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2009-07-23T22:09:56Z

Davidzaks: /* Cluster Research Ideas */

Please refer to the [http://www.santafe.edu/events/workshops/index.php/CSSS_2009_Santa_Fe-Projects_%26_Working_Groups Complex Systems Summer School] groups page to get an idea of self organization and working groups.

=='''Cluster Research Ideas'''==

===Ecosystem Services, Biodiversity, Food and Ag===

1) How can the global food and land-use systems decrease their negative environmental impact and adapt to climate change while mitigating its effects?

2) Expanding and '''standardizing''' measurement, monitoring, and verification of global ecosystem services.

3) How can we sustainably use ocean and freshwater systems (drinking water, fishing, aquaculture, recreation, and biodiversity)?

===Developing World===

4) How to foster innovation/knowledge sharing within the developing world in regards to improving livelihoods & ensuring sustainability? (e.g. Indeigenous Knowledge, solutions appropriate for agricultural lifestyles)?

5) How would technological transfer from developed to developing nations (or vice versa) for climate change adaptation and mitigation actually occur? (e.g. acocuntability, $$, open source software, govt to govt, private to private, incentives for innovation)

6) How do we get to an equitable distribution of responsibility for climate change mitigation & adaptation around the globe? (e.g. emission reduction burdens, adaptation funds, ranking vulnerability)

===Policy/Regulatory Environment===

7) How can complexity science support streamlining development and adoption of technologies and practices?

8) How to effectively translate research into policy, practice and intervention (with diverse collaborators, partnerships, initiatives, etc.)

9) How do we transform policies affecting global sustainability (path dependence, complex adaptive policy, integration, scalability, etc.)

10) What types of policies can promote sustainability and how to meaningfully enforce them? (individual initiatives, systems approaches, international agreements)

===Decision Sciences===

11) How do we understand/how do we change/what are
the rules of the game, especially as applied to:
economic growth theory
agricultural/eco systems
social systems?

12) What drives societal transformation (in terms of values, norms, practices, and livelihoods strategies) & how can complex system science help to productively shed light on those processes?

===Climate Change===

13) How can we better quantify uncertainty when we are in uncharted territory of the climate system (where change is happening faster and involving feedbacks we don't yet understand?

14) How do we develop useful integrated models? Are there feedback mechanisms that we don't understand?

15) How does climate change affect uncertainties and challenges in modeling de-carbonization & the energy system?

===Human Well-Being, Sociology, Advocacy===

16) How can we best change consumption and political behaviors?

17) How can population growth be part of the dialogue?

18) What techniques & strategies from past social movements can be used to initiate and sustain new social movements?

19) How do cultural conceptions of nature influence sustainability? What kind of educational strategies are needed to foster values that facilitate sustainability?

20) How can we anticipate & mitigate resource-based human conflicts?

===Mitigation and Adaptation===

21) What technologies are still needed to evaluate environmental impacts?

22) What is our vision for a sustainable future?

23) Which low-carbon or carbon neutral technologies or practices are needed, or need to be developed for a sustainable future?

===Complexity===

24) To what degree does heterogeneity facilitate the adoption & spread of sustainable technologies or practices?

25) Are entropy and sustainability opposing or supporting forces? Under what conditions?

26) Can ideas from complexity be used to improve integrated design practices for new technology (and retrofit technology?)

27) What methods can be used and developed to quantify interactions between previously developed models of human, physical, and economic systems?

===Mitigation and Adaptation Continued===

28) How will we address projected phosphorus shortages? (2020-2050)

29) How are adaptation ideas distributed or shared? (Technology/Idea Transfer)

30) Can localization become an adaptive strategy?

31) What technologies or tools are still needed to evaluate environmental impacts?

===Proposals for Combination===

#2 and 21
#7 and 26 and 4
#12 and 18
#15 and 23 and 6
#8 and 9 and 16
#1 and 3
#1 and 27
#12 16 and 19

===Op-Ed Paragraphs===
While the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere will have catastrophic consequences if not reversed, when planning for future sustainability, it is imperative to better understand ecosystems and the goods and services they provide. A globally integrated system to measure, monitor, model, verify and communicate the current state of ecosystem services and how they respond to natural and anthropogenic changes is needed. In order to identify patterns and processes that are emergent at various scales, a wide range of data are needed across various spatial and temporal scales. Collecting and analyzing the flows of ecosystem services needs to be used as an input to a broad range of policies to ensure the future availability of these important services. This needs to be coupled to the appropriate distillation of data and trends for consumption by the general public. Systems that humans depend on for the continuous delivery of goods and services relating to food, water, climate and health are highlighted in the proposal as important agenda items for future research relating to ecosystem services and human well-being.

==Project Groups==
[http://www.santafe.edu/events/workshops/index.php/CSSS_2009_Santa_Fe-Modeling-Cluster Modeling Cluster (Q 13-14-30-27)]

[http://www.santafe.edu/events/workshops/index.php/CSSS_2009_Santa_Fe-Complexity-Science Complexity Approaches (Q 7-24-25-26)]

Summer School on Global Sustainability-Blog

2009-07-23T15:14:57Z

Davidzaks: /* Thursday, July 23 */

{{Summer School on Global Sustainability}}

Post any observations, reactions, insights, links to interesting material, or open questions here. This is an informal page, so use it as you wish.

