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2010 Global Sustainability Summer School-Op-Ed

2010-08-02T14:29:46Z

Edlazarus: /* Drafts */

{{GSSS 2010}}

This page is intended for op-ed topics and discussion.

Jackman's Idea: Every year big box stores are built on acres of formerly fertile farm land to both the detriment and benefit of small communities. Every year many of those box stores fail or relocate, primarily for expansion. With the failure or departure of these store, we are left with rural "big box-store blight" - huge, unusable buildings and acres of paved, impermeable surfaces that mar the landscape. Upon abandoning retail locations, I think that box store retailers such as Walmart, Whole Foods, Kmart, Krogers, and many others have an obligation to restore the landscape to its original condition or renovate the buildings and parking lots to accommodate other (non-box store) uses. In an op-ed I would like to motivate the necessity for this policy as well as provide suggestions as to how this might be achieved. I expect that these methods will provide disincentives for some box-stores to locate in areas with this requirement, but this is not the objective. Rather, the objectives are to 1) motivate box-stores to locate carefully, 2) discourage them from moving for the purposes of expansion, and 3) maintain the environmental, social, and community value of the landscape. Perhaps not exactly to the point, but an interesting Ted video about [http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/ellen_dunham_jones_retrofitting_suburbia.html reclaiming and retrofitting suburbia]. 

Way to go Duke... [http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/duke_community/oped.html some helpful tips for writing and getting your op-ed published ]
 
 
Strumsky's Idea: Education and Irrationality: The solution offered for many major social problems is that we can educate our way out of them. This strikes me about as viable as being able to invent our way out of problems. There are too many examples of people having a clear, well informed understanding of a problem and they do not dispute the facts or data, yet choosing the irrational option (or to use game theory, selecting non-dominant strategies). The examples are everywhere; obesity is well understood, the facts and consequences for people’s health is not in dispute, yet obesity and its health consequences are on the rise - not just in the US, but globally. We can go on and on, alcoholism, drinking and driving, smoking, positions against healthcare reform by the individuals who are ill and uninsured. If we can not educate our way out of problems what do we do? We need another option.
 
 

[[M. K. Dorsey's Op-Ed Ideas, Some Old Ones & Pithy Strategic Banter]]

==Drafts==

[[Op/Ed Draft: "Owning coastal property might put you on the rocks" - Eli Lazarus]]
 
Op/Ed Published: Eli in the [[http://www.pressherald.com/opinion/bad-decisions-about-shorefront-property-are-no-longer-excusable_2010-07-30.html/ Portland Press Herald]] (Portland, Maine), 30 July 2010
 
 
[[Media:Op_ed_ANITA_CARRASCO.doc‎| Op/Ed Draft: "A Tale of Violence" - Anita Carrasco]]
 
 
[[Media:OpEd_jackman_v1.doc‎| Op/Ed Draft: "Big Box Store Slight" - Dana Jackman]]
 
 
[[Media:Gallemoreoped.doc| Op/Ed Draft: "Fearing Fear Itself" - Caleb Gallemore]]
 
 
[[Media:Oped-Hongtao_Yi.doc| Op/Ed Draft: "Rare Earth Supply Faces Dramatic Decrease: Disaster or Opportunity?" - Hongtao Yi]]
 
 
[[Op/Ed Draft: "Bike Lanes or BP?" - John Baker (Note: I could use help with a better title. Suggestions?]]
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[[Media:Live learn and thrive.doc| Op/Ed Draft: "Live, Learn, and Thrive" - Yao Yin]]
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[[Media:The_False_Promises_of_Shale_Gas.pdf| Op/Ed Draft: "The False Promises of Shale Gas" - Joe Cresko]]
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[[Let the river in! - Dana Coelho]]
 
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[[Op/Ed Draft: Strong stands against natural gas drilling in PA - Maria Dillard]]
 
 
[[Sweden should aim for zero carbon as quickly as possible - David Bryngelsson]]
 
