Posted 04 Aug 2009 / 1
Sunny Power started off the first full day of ESA’s meeting with a great overview of where the society has been and where it is headed. My impression has been that ESA has been slowly asserting its rightful place as not only a source of scientific information relevant to policy but also an active commentator Read More
A Major Post, Conferences, Ecological Society of America, Ecology Education, Public Policy, Senescence, Sustainability, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Urban Ecology
Posted 03 Jun 2009 / 0
A few years ago when I was still a graduate student in Stony Brook University’s Department of Ecology and Evolution, a group of us formed a reading group with the ambitious moniker “Social Policy and Global Progress”. Our ambitions in forming the group were clear: we wanted to ground our understanding of ecology and evolution Read More
A Major Post, Climate Change, Ecology, Food, Hunger, Public Policy, Sustainability, Vegetarianism
Posted 13 May 2009 / 0
On May 3rd and 4th I attended and participated in a public symposium at Columbia University entitled “Science and Religion in Dialogue for a Sustainable Future”. The symposium, co-sponsored by Columbia’s Center for the Study of Science and Religion and The Fetzer Institute, was part of the Common Ground symposium series. Jeffrey Sachs, who writes Read More
A Major Post, Cooperation, Environmental Justice, Religion, Sustainability
Posted 18 Mar 2009 / 0
Why blog? That’s a question that I haven’t been able to answer for a long time. A first belief: for me, “belief” in something implies action. I can have an “understanding” of something – I can understand that there is a problem because people are suffering in Darfur – but for me to really “believe” Read More
A Major Post, Belief, Ecology, Evolution