==Sunday, July 12==

==Monday, July 13==

Hi all,

Here are a few links to information on Ecological Economics and the work of Herman Daly (founder of the field). These themes came up today in group conversation, and I thought the following articles might be useful as additional background as we all ponder what sustainability might look like.

[http://growthmadness.org/2007/09/03/can-we-grow-our-way-to-an-environmentally-sustainable-world/ Can we grow our way to an environmentally sustainable world?]

[http://www.grist.org/article/bank The economic heresy of Herman Daly]

[http://www.eoearth.org/article/Herman_Daly_Festschrift~_Toward_a_sustainable_and_desirable_future~_a_30_year_collaboration_with_Herman_Daly Herman Daly Festschrift: Toward a sustainable and desirable future: a 30 year collaboration with Herman Daly]

And if you feel like getting political about it, there is always the [http://www.steadystate.org/ Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy (CASSE).]

Enjoy!

-Jenny

Hi All
FYI - there are a number of cool videos on ecological economics at the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics site: [http://www.uvm.edu/giee/?Page=videos.html&defaultmenu.html]
There is a free online course in ecological economics as well: [http://metacourses.org/ecologicaleconomics/]
They also have a listing of PDF's of articles that Gund fellows have contributed to that should be free to download: [http://www.uvm.edu/giee/?Page=publications.html&default_menu.html]
If you have questions about the Institute, its players or Ecological Economics, see Samir or Anthony - we are both based there.
Cheers
Anthony

==Tuesday, July 14==

==Wednesday, July 15==
Here are a couple of papers that I thought people might find interesting reading...

[http://www.sd-commission.org.uk/pages/redefining-prosperity.html Prosperity Without Growth?]
This a report by Professor Tim Jackson (my PhD supervisor) proposes twelve steps towards a sustainable economy and argues for a redefinition of "prosperity" in line with evidence about what contributes to people’s wellbeing.

[http://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/NR/rdonlyres/6E0B4E96-3ECA-427B-8D86-1C241D04AACC/0/climatepolicybackoncourse.pdf How to Get Climate Policy Back on Course]
The authors of this paper suggest a direct approach be taken to the decarbonization of the global energy system rather than the indirect approach of creating an international carbon market. Existing & known policy mechanisms should be used rather than setting up a carbon market that has great uncertainty for delivering the environmental goal of stabilising emissions. They argue it would be more effective to expend effort on making incremental progress based on what we know rather than trying to get international agreement on the timetables and targets, which is proving so challenging.

Ciao, Catherine

==Thursday, July 16==
For example, there is the oft-told story about Larry Shepp, a famous mathematician at Rutgers University. Dr. Shepp, when told that a piece of work he thought was his discovery actually duplicated another mathematician's breakthrough, replied: "Yes, but when I discovered it, it stayed discovered."

From "Pity the Scientist Who Discovers the Discovered"
NY Times February 5, 2006

James Balog - Arctic photography
http://www.extremeicesurvey.org/

[[jp]]Catherine and I had an interesting discussion on Tuesday regarding the bubble cycle of capitalism, which can be seen as a negative thing in many cases because it leads to wealth centralization and then disintegration. Still, bubbles do serve a functional purpose in society. Imagine the internet infrastructure without the dot-com bubble or look around at the housing infrastructure left after the most recent boom.

This article is from Rolling Stone, July 13th so it's already ages old for some of you. Still, it's provocative to think that there might be a market "solution" or influence towards accelerating green adoption.
[http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/29127316/the_great_american_bubble_machine/print The Great American Bubble Machine by Matt Tiabbi]

==Friday, July 17==

[http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jul/13/manchester-report-climate-change1 The Manchester Report: 20 ideas for solving the climate crisis] - The solutions picked by the Guardian and Manchester International Festival's expert panel as the most promising for tackling global warming

[http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204771304574181522575503150.html It’s Time to Cool the Planet] - A well reasoned piece on the need to consider geoengineering.

==Saturday, July 18==

You might be interested in the interview I had with Andy Revkin for Worldchanging.com that can be found [http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/005455.html here]. Make sure to listen to his song "Liberated Carbon" -- [http://www.santafe.edu/events/workshops/index.php/David_Zaks dz]

For those looking to increase their media / communications skills, the [http://leopoldleadership.stanford.edu/ Leopold Leadership Program] at the Woods Institute for the Environment "advances environmental decision-making by providing academic researchers with the skills and connections needed to be effective leaders and communicators". -- [http://www.santafe.edu/events/workshops/index.php/David_Zaks dz]

After a long day of talks, you might be interested in hearing my colleague Jamais Cascio talk about [http://www.amplify.amp.com.au/themes/amplify/playa.php?videoid=43649 "What if we really COULD change the future for the better?"] from the [http://www.amplify.amp.com.au/ ReMaking Tomorrow] conference -- [http://www.santafe.edu/events/workshops/index.php/David_Zaks dz]

I found an extended article about the [http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1626519,00.html "Food for a Week"] photography that was shown during a presentation this morning and I thought it was interesting. - April

==Sunday, July 19==

==Monday, July 20==

==Tuesday, July 21==

I thought that the "Material World" photos were thought provoking, and I found more [http://menzelphoto.peripix.com/viewdetails/item/10802/size/300/1/ here]. - April

All, here is a quick summary of the Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy's Recovery Act activities ($16.8 billion worth of projects moving energy efficiency and renewable energy forward). The current Senate version of the climate bill (came out of committee Friday) includes a doubling of our research and development budget from about $3 billion to over $6 billion by 2013. It might not be fast enough to solve the climate problem, but we are ramping up activities at an unprecedented pace. - Carla