 
[[OpEd Draft: Further criticism of the airport expansion in the light of the coming taxation of airline tickets - Therese Hertel]]
 
 
[[Media:OpEd_Veronika_AviationLevy.doc‎| OpEd Draft: "Why not only Mr Schäuble should by happy about the aviation levy" - Veronika Huber]]
 
 
[[Op/Ed Draft: "Time is right for reform of national accounts" - Stephen Posner]]
 
 
[[Media:Christian op ed.doc‎|Op/Ed Draft: "Biofuels - size matters" - Christian Casillas]]
 
 
[[Op/Ed Draft: "Wait a minute electric car. We're making real progress here." - Hitesh Soneji]]
 
 
[[Op/Ed Draft: "Massachusetts Leading the Way in the Energy Revolution?" - Gabe Chan]]
 
 
[[Media:SupportingGenerationE.doc‎| Op/Ed Draft: "Supporting Generation "E"" - Shirley Papuga]]
 
 
[[Media:CO2MKtsv4.doc| Op/Ed Draft "Carbon Markets Need Oversight"-version 4.0 - M. K. Dorsey]]
 
 
[[Media:Vermont_Yankee_closure_op-ed.doc| Op/Ed Draft "Call to Action for New England’s Future Energy Direction" - A. M. James]]

Eli Lazarus

2010-07-25T17:56:20Z

Edlazarus:

[[Image:EDL_GSSS10.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Me, washing dishes.]]

In my research I apply complexity-based analytical methods to questions regarding physical landscape change and coupled natural and human systems—illuminating feedbacks between interconnected regimes, but also characterizing their dynamics and the ranges of spatial and temporal scales over which they operate. I employ geospatial data, numerical modeling, and field observations to unpack linkages between Earth-surface processes and human decisions.

I recently completed a postdoctoral year in the Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences at Duke University (where I earned my Ph.D., specializing in geomorphology and coastal dynamics); my postdoctoral work involves a computational model that explores how beach change and coastal economics co-evolve in response to climate change and to different coastal management regimes.

I currently live in Portland, Maine, where I am a visiting scientist at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute. I enjoy creative cooking with whatever is at hand, small-scale farming, body surfing, and long-distance running.

My contact information: edlazarus [at] gmail dot com.

Furthermore -- if anyone's in the Maine vicinity, please let me know. As long as I'm here, GSSS10 folks always have a place in Portland.

Eli Lazarus

2010-07-25T17:55:51Z

Edlazarus:

2010 Global Sustainability Summer School-Op-Ed

2010-07-21T05:53:28Z

Edlazarus:

Op/Ed Draft: "Owning coastal property might put you on the rocks" - Eli Lazarus

2010-07-21T05:52:53Z

Edlazarus:

For the ''Portland Press Herald'' (Portland, Maine): ~500 words

'''Opinion: Owning coastal property might put you on the rocks'''

Despite countless examples of the risks inherent in owning ocean-front property, many coastal landowners still seem surprised when nature comes to collect.

This August, the Maine Public Broadcasting Network will rebroadcast a 2009 documentary video produced by the Maine Sea Grant entitled, "Building a Resilient Coast: Maine Confronts Climate Change." Between 2007–2008, the Maine Sea Grant, in cooperation with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, the Center for Research and Evaluation, and the Maine Coastal Program, surveyed and interviewed nearly 600 coastal property owners and town officials in southern and midcoast Maine. In the technical report on the project, property owners describe different measures they took to limit destruction from shoreline erosion: raising seawalls; armoring with rocks; digging diversion ditches; trucking in sand to replenish overwashed dunes. Because waves and storms are an inevitable part of living on the Maine coast, those stabilization structures will always require maintenance. That's a fact of coastal ownership as inescapable as animal chores on a working farm—the work is part of the deliberate choice to live there.

