February 2012
5 posts
Short interview with anthropologist Igor Krupnik over at Science:
Q: What are some of the biggest differences in how indigenous people and scientists look for change or perceive change in the environment?
I.K.: I wouldn’t put it like “indigenous people” and “scientists.” It’s a difference between someone who lives in the environment daily, and someone who studies it [at a distance]. If...
Tipping Toward Sustainability: Emerging Pathways... →
For the list:
This article explores the links between agency, institutions, and innovation in navigating shifts and large-scale transformations toward global sustainability. Our central question is whether social and technical innovations can reverse the trends that are challenging critical thresholds and creating tipping points in the earth system, and if not, what conditions are necessary to...
Felix: philk: “OK, the idea that kids these days... →
philk:
“OK, the idea that kids these days are “digital natives” is a nice, self-serving fairy tale. It makes tech-lovers feel good, because they feel like they are at the front of a curve. It makes educators feel good, because then they don’t have to teach a complicated and multi-level sets…
This is what I’m on about.
David Cameron says Britain is practicing austerity, cutting the budget left and right.
Economists and hackey op-ed writers write about how Cameron’s austerity is hurting the the British economy.
But meanwhile the Brits are running the third highest deficit in the world. ~8.8% of GDP, smaller than only Egypt and Greece. If that is our working definition...
The world can no longer afford to ignore the environmental cost of economic growth and must redefine the very concept of national wealth, a UN panel of heads of state and environment ministers said Monday.
Duh.
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