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!!!!

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Big Food and Big Finance!!!

Although we will not discuss food production in this course many have demonstrated an interest in the field. As a result I would like for yo...

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Slavoj Zizek en Occupy Wall Street

An interesting, informative and yet entertaining presentation by one of the top intellectuals in the world. Take a listen

Friday, September 30, 2011

I am for clean energy provided it is in someone else's backyard

It has often been said that a picture is worth a thousand words. Well in this case it sure is. I honestly think that it would be redundant t...

Saturday, September 24, 2011

Rogue Herbicide

It is as if the problems associated with Round up , a herbicide produced by Monsanto, are not enough to worry about. As the previous post no...

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Super Weeds

Well it happened again. Monsanto the company that gave us Terminator seeds, those that are designed to become infertile so that farmers wil...

Monday, September 19, 2011

Smart Planet

Frankly , I post this with lots of trepidation since , as you should know by now, I do not share the view that the following information has...

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Green Capitalism: A failure

The attached powerpoint presentaion ia a brief set of "bullets" that I used for a lecture at the LeftForum in which I maintain tha...

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

US Upcoming elections and Climate Change.Elections

The following article appeared a few days ago in NatureNews. It should prove helpful in helping you understand the positions taken by the ma...

Sunday, October 10, 2010

Climate Change: The Bickering Goes On

The Kyoto Protocol, the only international agreement to fight climate change, will come to an end in two years, 2012. The world, including t...

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Frankestein Salmon?

Many will argue that a genetically engineered Salmon is safe to eat. That might be the case in the short run but we cannot be sure that such...

Thursday, September 16, 2010

Family Planning: The Cheapest Way To Prevent Climate Disaster?

(This post appeared in National Geographic News and it does touch on an issue that we discussed in class today. Hat tip to Sayed) A sturdy c...

Monday, September 13, 2010

Which is worse BP oil or BP dispersants?

The chemicals BP has relied on to break up the steady flow of leaking oil from deep below the Gulf of Mexico could create a new set of envir...

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Water Insecurity In MENA

“Water water everywhere ,Nor a drop to drink” from the Rime of the Ancient Mariner is an adequate description to the water insecurity that ...

Saturday, July 17, 2010

Hybrid cars will not save us, less population will.

We are often told that one major consequence of industrialization and modernity is the resulting climate change and its deleterious effects....

Thursday, July 15, 2010

Peak Oil

Energy is best defined as the “capacity to do work”; there cannot be life without it. That is simply what is meant by saying that life on pl...

Friday, April 23, 2010

Earth Day 2010

Forty years ago Earth Day was born and it validated what is perhaps the most promising social movement of the last century and arguably at l...

Monday, March 22, 2010

A potentially Catastrophic Methane Leak

In a recent study published by Science magazine in the March 5 2010 issue it was announced that a group of scientists from over 12 different...

Monday, March 01, 2010

Summer Internship

United States Environmental Protection Agency Region 2 - New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands ...

Monday, February 22, 2010

It Is Not Too Late If We Act Now

It is not very often that we get credible ecological news that is not full of bad news and projections. Well, I am glad to say that the foll...

Sunday, February 14, 2010

Carbon Tax

Sovereign debt , as a potentially crippling fiscal problem world wide, has risen to the forefront over the past few months. Whether it is th...

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