But a number of the respondents to the Maine Sea Grant survey feel the burden of maintaining their sea-sprayed real-estate is too much. Rather than accept low-interest loans for damage repair, most property owners want direct financial grants or want the government to pay—even though passing such responsibility for damage only passes the buck to their inland neighbors. The owners say that permit restrictions on repairing storm damage are unfair, and the overwhelming majority feel that state and federal governments are impinging on their property rights. The majority don't trust the risk-awareness information provided by local, state, or federal agencies. They dismiss information from the University of Maine and Maine Geological Survey as having an "agenda," and deem the Department of Environmental Protection and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers untrustworthy.

If not scientists, whom would the owners likely consult to learn what they could or couldn't do with their waterfront property? Who in this cast of players doesn't have an agenda? "Realtors," according to the technical report, topped the respondents' list.

This kind of willful naïveté about the real cost of owning coastal property is disappointing, and doesn't bring towns, states, or the federal government any closer to finding equitable solutions to the problems driven by permanent development along dynamic shorelines. Resilience of Maine's coastal communities will come with adaptation to, and allowance of, natural variability—not from staunch refusal to admit our personal responsibility for the private land we occupy. Straight answers about the potential impacts of coastal change are available and accessible, even if they aren't the answers many coastal landowners want to hear. Buy an ocean-front lot, and the hazards of erosion, storm vulnerability, and property loss are part of the deal. Nature doesn't care who pays for damages or how high the assessment runs—but your neighbors do.

'''''About the Author:''''' ''Eli Lazarus is a coastal geologist and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Maine.''

[[2010_Global_Sustainability_Summer_School-Op-Ed]]

Op/Ed Draft: "Owning coastal property might put you on the rocks" - Eli Lazarus

2010-07-21T05:50:15Z

Edlazarus: New page: For the ''Portland Press Herald'' (Portland, Maine): ~500 words '''Opinion: Owning coastal property might put you on the rocks''' Despite countless examples of the risks inherent in owni...

2010 Global Sustainability Summer School-Blog

2010-07-18T07:19:22Z

Edlazarus: /* Saturday July 17 */

{{GSSS 2010}}

Please feel free to use this page to share thoughts about lectures and activities, and share relevant links with the group.

==Monday July 12==
Carolina De la Rosa Tincopa 
Shirley Papuga 
Anita Carrasco 

==Tuesday July 13==
Deva Seetharam 
Joseph Burger 
Caleb Gallemore 

Thinking about Doyne's question regarding whether the earth is our garden or a wilderness seems to me to raise questions about the role of anthropocentric thinking in thinking about sustainability. I remember that someone floated the question of whether or not we can think of sustainability without humans. Both these questions, I think, highlight a difficult intellectual challenge we face in thinking about sustainability. On the one hand, we are - usually explicitly - involved in a normative exercise. When we talk about sustainability, we at the very least imply a vague notion of a state or set of states worthy of being sustained. In almost all cases (except perhaps for some forms of deep ecology), one property of these states is the continued existence of at least some humans at some tolerable - or, preferably, enjoyable - standard of living. The interesting problem we face is this: in order to keep humans around, we are for the most part agreed that leverage must be brought to bear on the economic and social systems we have created, as well as the environmental damages we have already perpetrated. This means we must think of humans as somehow free to choose and change, even if only within limited boundaries and only some of the time. Humans, in other words, are our leverage point onto the world whose fate concerns us. At the same time, we have to think of the ways in which humans are embedded within that world and subject to pressures from social structures and natural feedbacks of our collective making. It seems to me that several of the debate questions actually center around this question of social possibility - we simply do not know what we ourselves may or may not be capable of changing about our actions and the systems that produce and sustain us.

If the world is our garden, then this seems to suggest that we are relatively autonomous from it and that we can meaningfully look on it and make choices about what its properties should be. But it may in fact be that the world is a wilderness, despite that humans have touched it everywhere, such that some geographers have started calling our age the "anthropocene." Usually we think of the wilderness as something that is untouched or pristine or unaffected by "civilization," however defined. This way of thinking, actually, is closely aligned with the conception of the garden. Again it is a view of a world untouched by humans to which humans somehow enter from the outside, a view common in much of the social sciences even at present. Of course, we know that this is not the case. Humans grow from the inside of the wilderness, just like weeds or badgers or elephants. Like all species, our advent in the wilderness has come to change it - in our case in more substantial ways than most - but we remain firmly a part of the wilderness.