*[[Media:ARRA EERE.ppt | Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Recovery Act]]

==Wednesday, July 22==

[http://e360.yale.edu/images/digest/2009-ccs-report-harvard.pdf Realistic Costs of Carbon Capture]

[[Johnson Nkem]] has asked this be posted for your review:
*[[Media:Emitters.pdf | Sharing Global CO2 Emission Reductions among One Billion High Emitters]]

==Thursday, July 23==

[http://spiel-keep-cool.de/ Keep Cool - Gambling with the Climate]

==Friday, July 24==

==Saturday, July 25==

Summer School on Global Sustainability-Blog

2009-07-22T19:45:41Z

Davidzaks: /* Wednesday, July 22 */

{{Summer School on Global Sustainability}}

Post any observations, reactions, insights, links to interesting material, or open questions here. This is an informal page, so use it as you wish.

==Sunday, July 12==

==Monday, July 13==

Hi all,

Here are a few links to information on Ecological Economics and the work of Herman Daly (founder of the field). These themes came up today in group conversation, and I thought the following articles might be useful as additional background as we all ponder what sustainability might look like.

[http://growthmadness.org/2007/09/03/can-we-grow-our-way-to-an-environmentally-sustainable-world/ Can we grow our way to an environmentally sustainable world?]

[http://www.grist.org/article/bank The economic heresy of Herman Daly]

[http://www.eoearth.org/article/Herman_Daly_Festschrift~_Toward_a_sustainable_and_desirable_future~_a_30_year_collaboration_with_Herman_Daly Herman Daly Festschrift: Toward a sustainable and desirable future: a 30 year collaboration with Herman Daly]

And if you feel like getting political about it, there is always the [http://www.steadystate.org/ Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy (CASSE).]

Enjoy!

-Jenny

Hi All
FYI - there are a number of cool videos on ecological economics at the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics site: [http://www.uvm.edu/giee/?Page=videos.html&defaultmenu.html]
There is a free online course in ecological economics as well: [http://metacourses.org/ecologicaleconomics/]
They also have a listing of PDF's of articles that Gund fellows have contributed to that should be free to download: [http://www.uvm.edu/giee/?Page=publications.html&default_menu.html]
If you have questions about the Institute, its players or Ecological Economics, see Samir or Anthony - we are both based there.
Cheers
Anthony

==Tuesday, July 14==

==Wednesday, July 15==
Here are a couple of papers that I thought people might find interesting reading...

[http://www.sd-commission.org.uk/pages/redefining-prosperity.html Prosperity Without Growth?]
This a report by Professor Tim Jackson (my PhD supervisor) proposes twelve steps towards a sustainable economy and argues for a redefinition of "prosperity" in line with evidence about what contributes to people’s wellbeing.

[http://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/NR/rdonlyres/6E0B4E96-3ECA-427B-8D86-1C241D04AACC/0/climatepolicybackoncourse.pdf How to Get Climate Policy Back on Course]
The authors of this paper suggest a direct approach be taken to the decarbonization of the global energy system rather than the indirect approach of creating an international carbon market. Existing & known policy mechanisms should be used rather than setting up a carbon market that has great uncertainty for delivering the environmental goal of stabilising emissions. They argue it would be more effective to expend effort on making incremental progress based on what we know rather than trying to get international agreement on the timetables and targets, which is proving so challenging.

Ciao, Catherine

==Thursday, July 16==
For example, there is the oft-told story about Larry Shepp, a famous mathematician at Rutgers University. Dr. Shepp, when told that a piece of work he thought was his discovery actually duplicated another mathematician's breakthrough, replied: "Yes, but when I discovered it, it stayed discovered."

From "Pity the Scientist Who Discovers the Discovered"
NY Times February 5, 2006

James Balog - Arctic photography
http://www.extremeicesurvey.org/

[[jp]]Catherine and I had an interesting discussion on Tuesday regarding the bubble cycle of capitalism, which can be seen as a negative thing in many cases because it leads to wealth centralization and then disintegration. Still, bubbles do serve a functional purpose in society. Imagine the internet infrastructure without the dot-com bubble or look around at the housing infrastructure left after the most recent boom.

This article is from Rolling Stone, July 13th so it's already ages old for some of you. Still, it's provocative to think that there might be a market "solution" or influence towards accelerating green adoption.
[http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/29127316/the_great_american_bubble_machine/print The Great American Bubble Machine by Matt Tiabbi]

==Friday, July 17==

[http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jul/13/manchester-report-climate-change1 The Manchester Report: 20 ideas for solving the climate crisis] - The solutions picked by the Guardian and Manchester International Festival's expert panel as the most promising for tackling global warming

[http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204771304574181522575503150.html It’s Time to Cool the Planet] - A well reasoned piece on the need to consider geoengineering.

