe meaning of money
I will be teaching a graduate level course in “Ecological Economics” this semester, a field of interdisciplinary economics that is usually classified under “heterodox” economics or, as the French like...
View ArticleHousehold Sustainability, for the average Joe
Someone recently shared with me this news story about two men in Ontario who are going “off the grid” this summer as an experiment in sustainable living. They live in a two-bedroom apartment in a...
View Article30 years in the blink of an eye
Time, NASA, USGS and Google have joined forces to create a stunning tool to visualize the extensive change that has occurred on our planet at human hands. Dubbed “Timelapse“, millions of Landsat...
View ArticleOpen-source 3D Printing Technologies: Toward a Sustainable Future?
At the end of July, I had the opportunity to sit in on a workshop on open-source 3D printing technologies happening here on Tech’s campus. Sponsored the Square One Educational Network, this workshop...
View ArticleHappy new semester! Happy planet?
As we move ever closer to the beginning of the fall semester, I am struck by something I read recently about how we think about – and measure – aggregated well-being. My hope is that all students can...
View ArticleThe price of gold and the loss of forests
“Everything is connected” is something we say so often in ecology that it often loses its meaning. However, this new study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences really...
View ArticleBringing Solar Energy Technology to Campus
Have you ever used solar energy to charge your laptop or cellphone? Have you ever had the chance to watch a battery’s charging meter go up as it takes in power from the sun? Would you like to learn...
View ArticleDevelopment vs. growth
I’m live-blogging this week from the US-IALE conference in Anchorage Alaska….. a lot of great discussions going on here! Brian Czech from the Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy gave...
View ArticleWhose pollution is it?
Now that it is summer, I finally have some time to write about papers published this year that have been quite interesting. I’ll start here first with one published by Lin et al. in PNAS back in...
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