All this may seem a little ambling. What I mean to say is this: we are a part of wilderness, and thinking of the social as somehow a strictly different beast can be deceiving. It can give us a sense that we have too much choice and too much power. On the other hand it can give us a sense that wilderness has too little of these things. We continue to discover both positive and negative feedbacks to our actions in the world at large, and we continue to find that the world is more dynamic and flexible than we imagined. Thinking of the interplay between our social structures, our choices, and the responses of the rest of the wilderness requires that we relax habits of thought in which we place ourselves as something acting on nature from the outside, which, in practice, most sustainability work already does. The trick is to get the social sciences to do it, as well.

==Wednesday July 14==
David Bryngelsson 
Veronika Huber 

The day started out with an instructive and helpful session with Ann Kinzig. Besides making me realize that I have found a satisfying definition of sustainability for myself yet, the discussions during her lecture left me with a few insights that I kept pondering about.

One strong point Ann made was that “information is power”. She argued that an important part of making sustainability a more meaningful concept is to develop the right measurement indices. There are many caveats to respect when trying to come up with quantitative indices. Certainly, there are limits to assigning monetary values. (How much is the spectacular sunset worth that made the mountains behind Santa Fe gloom in all shades of red and yellow tonight). At the same time, as Ann pointed out, many important decisions are taken by explicitly or implicitly assigning values. Our world works based on all sorts of incomplete and insufficient indices. Achieving sustainability (and I am sticking for now with my gut feeling of what that means) would require much more than ‘just’ implementing new indices that reflect changes in natural and social capital overlooked so far. Yet, I would argue it is a necessary condition.

Whenever you open up a newspaper, whenever you watch the news, you read and hear about “growth”. Our societies are addicted to economic growth. We cheer when the prospects of growth look great; we fall into depression when the growth forecasts are reduced by a few decimal points. GDP is – I would say – the most powerful index that has ever been developed. Replacing it or at least complementing it with a more inclusive measure of wealth could have a great influence on how we steer our planet into the future.

A second much more technical comment I would like to make concerns the lifetime of CO2 in the atmosphere. We were discussing today with some people whether its atmospheric lifetime was really thousands of years – as Dennis mentioned at some point. Here is a link to a recent paper by David Archer that is extremely helpful in this regard: http://geosci.uchicago.edu/~archer/reprints/archer.2009.ann_rev_tail.pdf.

Gina La Cerva 

==Thursday July 15==
Deborah Strumsky 
Therese Hertel 

Today we changed our lecture-location for the first time. We had all day at the Santa Fe Institute. to be continued :)

Joe Cresko 

==Friday July 16==
Janeane Harwell 
Mary Turnipseed 

==Saturday July 17==
 
[[Eli Lazarus]]: It's Saturday night at St. John's, and late; outside my room facing the Upper Dorms quad, a Breadloaf Writing Workshop party is bumping and raucous. Our GSSS10 crew is just back from an epic day on the road between Santa Fe and Taos -- I'm compelled to hold what pops and flashes of the last 12 hours I can before I sack out. The Taos itinerary was eclectic and spirited -- a guided tour of [http://earthship.com/ Earthships Biotecture], a vertiginous view into the Rio Grande Gorge, and, courtesy of Doyne Farmer, a brief stop at "the best [http://www.michaelskitchen.com/index.php doughnut shop] in northern New Mexico." But for me, in the company of my summer-school research group, the drive itself brought a lovely and unexpected catalysis, a subtle condensing of something inspired and formative.

(And that's atop a week of the most intellectual discussion, concentration, and provocation I've ever experienced.)