==Saturday, July 18==

You might be interested in the interview I had with Andy Revkin for Worldchanging.com that can be found [http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/005455.html here]. Make sure to listen to his song "Liberated Carbon" -- [http://www.santafe.edu/events/workshops/index.php/David_Zaks dz]

For those looking to increase their media / communications skills, the [http://leopoldleadership.stanford.edu/ Leopold Leadership Program] at the Woods Institute for the Environment "advances environmental decision-making by providing academic researchers with the skills and connections needed to be effective leaders and communicators". -- [http://www.santafe.edu/events/workshops/index.php/David_Zaks dz]

After a long day of talks, you might be interested in hearing my colleague Jamais Cascio talk about [http://www.amplify.amp.com.au/themes/amplify/playa.php?videoid=43649 "What if we really COULD change the future for the better?"] from the [http://www.amplify.amp.com.au/ ReMaking Tomorrow] conference -- [http://www.santafe.edu/events/workshops/index.php/David_Zaks dz]

I found an extended article about the [http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1626519,00.html "Food for a Week"] photography that was shown during a presentation this morning and I thought it was interesting. - April

==Sunday, July 19==

==Monday, July 20==

==Tuesday, July 21==

I thought that the "Material World" photos were thought provoking, and I found more [http://menzelphoto.peripix.com/viewdetails/item/10802/size/300/1/ here]. - April

All, here is a quick summary of the Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy's Recovery Act activities ($16.8 billion worth of projects moving energy efficiency and renewable energy forward). The current Senate version of the climate bill (came out of committee Friday) includes a doubling of our research and development budget from about $3 billion to over $6 billion by 2013. It might not be fast enough to solve the climate problem, but we are ramping up activities at an unprecedented pace. - Carla

*[[Media:ARRA EERE.ppt | Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Recovery Act]]

==Wednesday, July 22==

[http://e360.yale.edu/images/digest/2009-ccs-report-harvard.pdf Realistic Costs of Carbon Capture]

==Thursday, July 23==

==Friday, July 24==

==Saturday, July 25==

Summer School on Global Sustainability-Blog

2009-07-18T22:48:05Z

Davidzaks: /* Saturday, July 18 */

{{Summer School on Global Sustainability}}

Post any observations, reactions, insights, links to interesting material, or open questions here. This is an informal page, so use it as you wish.

==Sunday, July 12==

==Monday, July 13==

Hi all,

Here are a few links to information on Ecological Economics and the work of Herman Daly (founder of the field). These themes came up today in group conversation, and I thought the following articles might be useful as additional background as we all ponder what sustainability might look like.

[http://growthmadness.org/2007/09/03/can-we-grow-our-way-to-an-environmentally-sustainable-world/ Can we grow our way to an environmentally sustainable world?]

[http://www.grist.org/article/bank The economic heresy of Herman Daly]

[http://www.eoearth.org/article/Herman_Daly_Festschrift~_Toward_a_sustainable_and_desirable_future~_a_30_year_collaboration_with_Herman_Daly Herman Daly Festschrift: Toward a sustainable and desirable future: a 30 year collaboration with Herman Daly]

And if you feel like getting political about it, there is always the [http://www.steadystate.org/ Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy (CASSE).]

Enjoy!

-Jenny

Hi All
FYI - there are a number of cool videos on ecological economics at the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics site: [http://www.uvm.edu/giee/?Page=videos.html&defaultmenu.html]
There is a free online course in ecological economics as well: [http://metacourses.org/ecologicaleconomics/]
They also have a listing of PDF's of articles that Gund fellows have contributed to that should be free to download: [http://www.uvm.edu/giee/?Page=publications.html&default_menu.html]
If you have questions about the Institute, its players or Ecological Economics, see Samir or Anthony - we are both based there.
Cheers
Anthony

==Tuesday, July 14==

==Wednesday, July 15==
Here are a couple of papers that I thought people might find interesting reading...

[http://www.sd-commission.org.uk/pages/redefining-prosperity.html Prosperity Without Growth?]
This a report by Professor Tim Jackson (my PhD supervisor) proposes twelve steps towards a sustainable economy and argues for a redefinition of "prosperity" in line with evidence about what contributes to people’s wellbeing.

[http://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/NR/rdonlyres/6E0B4E96-3ECA-427B-8D86-1C241D04AACC/0/climatepolicybackoncourse.pdf How to Get Climate Policy Back on Course]
The authors of this paper suggest a direct approach be taken to the decarbonization of the global energy system rather than the indirect approach of creating an international carbon market. Existing & known policy mechanisms should be used rather than setting up a carbon market that has great uncertainty for delivering the environmental goal of stabilising emissions. They argue it would be more effective to expend effort on making incremental progress based on what we know rather than trying to get international agreement on the timetables and targets, which is proving so challenging.

Ciao, Catherine

==Thursday, July 16==
For example, there is the oft-told story about Larry Shepp, a famous mathematician at Rutgers University. Dr. Shepp, when told that a piece of work he thought was his discovery actually duplicated another mathematician's breakthrough, replied: "Yes, but when I discovered it, it stayed discovered."

From "Pity the Scientist Who Discovers the Discovered"
NY Times February 5, 2006

James Balog - Arctic photography
http://www.extremeicesurvey.org/

[[jp]]Catherine and I had an interesting discussion on Tuesday regarding the bubble cycle of capitalism, which can be seen as a negative thing in many cases because it leads to wealth centralization and then disintegration. Still, bubbles do serve a functional purpose in society. Imagine the internet infrastructure without the dot-com bubble or look around at the housing infrastructure left after the most recent boom.

This article is from Rolling Stone, July 13th so it's already ages old for some of you. Still, it's provocative to think that there might be a market "solution" or influence towards accelerating green adoption.
[http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/29127316/the_great_american_bubble_machine/print The Great American Bubble Machine by Matt Tiabbi]

==Friday, July 17==

[http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jul/13/manchester-report-climate-change1 The Manchester Report: 20 ideas for solving the climate crisis] - The solutions picked by the Guardian and Manchester International Festival's expert panel as the most promising for tackling global warming

[http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204771304574181522575503150.html It’s Time to Cool the Planet] - A well reasoned piece on the need to consider geoengineering.

