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Op/Ed Draft: "Wait a minute electric car. We're making real progress here.

2010-07-23T04:02:02Z

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Op/Ed Draft: "Wait a minute electric car. We're making real progress here." - Hitesh Soneji

2010-07-23T04:01:31Z

Hsoneji: New page: Wait a minute electric car. We’re making real progress here. - Hitesh Soneji What happens when the electric vehicle hits the ground running? Will we drop our livable communities strateg...

Wait a minute electric car. We’re making real progress here. - Hitesh Soneji

What happens when the electric vehicle hits the ground running? Will we drop our livable communities strategies and ride our lithium-ion horses into the sprawling sunset?

Growing concern over climate change has provided a crucial boost to the sustainable and livable communities movement. Around the nation, more people are walking, cycling, and taking public transit than ever before (ref). Local governments are encouraging this mobility shift by encouraging transit oriented development, live-work neighborhoods, and expanding the reach of their transit networks. Some municipalities have even had the foresight to envision reduced automobile dependency (ref).

Enthusiasm for the electric vehicle could put a damper on real progress. It would result in a tremendous wasted opportunity to revive the vibrancy and character of Main Street. The land of chains and sprawl has stretched our existence in time and space, weakening localized social relations. Envision instead the rejuvenation and creation of thousands of new Main Streets across the nation. These communities promise a richer living experience, increased social well-being, and improved health. Intelligently designed livable cities reduce pressure on near-by open space, parks, and farm land, providing recreational opportunities and natural habitat buffers so that flora and fauna can flourish. By the virtues embedded in their very structure, livable cities will politely ask us to live within more sustainable means while at the same-time increasing our well-being and happiness (ref?). Even the mythical car that runs on magic dust simply can't provide all that.

While I applaud efforts to electrify our automobile fleet, such a shift will put severe near-term strains on our nation’s electricity grid while only partially reducing green house gas emissions. Irrelevant of fuel choice, continued automobile dependency would perpetuate sprawl and deterioration of the quality of life within our cities. Reducing the need to drive is essential to improving livability, no matter the advances that technology might bring to the automobile. Let's take the opportunity that climate change has offered us to reinvigorate the American city so that it serves all our people, not the very traffic that chokes it.

2010 Global Sustainability Summer School-Op-Ed

2010-07-23T04:01:18Z

Hsoneji: /* 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]]
 
 
[[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: "Wait a minute electric car. We're making real progress here.

2010-07-23T04:00:05Z

2010 Global Sustainability Summer School-Op-Ed

2010-07-23T03:59:47Z

Hsoneji: /* Drafts */

Nuclear Energy GSSS 2010 Debate

2010-07-21T01:54:10Z

Hsoneji: /* Topic Brainstorm */

{{GSSS 2010}}

==Topic Brainstorm==

Resolved: Nuclear energy production should not be a part of the US energy supply.

*Format:
:Introduction - Moderator - 3 minutes
:Opening Arguments - 5 minutes
:First Rebuttals - 3 minutes
:Back and Forth - Max 1 minute per team
:At 25 Minute Mark....
::Closing Statements- 2 minutes
:Wrap Up - Moderator - 1 minute
:: Each round keeps the same A->B order decided by coin at the beginning of the debate

*Affirmative:

Critical readings & resources

--From [http://www.ieer.org/ The Institute for Energy and Environmental Research • IEER]

[http://www.ieer.org/carbonfree/CarbonFreeNuclearFree.pdf Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free: A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy]
 [WARNING: link is to full text, 257 pgs.] 

[http://www.ieer.org/reports/Renewable_electric_system-Makhijani2009.pdf The Technical and Economic Feasibility of a Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free Energy System in the United States, Arjun Makhijani. March 4, 2009]

[http://www.nature.com/climate/2008/0810/pdf/climate.2008.103.pdf Nuclear isn't necessary, from Nature Reports Climate Change]

--From [http://www.helencaldicott.com/index.htm Caldicott, H.]