Northbound, about 30 minutes outside of Santa Fe, we cracked into a few big-picture ideas, periodically interrupting each other to point beyond the highway -- talus slopes, tourist-ballasted river rafts, mesa walls of dipping strata, pine-thick mountain flanks unraveling into valley chaparral. (All of it fodder for thinking about complex, dynamic relationships between landscapes and land-use transitions.) Southbound, we took the high road from Taos and this time shimmed our stories between exclamations about bison, dust devils, pickup-truck dogs, cloud breaks, and the rain-blued mountains to the west. By the time Highway 84 widened into the Santa Fe fringe, excitement about our coming collaboration was palpable. We'd already seen our metaphor from the ridge -- all the distance we'll soon be traveling, the verdant expanse of possibilities there to explore. 

==Sunday July 18==

==Monday July 19==
Hitesh Soneji 
Dana Coelho 
Hongtao Yi 

==Tuesday July 20==
Lawrence Lin 
Erasmus Owusu 
Amanda James 

==Wednesday July 21==
John Robert Baker 
Michael Dorsey 
Christian Casillas 

==Thursday July 22==
Cecilia Roa-Garcia 
Stephen Posner 
John Paul Gonzales 

==Friday July 23==

2010 Global Sustainability Summer School-Blog

2010-07-18T05:05:20Z

Edlazarus: /* Friday July 16 */

{{GSSS 2010}}

Please feel free to use this page to share thoughts about lectures and activities, and share relevant links with the group.

==Monday July 12==
Carolina De la Rosa Tincopa 
Shirley Papuga 
Anita Carrasco 

==Tuesday July 13==
Deva Seetharam 
Joseph Burger 
Caleb Gallemore 

Thinking about Doyne's question regarding whether the earth is our garden or a wilderness seems to me to raise questions about the role of anthropocentric thinking in thinking about sustainability. I remember that someone floated the question of whether or not we can think of sustainability without humans. Both these questions, I think, highlight a difficult intellectual challenge we face in thinking about sustainability. On the one hand, we are - usually explicitly - involved in a normative exercise. When we talk about sustainability, we at the very least imply a vague notion of a state or set of states worthy of being sustained. In almost all cases (except perhaps for some forms of deep ecology), one property of these states is the continued existence of at least some humans at some tolerable - or, preferably, enjoyable - standard of living. The interesting problem we face is this: in order to keep humans around, we are for the most part agreed that leverage must be brought to bear on the economic and social systems we have created, as well as the environmental damages we have already perpetrated. This means we must think of humans as somehow free to choose and change, even if only within limited boundaries and only some of the time. Humans, in other words, are our leverage point onto the world whose fate concerns us. At the same time, we have to think of the ways in which humans are embedded within that world and subject to pressures from social structures and natural feedbacks of our collective making. It seems to me that several of the debate questions actually center around this question of social possibility - we simply do not know what we ourselves may or may not be capable of changing about our actions and the systems that produce and sustain us.

If the world is our garden, then this seems to suggest that we are relatively autonomous from it and that we can meaningfully look on it and make choices about what its properties should be. But it may in fact be that the world is a wilderness, despite that humans have touched it everywhere, such that some geographers have started calling our age the "anthropocene." Usually we think of the wilderness as something that is untouched or pristine or unaffected by "civilization," however defined. This way of thinking, actually, is closely aligned with the conception of the garden. Again it is a view of a world untouched by humans to which humans somehow enter from the outside, a view common in much of the social sciences even at present. Of course, we know that this is not the case. Humans grow from the inside of the wilderness, just like weeds or badgers or elephants. Like all species, our advent in the wilderness has come to change it - in our case in more substantial ways than most - but we remain firmly a part of the wilderness.