==Saturday, July 18==

You might be interested in the interview I had with Andy Revkin for Worldchanging.com that can be found [http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/005455.html here]. Make sure to listen to his song "Liberated Carbon" -- [http://www.santafe.edu/events/workshops/index.php/David_Zaks dz]

For those looking to increase their media / communications skills, the [http://leopoldleadership.stanford.edu/ Leopold Leadership Program] at the Woods Institute for the Environment "advances environmental decision-making by providing academic researchers with the skills and connections needed to be effective leaders and communicators". -- [http://www.santafe.edu/events/workshops/index.php/David_Zaks dz]

After a long day of talks, you might be interested in hearing my colleague Jamais Cascio talk about [http://www.amplify.amp.com.au/themes/amplify/playa.php?videoid=43649 "What if we really COULD change the future for the better?"] from the [http://www.amplify.amp.com.au/ ReMaking Tomorrow] conference -- [http://www.santafe.edu/events/workshops/index.php/David_Zaks dz]

==Sunday, July 19==

==Monday, July 20==

==Tuesday, July 21==

==Wednesday, July 22==

==Thursday, July 23==

==Friday, July 24==

==Saturday, July 25==

Summer School on Global Sustainability-Blog

2009-07-18T22:45:33Z

Davidzaks: /* Saturday, July 18 */

{{Summer School on Global Sustainability}}

Post any observations, reactions, insights, links to interesting material, or open questions here. This is an informal page, so use it as you wish.

==Sunday, July 12==

==Monday, July 13==

Hi all,

Here are a few links to information on Ecological Economics and the work of Herman Daly (founder of the field). These themes came up today in group conversation, and I thought the following articles might be useful as additional background as we all ponder what sustainability might look like.

[http://growthmadness.org/2007/09/03/can-we-grow-our-way-to-an-environmentally-sustainable-world/ Can we grow our way to an environmentally sustainable world?]

[http://www.grist.org/article/bank The economic heresy of Herman Daly]

[http://www.eoearth.org/article/Herman_Daly_Festschrift~_Toward_a_sustainable_and_desirable_future~_a_30_year_collaboration_with_Herman_Daly Herman Daly Festschrift: Toward a sustainable and desirable future: a 30 year collaboration with Herman Daly]

And if you feel like getting political about it, there is always the [http://www.steadystate.org/ Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy (CASSE).]

Enjoy!

-Jenny

Hi All
FYI - there are a number of cool videos on ecological economics at the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics site: [http://www.uvm.edu/giee/?Page=videos.html&defaultmenu.html]
There is a free online course in ecological economics as well: [http://metacourses.org/ecologicaleconomics/]
They also have a listing of PDF's of articles that Gund fellows have contributed to that should be free to download: [http://www.uvm.edu/giee/?Page=publications.html&default_menu.html]
If you have questions about the Institute, its players or Ecological Economics, see Samir or Anthony - we are both based there.
Cheers
Anthony

==Tuesday, July 14==

==Wednesday, July 15==
Here are a couple of papers that I thought people might find interesting reading...

[http://www.sd-commission.org.uk/pages/redefining-prosperity.html Prosperity Without Growth?]
This a report by Professor Tim Jackson (my PhD supervisor) proposes twelve steps towards a sustainable economy and argues for a redefinition of "prosperity" in line with evidence about what contributes to people’s wellbeing.

[http://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/NR/rdonlyres/6E0B4E96-3ECA-427B-8D86-1C241D04AACC/0/climatepolicybackoncourse.pdf How to Get Climate Policy Back on Course]
The authors of this paper suggest a direct approach be taken to the decarbonization of the global energy system rather than the indirect approach of creating an international carbon market. Existing & known policy mechanisms should be used rather than setting up a carbon market that has great uncertainty for delivering the environmental goal of stabilising emissions. They argue it would be more effective to expend effort on making incremental progress based on what we know rather than trying to get international agreement on the timetables and targets, which is proving so challenging.

Ciao, Catherine

==Thursday, July 16==
For example, there is the oft-told story about Larry Shepp, a famous mathematician at Rutgers University. Dr. Shepp, when told that a piece of work he thought was his discovery actually duplicated another mathematician's breakthrough, replied: "Yes, but when I discovered it, it stayed discovered."

From "Pity the Scientist Who Discovers the Discovered"
NY Times February 5, 2006

James Balog - Arctic photography
http://www.extremeicesurvey.org/

[[jp]]Catherine and I had an interesting discussion on Tuesday regarding the bubble cycle of capitalism, which can be seen as a negative thing in many cases because it leads to wealth centralization and then disintegration. Still, bubbles do serve a functional purpose in society. Imagine the internet infrastructure without the dot-com bubble or look around at the housing infrastructure left after the most recent boom.

This article is from Rolling Stone, July 13th so it's already ages old for some of you. Still, it's provocative to think that there might be a market "solution" or influence towards accelerating green adoption.
[http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/29127316/the_great_american_bubble_machine/print The Great American Bubble Machine by Matt Tiabbi]

==Friday, July 17==

[http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jul/13/manchester-report-climate-change1 The Manchester Report: 20 ideas for solving the climate crisis] - The solutions picked by the Guardian and Manchester International Festival's expert panel as the most promising for tackling global warming

[http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204771304574181522575503150.html It’s Time to Cool the Planet] - A well reasoned piece on the need to consider geoengineering.

