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Tag Archives: sustainability
How I became a global citizen.
Well, this post title is a bit misleading. If I’m truly to reflect on how I became a global citizen, then this post would be really quite short. I was born into this global community in a hospital in Ping-Tung, Taiwan, … Continue reading
simplicity often lies on the other side of complexity
At the core of sustainable thinking is systemic (not systematic) thinking. This short, under-4-minute TED talk illustrates it fantastically. Eric Berlow says, “Simplicity often lies on the other side of complexity. So for any problem, the more you can zoom … Continue reading
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Tagged complexity, simplicity, sustainability, systems, thinking
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7 billion people
The world population will soon reach 7 billion and National Geographic is doing a fantastic special series about it. Chock-full of great resources. As expected from NatGeo, fantastic design and all-around worthy of your (and your students’) time. Fabulous promo … Continue reading
seeing the consequeces
Many of us find it damn near impossible to care or act on global issues precisely because they’re global. The consequences of our actions are too far and too collective for an individual to feel direct responsibility or impact. Which … Continue reading
worst week ever
“We’re still acting as if the economy is the thing that’s real, the thing with physical weight and force. We’re acting as if the natural world is the abstraction, the intellectual concept that we can adjust to better suit our … Continue reading
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Tagged dirty energy, disaster, fossil fuels, sustainability
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x’s for animal eyes
In working on education for sustainability, I have begun to feel an undeniable tension between educating students about global issues (which is critically important) and preventing them from gaining a cliched “environmentalist” doom-and-gloom of the world, wherein everything humans do … Continue reading
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