All this may seem a little ambling. What I mean to say is this: we are a part of wilderness, and thinking of the social as somehow a strictly different beast can be deceiving. It can give us a sense that we have too much choice and too much power. On the other hand it can give us a sense that wilderness has too little of these things. We continue to discover both positive and negative feedbacks to our actions in the world at large, and we continue to find that the world is more dynamic and flexible than we imagined. Thinking of the interplay between our social structures, our choices, and the responses of the rest of the wilderness requires that we relax habits of thought in which we place ourselves as something acting on nature from the outside, which, in practice, most sustainability work already does. The trick is to get the social sciences to do it, as well.

==Wednesday July 14==
David Bryngelsson 
Veronika Huber 

The day started out with an instructive and helpful session with Ann Kinzig. Besides making me realize that I have found a satisfying definition of sustainability for myself yet, the discussions during her lecture left me with a few insights that I kept pondering about.

One strong point Ann made was that “information is power”. She argued that an important part of making sustainability a more meaningful concept is to develop the right measurement indices. There are many caveats to respect when trying to come up with quantitative indices. Certainly, there are limits to assigning monetary values. (How much is the spectacular sunset worth that made the mountains behind Santa Fe gloom in all shades of red and yellow tonight). At the same time, as Ann pointed out, many important decisions are taken by explicitly or implicitly assigning values. Our world works based on all sorts of incomplete and insufficient indices. Achieving sustainability (and I am sticking for now with my gut feeling of what that means) would require much more than ‘just’ implementing new indices that reflect changes in natural and social capital overlooked so far. Yet, I would argue it is a necessary condition.

Whenever you open up a newspaper, whenever you watch the news, you read and hear about “growth”. Our societies are addicted to economic growth. We cheer when the prospects of growth look great; we fall into depression when the growth forecasts are reduced by a few decimal points. GDP is – I would say – the most powerful index that has ever been developed. Replacing it or at least complementing it with a more inclusive measure of wealth could have a great influence on how we steer our planet into the future.

A second much more technical comment I would like to make concerns the lifetime of CO2 in the atmosphere. We were discussing today with some people whether its atmospheric lifetime was really thousands of years – as Dennis mentioned at some point. Here is a link to a recent paper by David Archer that is extremely helpful in this regard: http://geosci.uchicago.edu/~archer/reprints/archer.2009.ann_rev_tail.pdf.

Gina La Cerva 

==Thursday July 15==
Deborah Strumsky 
Therese Hertel 

Today we changed our lecture-location for the first time. We had all day at the Santa Fe Institute. to be continued :)

Joe Cresko 

==Friday July 16==
Janeane Harwell 
Mary Turnipseed 

==Saturday July 17==

==Sunday July 18==

==Monday July 19==
Hitesh Soneji 
Dana Coelho 
Hongtao Yi 

==Tuesday July 20==
Lawrence Lin 
Erasmus Owusu 
Amanda James 

==Wednesday July 21==
John Robert Baker 
Michael Dorsey 
Christian Casillas 

==Thursday July 22==
Cecilia Roa-Garcia 
Stephen Posner 
John Paul Gonzales 

==Friday July 23==

2010 Global Sustainability Summer School-After Hours

2010-07-15T03:22:52Z

Edlazarus: /* Taos Field Trip */

{{GSSS 2010}}

==Taos Field Trip==
We've arranged a tour of an [http://earthship.com/ Earthship] in Taos on Saturday.

Please sign up here if you are interested in going.

1.Shirley 
2.Anita 
3.Tess 
4.Amanda 
5.Veronika 
6.Mary 
7.Dana 
8.Hitesh 
9.John 
10.Lawrence 
11.Steve 
12. David 
13. Caleb 
14.Dana Jackman 
15.Tao 
16.Eli 
17. 
18. 
19. 
20. 
21. 
22. 
23. 
24. 
25. 
26. 
27. 
28. 
29. 
30. 

==Synergia Ranch==
[http://www.synergiaranch.com/ Synergia Ranch] has invited us to dinner and a tour of their operations on Thursday the 15th (after the Biosphere Colloquium). Please sign up here so that we have an idea of who's going.