==Saturday, July 18==

You might be interested in the interview I had with Andy Revkin for Worldchanging.com that can be found [http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/005455.html here]. Make sure to listen to his song "Liberated Carbon" -- [http://www.santafe.edu/events/workshops/index.php/David_Zaks dz]

For those looking to increase their media / communications skills, the [http://leopoldleadership.stanford.edu/ Leopold Leadership Program] at the Woods Institute for the Environment "advances environmental decision-making by providing academic researchers with the skills and connections needed to be effective leaders and communicators". -- [http://www.santafe.edu/events/workshops/index.php/David_Zaks dz]

After a long day of talks, you might be interested in hearing my colleague Jamais Cascio talk about [http://www.amplify.amp.com.au/themes/amplify/playa.php?videoid=43649 "What if we really COULD change the future for the better?"] from the ReMaking Tomorrow conference -- [http://www.santafe.edu/events/workshops/index.php/David_Zaks dz]

==Sunday, July 19==

==Monday, July 20==

==Tuesday, July 21==

==Wednesday, July 22==

==Thursday, July 23==

==Friday, July 24==

==Saturday, July 25==

Summer School on Global Sustainability-Blog

2009-07-18T22:45:15Z

Davidzaks: /* Saturday, July 18 */

{{Summer School on Global Sustainability}}

Post any observations, reactions, insights, links to interesting material, or open questions here. This is an informal page, so use it as you wish.

==Sunday, July 12==

==Monday, July 13==

Hi all,

Here are a few links to information on Ecological Economics and the work of Herman Daly (founder of the field). These themes came up today in group conversation, and I thought the following articles might be useful as additional background as we all ponder what sustainability might look like.

[http://growthmadness.org/2007/09/03/can-we-grow-our-way-to-an-environmentally-sustainable-world/ Can we grow our way to an environmentally sustainable world?]

[http://www.grist.org/article/bank The economic heresy of Herman Daly]

[http://www.eoearth.org/article/Herman_Daly_Festschrift~_Toward_a_sustainable_and_desirable_future~_a_30_year_collaboration_with_Herman_Daly Herman Daly Festschrift: Toward a sustainable and desirable future: a 30 year collaboration with Herman Daly]

And if you feel like getting political about it, there is always the [http://www.steadystate.org/ Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy (CASSE).]

Enjoy!

-Jenny

Hi All
FYI - there are a number of cool videos on ecological economics at the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics site: [http://www.uvm.edu/giee/?Page=videos.html&defaultmenu.html]
There is a free online course in ecological economics as well: [http://metacourses.org/ecologicaleconomics/]
They also have a listing of PDF's of articles that Gund fellows have contributed to that should be free to download: [http://www.uvm.edu/giee/?Page=publications.html&default_menu.html]
If you have questions about the Institute, its players or Ecological Economics, see Samir or Anthony - we are both based there.
Cheers
Anthony

==Tuesday, July 14==

==Wednesday, July 15==
Here are a couple of papers that I thought people might find interesting reading...

[http://www.sd-commission.org.uk/pages/redefining-prosperity.html Prosperity Without Growth?]
This a report by Professor Tim Jackson (my PhD supervisor) proposes twelve steps towards a sustainable economy and argues for a redefinition of "prosperity" in line with evidence about what contributes to people’s wellbeing.

[http://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/NR/rdonlyres/6E0B4E96-3ECA-427B-8D86-1C241D04AACC/0/climatepolicybackoncourse.pdf How to Get Climate Policy Back on Course]
The authors of this paper suggest a direct approach be taken to the decarbonization of the global energy system rather than the indirect approach of creating an international carbon market. Existing & known policy mechanisms should be used rather than setting up a carbon market that has great uncertainty for delivering the environmental goal of stabilising emissions. They argue it would be more effective to expend effort on making incremental progress based on what we know rather than trying to get international agreement on the timetables and targets, which is proving so challenging.

Ciao, Catherine

==Thursday, July 16==
For example, there is the oft-told story about Larry Shepp, a famous mathematician at Rutgers University. Dr. Shepp, when told that a piece of work he thought was his discovery actually duplicated another mathematician's breakthrough, replied: "Yes, but when I discovered it, it stayed discovered."

From "Pity the Scientist Who Discovers the Discovered"
NY Times February 5, 2006

James Balog - Arctic photography
http://www.extremeicesurvey.org/

[[jp]]Catherine and I had an interesting discussion on Tuesday regarding the bubble cycle of capitalism, which can be seen as a negative thing in many cases because it leads to wealth centralization and then disintegration. Still, bubbles do serve a functional purpose in society. Imagine the internet infrastructure without the dot-com bubble or look around at the housing infrastructure left after the most recent boom.

This article is from Rolling Stone, July 13th so it's already ages old for some of you. Still, it's provocative to think that there might be a market "solution" or influence towards accelerating green adoption.
[http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/29127316/the_great_american_bubble_machine/print The Great American Bubble Machine by Matt Tiabbi]

==Friday, July 17==

[http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jul/13/manchester-report-climate-change1 The Manchester Report: 20 ideas for solving the climate crisis] - The solutions picked by the Guardian and Manchester International Festival's expert panel as the most promising for tackling global warming

[http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204771304574181522575503150.html It’s Time to Cool the Planet] - A well reasoned piece on the need to consider geoengineering.