[http://www.abc.net.au/environment/articles/2010/03/03/2835725.htm Nuclear energy: money can't buy love] by David Noonan, ABC (Aus), 3 March 2010]

--From Union of Concerned Scientists: A Resurgence of Nuclear Power Poses Significant Challenges
[http://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear_power/nuclear_power_and_global_warming/nuclear-resurgence.html]

--Natural Resources Defense Council: New Nuclear Power Plants Are Not a Solution for America's Energy Needs
[http://www.nrdc.org/nuclear/plants/contents.asp]

[[Media:ThermoLimits.pdf‎| Thermodynamic limitations to nuclear energy]]

*Negative:

Critical Readings and Resources:

[http://unfccc.int/files/meetings/application/pdf/unitedstatescphaccord_app.1.pdf US Pledge to Copenhagen Accord]

[http://sites.nationalacademies.org/Energy/Energy_043338 National Academy of Sciences: America's Energy Future]

[http://web.mit.edu/nuclearpower/ MIT's The Future of Nuclear Power]

[http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6TXN-4XGBG60-2&_user=56761&_coverDate=03%2F31%2F2010&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=1403052854&_rerunOrigin=google&_acct=C000059541&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=56761&md5=bf1816498a73a33710e3398d61127b17 Role of nuclear energy to a future society of shortage of energy resources and global warming]

[http://globalchange.mit.edu/files/document/MITJPSPGC_Reprint_10-3.pdf Potential climatic impacts and reliability of very large-scale wind farms]

[http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/liquid-fluoride-thorium-reactors Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors: An old idea in nuclear power gets reexamined]

[http://www.nei.org/filefolder/Infographic_-_Land_Needed_by_Wind_and_Solar.jpg Land Needed by Wind and Solar]

[http://www.agu.org/journals/gl/gl0613/2006GL026780/ Three Gorges Dam affects regional precipitation]

Nuclear Energy GSSS 2010 Debate

2010-07-20T22:21:24Z

Hsoneji: /* Topic Brainstorm */

{{GSSS 2010}}

==Topic Brainstorm==

Resolved: Nuclear energy production should not be a part of the US energy supply.

*Format:
:Introduction - Moderator - 3 minutes
:Opening Arguments - 5 minutes
:First Rebuttals - 3 minutes
:Second Rebuttals - 3 minutes
:Closing Statements- 2 minutes
:Wrap Up - Moderator - 1 minute
:: Each round keeps the same A->B order decided by coin at the beginning of the debate

*Affirmative:

Critical readings & resources

--From [http://www.ieer.org/ The Institute for Energy and Environmental Research • IEER]

[http://www.ieer.org/carbonfree/CarbonFreeNuclearFree.pdf Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free: A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy]
 [WARNING: link is to full text, 257 pgs.] 

[http://www.ieer.org/reports/Renewable_electric_system-Makhijani2009.pdf The Technical and Economic Feasibility of a Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free Energy System in the United States, Arjun Makhijani. March 4, 2009]

[http://www.nature.com/climate/2008/0810/pdf/climate.2008.103.pdf Nuclear isn't necessary, from Nature Reports Climate Change]

--From [http://www.helencaldicott.com/index.htm Caldicott, H.]

[http://www.abc.net.au/environment/articles/2010/03/03/2835725.htm Nuclear energy: money can't buy love] by David Noonan, ABC (Aus), 3 March 2010]

--From Union of Concerned Scientists: A Resurgence of Nuclear Power Poses Significant Challenges
[http://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear_power/nuclear_power_and_global_warming/nuclear-resurgence.html]

--Natural Resources Defense Council: New Nuclear Power Plants Are Not a Solution for America's Energy Needs
[http://www.nrdc.org/nuclear/plants/contents.asp]

[[Media:ThermoLimits.pdf‎| Thermodynamic limitations to nuclear energy]]

*Negative:

Critical Readings and Resources:

[http://unfccc.int/files/meetings/application/pdf/unitedstatescphaccord_app.1.pdf US Pledge to Copenhagen Accord]

[http://sites.nationalacademies.org/Energy/Energy_043338 National Academy of Sciences: America's Energy Future]

[http://web.mit.edu/nuclearpower/ MIT's The Future of Nuclear Power]

[http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6TXN-4XGBG60-2&_user=56761&_coverDate=03%2F31%2F2010&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=1403052854&_rerunOrigin=google&_acct=C000059541&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=56761&md5=bf1816498a73a33710e3398d61127b17 Role of nuclear energy to a future society of shortage of energy resources and global warming]

[http://globalchange.mit.edu/files/document/MITJPSPGC_Reprint_10-3.pdf Potential climatic impacts and reliability of very large-scale wind farms]

[http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/liquid-fluoride-thorium-reactors Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors: An old idea in nuclear power gets reexamined]

[http://www.nei.org/filefolder/Infographic_-_Land_Needed_by_Wind_and_Solar.jpg Land Needed by Wind and Solar]

[http://www.agu.org/journals/gl/gl0613/2006GL026780/ Three Gorges Dam affects regional precipitation]

