Environmental Ramblings

This is a place for the free and honest exchange of ideas about many of the ecological and environmental issues that we face on regular basis. You are encouraged to contribute and share your thoughts with your colleagues in a frank but respectful style. The commentary is NOT moderated so please act responsibly. Let us prove Hardin wrong, at least in this space, cooperation is the way out of the tragedy of the commons!!!!

Monday, March 16, 2009

Human-Animal Bonds

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Any way you look at it, E O Wilson is one of the greatest thinkers and most creative minds in the world. Besides being a professor at Harvar...
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Sunday, March 01, 2009

Monkeysphere / World Population/ Carbon emmissions

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(1)The following URL should take you to an article suggested by Aaron Fetto from the NYC campus. It is a rather lengthy post but a very inte...
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Saturday, February 28, 2009

Water Water Everywhere But Not A Drop To Drink

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The old rhyme of "The Old Mariner" has become an excellent description of the state of fresh water scarcity in the world. The UN a...
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Saturday, February 21, 2009

Urban Sprawl

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A major criticism of conventional, mainstream thinking is its inability to distinguish the forests from the trees, so to speak. There seems ...
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Saturday, February 14, 2009

Unintended Consequences

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It has been well known for years that Global Warming cannot be reversed. The best that we can hope for is to adopt policies and enact measur...
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Friday, February 06, 2009

Is This For Real?

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We have all heard the term shallow environmentalism but I never thought that shallowness could become sooooo thin. The upcoming Grammy Award...
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Who Would Have Thunk It?

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It is always most gratifying when positive developments occur at a place where they were least expected to happen. Environmental awareness i...
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Monday, January 19, 2009

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Arguably the most eloquent case for biodiversity , sustainability and environmental justice has never been made clearer than in the words of...
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Frivolty is in the eye of the Beholder

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Only the Necessities of Life I have always found it sad and amusing at the same time that very few, if any, practice praxis. It seems that i...
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Monday, May 19, 2008

Earth Day 2008

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Our scientific, technological and modern world is built on a strong belief in the autonomy of the natural system and the unbounded resourcef...
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Sunday, February 10, 2008

Your Opinion Matters

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I would like to invite each of you to post your opinion on whether you regard population as an environmental problem and if so what would be...
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Friday, November 23, 2007

Is you is or is you ain't?

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Oh how I wish that I can report on an event that is both ecologically friendly and yet meaningful at the same time. Unfortunately these even...
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Sunday, November 11, 2007

Our $ Share

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"Nations that have grown rich in part by polluting without facing the costs of doing so must now repay their carbon debt to the devel...
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Another Gloomy Environmental Assessment

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You are encouraged to take a look at a relatively exaustive analysis of the Global Environmental Outlook by visiting the site of UNEP and ...
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Saturday, October 20, 2007

Sink, What Sink?

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The original estimates about the expected level of Carbon dioxide concentration have been too high. Upon further investigations the anomaly ...
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Saturday, October 13, 2007

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Nobel Peace Prize ups pressure for climate action It is not clear whether Al Gore would have been as influential in spreading the case for ...
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Sunday, October 07, 2007

Affluence

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The common mainstream environmental wisdom seems to connect poverty with environmental scarcity and degradation. As you might have noticed o...
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Friday, October 05, 2007

Why Climate Change Can't be Stoped?

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A short article that appeared as a web exclusive by Foreign Policy argues that we have done too little and that we are too late to stop clim...
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Sunday, September 30, 2007

Global Warming Revisited

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The UN held a mini summit on Global warming early last week in an effort to galvanize interest in the new Kyoto agreement. The next major me...
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Saturday, September 22, 2007

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The Pot Calling the Kettle Black !! Many of the most connected political operati...
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