==Saturday, July 18==

You might be interested in the interview I had with Andy Revkin for Worldchanging.com that can be found [http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/005455.html here]. Make sure to listen to his song "Liberated Carbon" -- [http://www.santafe.edu/events/workshops/index.php/David_Zaks dz]

For those looking to increase their media / communications skills, the [http://leopoldleadership.stanford.edu/ Leopold Leadership Program] at the Woods Institute for the Environment "advances environmental decision-making by providing academic researchers with the skills and connections needed to be effective leaders and communicators". -- [http://www.santafe.edu/events/workshops/index.php/David_Zaks dz]

After a long day of talks, you might be interested in hearing my colleague Jamais Cascio talk about [http://www.amplify.amp.com.au/themes/amplify/playa.php?videoid=43649 "What if we really COULD change the future for the better?"] from the ReMaking Tomorrow conference -- [http://www.santafe.edu/events/workshops/index.php/David_Zaks dz]

==Sunday, July 19==

==Monday, July 20==

==Tuesday, July 21==

==Wednesday, July 22==

==Thursday, July 23==

==Friday, July 24==

==Saturday, July 25==

Summer School on Global Sustainability-Blog

2009-07-18T20:45:45Z

Davidzaks: /* Saturday, July 18 */

{{Summer School on Global Sustainability}}

Post any observations, reactions, insights, links to interesting material, or open questions here. This is an informal page, so use it as you wish.

==Sunday, July 12==

==Monday, July 13==

Hi all,

Here are a few links to information on Ecological Economics and the work of Herman Daly (founder of the field). These themes came up today in group conversation, and I thought the following articles might be useful as additional background as we all ponder what sustainability might look like.

[http://growthmadness.org/2007/09/03/can-we-grow-our-way-to-an-environmentally-sustainable-world/ Can we grow our way to an environmentally sustainable world?]

[http://www.grist.org/article/bank The economic heresy of Herman Daly]

[http://www.eoearth.org/article/Herman_Daly_Festschrift~_Toward_a_sustainable_and_desirable_future~_a_30_year_collaboration_with_Herman_Daly Herman Daly Festschrift: Toward a sustainable and desirable future: a 30 year collaboration with Herman Daly]

And if you feel like getting political about it, there is always the [http://www.steadystate.org/ Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy (CASSE).]

Enjoy!

-Jenny

Hi All
FYI - there are a number of cool videos on ecological economics at the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics site: [http://www.uvm.edu/giee/?Page=videos.html&defaultmenu.html]
There is a free online course in ecological economics as well: [http://metacourses.org/ecologicaleconomics/]
They also have a listing of PDF's of articles that Gund fellows have contributed to that should be free to download: [http://www.uvm.edu/giee/?Page=publications.html&default_menu.html]
If you have questions about the Institute, its players or Ecological Economics, see Samir or Anthony - we are both based there.
Cheers
Anthony

==Tuesday, July 14==

==Wednesday, July 15==
Here are a couple of papers that I thought people might find interesting reading...

[http://www.sd-commission.org.uk/pages/redefining-prosperity.html Prosperity Without Growth?]
This a report by Professor Tim Jackson (my PhD supervisor) proposes twelve steps towards a sustainable economy and argues for a redefinition of "prosperity" in line with evidence about what contributes to people’s wellbeing.

[http://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/NR/rdonlyres/6E0B4E96-3ECA-427B-8D86-1C241D04AACC/0/climatepolicybackoncourse.pdf How to Get Climate Policy Back on Course]
The authors of this paper suggest a direct approach be taken to the decarbonization of the global energy system rather than the indirect approach of creating an international carbon market. Existing & known policy mechanisms should be used rather than setting up a carbon market that has great uncertainty for delivering the environmental goal of stabilising emissions. They argue it would be more effective to expend effort on making incremental progress based on what we know rather than trying to get international agreement on the timetables and targets, which is proving so challenging.

Ciao, Catherine

==Thursday, July 16==
For example, there is the oft-told story about Larry Shepp, a famous mathematician at Rutgers University. Dr. Shepp, when told that a piece of work he thought was his discovery actually duplicated another mathematician's breakthrough, replied: "Yes, but when I discovered it, it stayed discovered."

From "Pity the Scientist Who Discovers the Discovered"
NY Times February 5, 2006

James Balog - Arctic photography
http://www.extremeicesurvey.org/

[[jp]]Catherine and I had an interesting discussion on Tuesday regarding the bubble cycle of capitalism, which can be seen as a negative thing in many cases because it leads to wealth centralization and then disintegration. Still, bubbles do serve a functional purpose in society. Imagine the internet infrastructure without the dot-com bubble or look around at the housing infrastructure left after the most recent boom.

This article is from Rolling Stone, July 13th so it's already ages old for some of you. Still, it's provocative to think that there might be a market "solution" or influence towards accelerating green adoption.
[http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/29127316/the_great_american_bubble_machine/print The Great American Bubble Machine by Matt Tiabbi]

==Friday, July 17==

[http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jul/13/manchester-report-climate-change1 The Manchester Report: 20 ideas for solving the climate crisis] - The solutions picked by the Guardian and Manchester International Festival's expert panel as the most promising for tackling global warming

[http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204771304574181522575503150.html It’s Time to Cool the Planet] - A well reasoned piece on the need to consider geoengineering.