2010 Global Sustainability Summer School-Projects & Working Groups

2010-07-20T16:49:41Z

Hsoneji: /* Projects */

{{GSSS 2010}}

== Projects ==
Land use transition - Dana, Eli, Jeananne, John, Veronica 
Brock, Kinzig, and Perrings. 2010. "Modeling the Economics of Biodiversity and Environmental Heterogeneity". Environmental Resource Economics [[http://www.public.asu.edu/~cperring/BKP,%20EARE%20%282009%29.pdf]] 
Walker, Holling, Carpenter, and Kinzig. 2004. "Resilience, Adaptability and Transformability in Social–ecological Systems". Ecology and Society. [[http://fiesta.bren.ucsb.edu/~gsd/resources/courses/Walker.pdf]] 
Anylogic Sample Models (Under "Online Demo Models")
[[http://www.xjtek.com/]]
 
 
[[AgentCollective|Agent Based Models of Collective Action]] - Caleb, Hitesh, Hongtao, Jackman, Shirley, and Tanya 
 

== Unfiltered Project Ideas ==

1. Interaction between levels of social hierarchy in policy making 
2. Policy networks collective action 
3. How to help communities to be more sustainable considering physical constraints (e.g. water, power) and the role of local policy makers 
4. Modeling policy instruments to assist in lowering aggregate rate of consumption 
5. Find a framework for trade offs between ecosystem services 
6. Conservation strategies that include ecosystem services in their strategies 
7. Applying the New Medievalism concept to sustainability analysis of communities, national parks, and ecosystems 
8. What measures are needed to monitor and understand community well being? 
9. Complex systems methods for sustainability 
10. How can we compare various energy option to determine most appropriate technologies? 
11. making research findings applied - for decision makers, communities, and others 
12. Using agent-based modeling to help identify "voice"/"value" of local people in developing countries for sustainable water resource management 
13. Globalization and sustainability 
14. Preparing for the 2012 United Nations conference on sustainable development (Rio +20) 
15. Human drive to social order and environmental sustainability - complementary or mutually self-destructive? 
16. Human-natural couple systems 
17. Sustainability and resilience of large scale social systems 
18. website/book on ecologic footprint of personal choices (e.g. paper versus plastic if you forget your shopping bags) 
19. How far can a cradle to cradle philosophy take us toward sustainability 
20. Models of sustainable innovation/invention 
21. Agent models to better identify effective policy levers for increasing sustainability 
22. "Sustainable" living means contracted mobility (transportation, food, economic) 
23. Feedbacks between land-use decisions/practices and landscape change 
24. How does community design influence local and global sustainability 
25. Feedbacks in speculative economic behavior in land use and land use transitions 
26. How to fee 9 million people in a world impacted by climate change? Land use transformations. 
27. Physical landscape implications of food-system structures 
28. Looking at the impact of large scale alternative energy projects on local weather 
29. Impact of biofuels on displacing wildlife populations 
30. Markets, natural resources, and inequality 
31. Human cooperation and common natural resources 
32. Gender family and climate change 
33. What's reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation - REDD going to do and not do regarding poverty alleviation and real emissions reductions 
34. Role of food and energy in strengthening rural economies 
35. Indigenous management of natural resources in global markets 
36. Energy (power) systems scaling and sustainability
37. What is the most appropriate (and sustainable) use of biomass resources (e.g. transportation fuels, idustrial feedstocks, enerergy)? What about food? 
38. Energy technology deployment and diffusion 
39. Transformation of the energy system 
40. Energy technology innovation 
41. Prediction of level of future adoption of various energy types 
42. Energy economics 
43. Communicating impact of power decision to consumers 
44. Electric vehicles 
45. Renewable energy sources. Decentralized solar and wind 
46. Energy 
47. Energy and water systems 
48. Community education for universal/global problems 
49. Smale/middle scale solution to make one's life more environmentally friendly and at the same time improve well-being of people (families communities) in developing countries (countries in transition) 
50. Climate cooperation - between entities such as individuals, institutions, and states 
51. Emerging carbon markets in the US West 
52. Pragmatic policies to solve the climate crisis without creating new, even worse, problems 
53. Preparing for the road to UNFCCC-COP 17 in South Africa (CDM, REDD, climate justice, markets) 
54. Equity and climate change 
55. Sustainability as a social organization system 
56. Change in attitude and habits 
57. Societal transitions/transformations - social tipping points - historic perspective and dynamic, systemic perspective

2010 Global Sustainability Summer School-ParticipantSuggestions

2010-07-19T04:33:24Z

Hsoneji: /* Fun */

{{GSSS 2010}}

A few of us thought it might be helpful to have a section of books or readings that participants thought were valuable to the sustainability discussion, or at least good reads! Feel free to change categories, add books, or contribute your own thoughts to books already listed.