John Paul's Camry (4 seats) 
1.JP 
2.Hitesh 
3.Stevie P. 
4.Robbie 

Doynemobile (2 seats) 
1.Doyne Farmer 
2.M. K. Dorsey

Dana's Car (4 seats) 
1.Dana C. 
2.Janeane 
3.Joe Cresko 
4.Tess 

George Johnson 
1. Yao 
2. Dana Jackman 
3 Shirley Papuga 
4. Cecilia Roa-Garcia 
5. Veronika

Debbie's Car 
1.David B 
2.Gabe C. 
3.Caleb G. 

Jim Crutchfield 
1.Jim Crutchfield 
2.Lawrence 
3.Eli Lazarus 
4.Deva 

Gina LaCerva 
1. Maria Dillard 
2. Carolina 
3. Anita 
4. Christian 

Donatella's Car 
1.Tao 
2.Amanda 
3.Mary T. 

Donatella's Second 
1.John B. 
2. 

Unassigned:

Anita 

==Soylent Green Showing!==

Doyne Farmer would like to have a showing of Soylent Green at his house. Please sign up here and JP will forward you more info. Depending on how many we have sign up, we'll assess transportation options.

John Paul's Car (4 seats) 
1.John Paul 
2.Mary Turnipseed 
3. 
4. 

1.[[John Paul]] 
2.[[Yao Yin]] 
3.[[Caleb Gallemore]] 
4.[[Hitesh Soneji]] 
5.[[Mary Turnipseed]] 
6.[[Eli Lazarus]] 
7.[[Veronika Huber]] 
8. Tess 
9.
10. [[Dana Coelho]] 
11. Joe Cresko 
12. Gabe Chan 
13. Lawrence Lin 
14. Shirley Papuga 
15. [[Hongtao Yi]] 
16. M.K. Dorsey 
17. Cecilia Roa-Garcia 
18. Amanda James 
19. [[David Bryngelsson]] 

==Bandelier Field Trip==

Would anybody be interested in taking a field trip to [http://www.nps.gov/band/index.htm Bandelier National Monument] for a hike? I'd like to go on Sunday July 18. We'll leave from St. John's at about 11:00 and hike for a few hours, then possibly take a trip up to the [http://www.vallescaldera.gov Valles Caldera] and Jemez Springs.

Please sign up if you're interested.

Sign Up
1.John Paul 
2.Yao 
3.Caleb Gallemore 
4.Gabe Chan 
5.[[Hitesh Soneji]] 
6.Lisa Curran 
7.[[Dana Coelho]] - I would love a ride but can also drive if the need arises! 
8. Joe Cresko 
9. Lawrence Lin 
10. Amanda James 
11. Hongtao Yi 
12. Tess 
14. [[Michael Dorsey]] 
15. Cecilia Roa-Garcia 

== Farmers Markets ==

The [http://www.santafefarmersmarket.com/ Santa Fe Farmers' Market] is Open Every Tuesday and Saturday in the Santa Fe Railyard! 7am-Noon. The Market is also open Thursday nights from 3-7 pm.

== Open Hours Gym ==

SAC Hours from May 31 – August 14 are:

Monday 6a-7p
Tuesday 6a-8p
Wednesday 6a-8p
Thursday 6a-7p
Friday 6a-7p
Saturday 10a-5p
Sunday CLOSED

There will be open volleyball on Mondays, 4:30-6:30p and open basketball on Thursdays from 4:30-6:30p.

2010 Global Sustainability Summer School-After Hours

2010-07-14T13:19:04Z

Edlazarus: /* Synergia Ranch */

{{GSSS 2010}}

==Synergia Ranch==
[http://www.synergiaranch.com/ Synergia Ranch] has invited us to dinner and a tour of their operations on Thursday the 15th (after the Biosphere Colloquium). Please sign up here so that we have an idea of who's going.

