This recent article portrays some climate change information in a very visual way. After opening the link, click on the magnifying glass to enlarge the graph and see the power of the information it communicates. Surely, this is enough for all of our elected officials to put in their New Year's resolution, to act now.
What a powerful story, particularly the message at the end.
In this video, Daniel Kahneman probes human well-being, and the riddle of how direct human experience often varies from human memory, which is particularly important to story telling animals. We have two selves—the experiencing self who lives in the present, and the remembering self, that keeps score and maintains the stories of our life. Time is the critical variable that distinguishes the two selves, and has little impact on the story.
I agree completely with the latest edition of the Economist about the need for a new agenda. I have two models to suggest--our action agenda for rethinking growth and prosperity and the key role cooperatives can play.
I have been rather silent lately, as I lost a cherished friend on Wednesday, November 7, 2012, our beloved older dog, Yazar. As an academic I often wonder about the fine line between my professional and personal lives, and hesitate to write anything about the latter.
November 29th, 2012
October 26th, 2012
I am back on my beloved campus at Royal Roads, it really is such a beautiful place here. Place matters very much to me, as I believe it matters to most people, and the diversity of scholarship here makes for some wonderful conversations. In our Live Chat last week on the climate adaptation and mitigation project, we talked about the importance of language, rather than 'carbon neutral' which could be perceived as not moving forward, 'climate positive' policies may be seen as more action oriented.
September 28th, 2012
My research/practitioner team just met over the weekend in Kingsburgh, Nova Scotia to discuss what we thought we should be doing over the next year. Kingsburgh is a very beautiful place, an old fishing village about an hour and a half from Halifax, with very reasonable accommodation right on the ocean, a magical part of this country. It exemplifies some of our problems, however, as many of the old fishing homes have been beautifully renovated and there are huge seasonal homes ranging from 2.5 million to 5 million dollars.