December 2010
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Quotes from Kransy & Tidball 2009
Applying a Resilience Systems Framework to Urban Environmental Education by Marianne E. Kransy and Keith G. Tidball (2009)
“…the resilience framework is attentive to complexity, non-linearity, unpredictability, and other factors that impact the outcomes of EE; thus it challenges environmental educators to look beyond behavioral and other individual-level outcomes and consider the role of...
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Happy New Years!
To do this weekend
New most important: Pick up new skis from shop, ski (done)
2nd most important: Revise project proposal and send to UAF
Secure home wi-fi (done)
Reset BlackBerry contacts
Organize PDFs, load into Papers
Outline CIES paper
Refresh the GTD projects and action lists
To not do this weekend
Wander around Wikipedia
Get sucked into mindless TV (whoops)
Watch those YouTubes...
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“What if America approached innovation with more than just technology? What if,...”
– On Meaningful Observation
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A Sense of Fair Play?
[Lee County Superintendent Jeff] Moss said students who accidentally carry a weapon and report it to teachers will get a light punishment. If teachers find it, he said, the discipline is harsher.
The whole story is worth the read, but it’s important to note that Moss is saying the policy acknowledges the fact that a student accidentally brought a weapon on campus (in this case, a...
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Sustainability and the Measurement of Wealth →
Kenneth J. Arrow, Partha Dasgupta, Lawrence H. Goulder, Kevin J. Mumford, Kirsten Oleson
We develop a consistent and comprehensive theoretical framework for assessing whether economic growth is compatible with sustaining well-being over time. The framework focuses on whether a comprehensive measure of wealth – one that accounts for natural capital and human capital as well as reproducible...
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Wait. What? pt. 2,365
Michael Grove, British Education Secretary, writing in the Telegraph
And nowhere has that been more needed than in education, where I am happy to confess I’d like us to implement a cultural revolution just like the one they’ve had in China.
I cannot think of a worse choice of words.
Oh wait, yes I can:
Like Chairman Mao, we’ve embarked on a Long March to reform our education...
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“Loosely defined, resilience is the capacity of a system—be it an individual, a...”
– Carl Folke in Seed via Resilience Science
“By writing prose that is nearly unintelligible not just to the general public,...”
– Bad Writing and Bad Thinking - Do Your Job Better - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Catch Shares →
Collins is also concerned about fishermen who make smaller catches. In Alaskan fisheries that use catch shares, some smaller boats opted to sell their fish quotas.
“That concentrated the resource in fewer and fewer hands. Now, I tend to think that public trust resources should be used to employ as many people as possible,” he says.
As Alex points out, that’s a feature,...