==Saturday, July 18==

You might be interested in the interview I had with Andy Revkin for Worldchanging.com that can be found [http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/005455.html here]. Make sure to listen to his song "Liberated Carbon"

For those looking to increase their media / communications skills, the [http://leopoldleadership.stanford.edu/ Leopold Leadership Program] at the Woods Institute for the Environment "advances environmental decision-making by providing academic researchers with the skills and connections needed to be effective leaders and communicators".

==Sunday, July 19==

==Monday, July 20==

==Tuesday, July 21==

==Wednesday, July 22==

==Thursday, July 23==

==Friday, July 24==

==Saturday, July 25==

Summer School on Global Sustainability-Blog

2009-07-18T20:45:28Z

Davidzaks: /* Saturday, July 18 */

{{Summer School on Global Sustainability}}

Post any observations, reactions, insights, links to interesting material, or open questions here. This is an informal page, so use it as you wish.

==Sunday, July 12==

==Monday, July 13==

Hi all,

Here are a few links to information on Ecological Economics and the work of Herman Daly (founder of the field). These themes came up today in group conversation, and I thought the following articles might be useful as additional background as we all ponder what sustainability might look like.

[http://growthmadness.org/2007/09/03/can-we-grow-our-way-to-an-environmentally-sustainable-world/ Can we grow our way to an environmentally sustainable world?]

[http://www.grist.org/article/bank The economic heresy of Herman Daly]

[http://www.eoearth.org/article/Herman_Daly_Festschrift~_Toward_a_sustainable_and_desirable_future~_a_30_year_collaboration_with_Herman_Daly Herman Daly Festschrift: Toward a sustainable and desirable future: a 30 year collaboration with Herman Daly]

And if you feel like getting political about it, there is always the [http://www.steadystate.org/ Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy (CASSE).]

Enjoy!

-Jenny

Hi All
FYI - there are a number of cool videos on ecological economics at the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics site: [http://www.uvm.edu/giee/?Page=videos.html&defaultmenu.html]
There is a free online course in ecological economics as well: [http://metacourses.org/ecologicaleconomics/]
They also have a listing of PDF's of articles that Gund fellows have contributed to that should be free to download: [http://www.uvm.edu/giee/?Page=publications.html&default_menu.html]
If you have questions about the Institute, its players or Ecological Economics, see Samir or Anthony - we are both based there.
Cheers
Anthony

==Tuesday, July 14==

==Wednesday, July 15==
Here are a couple of papers that I thought people might find interesting reading...

[http://www.sd-commission.org.uk/pages/redefining-prosperity.html Prosperity Without Growth?]
This a report by Professor Tim Jackson (my PhD supervisor) proposes twelve steps towards a sustainable economy and argues for a redefinition of "prosperity" in line with evidence about what contributes to people’s wellbeing.

[http://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/NR/rdonlyres/6E0B4E96-3ECA-427B-8D86-1C241D04AACC/0/climatepolicybackoncourse.pdf How to Get Climate Policy Back on Course]
The authors of this paper suggest a direct approach be taken to the decarbonization of the global energy system rather than the indirect approach of creating an international carbon market. Existing & known policy mechanisms should be used rather than setting up a carbon market that has great uncertainty for delivering the environmental goal of stabilising emissions. They argue it would be more effective to expend effort on making incremental progress based on what we know rather than trying to get international agreement on the timetables and targets, which is proving so challenging.

Ciao, Catherine

==Thursday, July 16==
For example, there is the oft-told story about Larry Shepp, a famous mathematician at Rutgers University. Dr. Shepp, when told that a piece of work he thought was his discovery actually duplicated another mathematician's breakthrough, replied: "Yes, but when I discovered it, it stayed discovered."

From "Pity the Scientist Who Discovers the Discovered"
NY Times February 5, 2006

James Balog - Arctic photography
http://www.extremeicesurvey.org/

[[jp]]Catherine and I had an interesting discussion on Tuesday regarding the bubble cycle of capitalism, which can be seen as a negative thing in many cases because it leads to wealth centralization and then disintegration. Still, bubbles do serve a functional purpose in society. Imagine the internet infrastructure without the dot-com bubble or look around at the housing infrastructure left after the most recent boom.

This article is from Rolling Stone, July 13th so it's already ages old for some of you. Still, it's provocative to think that there might be a market "solution" or influence towards accelerating green adoption.
[http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/29127316/the_great_american_bubble_machine/print The Great American Bubble Machine by Matt Tiabbi]

==Friday, July 17==

[http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jul/13/manchester-report-climate-change1 The Manchester Report: 20 ideas for solving the climate crisis] - The solutions picked by the Guardian and Manchester International Festival's expert panel as the most promising for tackling global warming

[http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204771304574181522575503150.html It’s Time to Cool the Planet] - A well reasoned piece on the need to consider geoengineering.

==Saturday, July 18==

You might be interested in the interview I had with Andy Revkin for Worldchanging.com that can be found [http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/005455.html here]. Make sure to listen to his song "Liberated Carbon"

For those looking to increase their media / communications training, the [http://leopoldleadership.stanford.edu/ Leopold Leadership Program] at the Woods Institute for the Environment "advances environmental decision-making by providing academic researchers with the skills and connections needed to be effective leaders and communicators".

==Sunday, July 19==

==Monday, July 20==

==Tuesday, July 21==

==Wednesday, July 22==

==Thursday, July 23==

==Friday, July 24==

==Saturday, July 25==

Summer School on Global Sustainability-Working Group Wiki Page

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