John Paul's Camry (4 seats) 
1.JP 
2.Hitesh 
3.Stevie P. 
4.Robbie 

Doynemobile (2 seats) 
1.Doyne Farmer 
2.M. K. Dorsey

Dana's Car (4 seats) 
1.Dana C. 
2.Janeane 
3.Joe Cresko 
4.Tess 

George Johnson 
1. Yao 
2. Dana Jackman 
3 Shirley Papuga 
4 
5 

Jim Crutchfield 
1.Jim Crutchfield 
2.Lawrence 
3.Eli Lazarus 
4. 

Gina LaCerva 
1 
2 
3 
4 

==Soylent Green Showing!==

Doyne Farmer would like to have a showing of Soylent Green at his house. Please sign up here and JP will forward you more info. Depending on how many we have sign up, we'll assess transportation options.

1.[[John Paul]] 
2.[[Yao Yin]] 
3.[[Caleb Gallemore]] 
4.[[Hitesh Soneji]] 
5.[[Mary Turnipseed]] 
6.[[Eli Lazarus]] 
7.[[Veronika Huber]] 
8. Tess 
9. Steve 
10. [[Dana Coelho]] 
11. Joe Cresko 
12. Gabe Chan 
13. Lawrence Lin 
14. Shirley Papuga 
15. Amanda James 
16.[[Hongtao Yi]] 
17. M.K. Dorsey

==Bandelier Field Trip==

Would anybody be interested in taking a field trip to [http://www.nps.gov/band/index.htm Bandelier National Monument] for a hike? I'd like to go on Sunday July 18. We'll leave from St. John's at about 11:00 and hike for a few hours, then possibly take a trip up to the [http://www.vallescaldera.gov Valles Caldera] and Jemez Springs.

Please sign up if you're interested.

Sign Up
1.John Paul 
2.Yao 
3.Caleb Gallemore 
4.Gabe Chan 
5.[[Hitesh Soneji]] 
6.Lisa Curran 
7.[[Dana Coelho]] - I would love a ride but can also drive if the need arises! 
8. Joe Cresko 
9. Lawrence Lin 
10. Amanda James 
11. Hongtao Yi 
12. Tess 
14. [[Michael Dorsey]] 

== Farmers Markets ==

The [http://www.santafefarmersmarket.com/ Santa Fe Farmers' Market] is Open Every Tuesday and Saturday in the Santa Fe Railyard! 7am-Noon.

== Open Hours Gym ==

SAC Hours from May 31 – August 14 are:

Monday 6a-7p
Tuesday 6a-8p
Wednesday 6a-8p
Thursday 6a-7p
Friday 6a-7p
Saturday 10a-5p
Sunday CLOSED

There will be open volleyball on Mondays, 4:30-6:30p and open basketball on Thursdays from 4:30-6:30p.

2010 Global Sustainability Summer School-After Hours

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2010 Global Sustainability Summer School-After Hours

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Eli Lazarus

2010-06-02T19:04:15Z

Edlazarus:

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Edlazarus: Pic for SFI GSSS10 bio page.

Pic for SFI GSSS10 bio page.

Eli Lazarus

2010-06-02T18:45:08Z

Edlazarus: New page: In my research I apply complexity-based analytical methods to questions regarding physical landscape change and coupled natural and human systems—illuminating feedbacks between interconn...

In my research I apply complexity-based analytical methods to questions regarding physical landscape change and coupled natural and human systems—illuminating feedbacks between interconnected regimes, but also characterizing their dynamics and the ranges of spatial and temporal scales over which they operate. I employ geospatial data, numerical modeling, and field observations to unpack linkages between Earth-surface processes and human decisions.

I recently completed a postdoctoral year in the Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences at Duke University (where I earned my Ph.D., specializing in geomorphology and coastal dynamics); my postdoctoral work involves a computational model that explores how beach change and coastal economics co-evolve in response to climate change and to different coastal management regimes.

I currently live in Portland, Maine, where I am a visiting scientist at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute. I very much enjoy creative cooking with whatever is at hand, small-scale farming, body surfing, and long-distance running.