== Environmental Studies ==
* "Classics in Environmental Studies" - Nico Helissen (1997).
: Contains excerpts of books and reports from Malthus and Carson to Harrison and Gore. A good way to ramp up quickly on some of the commonly discussed environmental literature. Note the copyright is quite old, so newer stuff is not found in the book.

== Economics ==

== Fun ==
* "Encounters with the Archdruid" - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McPhee John McPhee] (1971).
: A narrative of three journeys with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Brower David Brower], first executive director of the Sierra Club and founder of Friends of the Earth. In each journey, David Brower is paired with a mineral engineer, a dam builder, and a real estate developer. A fabulous and quick read with many take aways.

2010 Global Sustainability Summer School-ParticipantSuggestions

2010-07-18T14:58:23Z

Hsoneji:

{{GSSS 2010}}

A few of us thought it might be helpful to have a section of books or readings that participants thought were valuable to the sustainability discussion, or at least good reads! Feel free to change categories, add books, or contribute your own thoughts to books already listed.

== Environmental Studies ==
* "Classics in Environmental Studies" - Nico Helissen (1997).
: Contains excerpts of books and reports from Malthus and Carson to Harrison and Gore. A good way to ramp up quickly on some of the commonly discussed environmental literature. Note the copyright is quite old, so newer stuff is not found in the book.

== Economics ==

== Fun ==
* "Encounters with the Archdruid" - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McPhee John McPhee] (1971).
: A narrative of three journeys with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Brower David Brower], first executive director of the Sierra Club and founder of Friends of Earth. In each journey, David Brower is paired with a mineral engineer, a dam builder, and a real estate developer. A fabulous and quick read with many take aways.

2010 Global Sustainability Summer School-ParticipantSuggestions

2010-07-18T14:57:38Z

Hsoneji:

{{GSSS 2010}}

A few of us thought it might be helpful to have a section of books/readings that participants that were valuable to the sustainability discussion, or at least great reads! Feel free to change categories, add books, or contribute your own thoughts to books already listed.

== Environmental Studies ==
* "Classics in Environmental Studies" - Nico Helissen (1997).
: Contains excerpts of books and reports from Malthus and Carson to Harrison and Gore. A good way to ramp up quickly on some of the commonly discussed environmental literature. Note the copyright is quite old, so newer stuff is not found in the book.

== Economics ==

== Fun ==
* "Encounters with the Archdruid" - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McPhee John McPhee] (1971).
: A narrative of three journeys with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Brower David Brower], first executive director of the Sierra Club and founder of Friends of Earth. In each journey, David Brower is paired with a mineral engineer, a dam builder, and a real estate developer. A fabulous and quick read with many take aways.

2010 Global Sustainability Summer School-ParticipantSuggestions

2010-07-18T14:47:04Z

Hsoneji:

2010 Global Sustainability Summer School-ParticipantSuggestions

2010-07-18T14:30:04Z

Hsoneji: New page: A few of us thought it might be helpful to have a section of books/readings that participants that were valuable to the sustainability discussion, or at least great reads!

A few of us thought it might be helpful to have a section of books/readings that participants that were valuable to the sustainability discussion, or at least great reads!

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2010-07-18T14:28:43Z

Hsoneji:

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*[[2010_Global_Sustainability_Summer_School (GSSS2010)|Home]]
*[[2010_Global_Sustainability_Summer_School-U.S. Visa Requirements|U.S. Visa Requirements]]
*[[2010_Global_Sustainability_Summer_School-Travel|Travel]]
*[[2010_Global_Sustainability_Summer_School-Logistics|Logistics]]
*[[2010_Global_Sustainability_Summer_School-Faculty|Faculty]]
*[[2010_Global_Sustainability_Summer_School-Participants|Participants]]
*[[2010_Global_Sustainability_Summer_School-Schedule|Schedule]]
*[[2010_Global_Sustainability_Summer_School-Lectures|Lectures]]
*[[2010_Global_Sustainability_Summer_School-Slides|Slides]]
*[[2010_Global_Sustainability_Summer_School-Readings|Supplemental Readings]]
**[[2010_Global_Sustainability_Summer_School-ParticipantSuggestions|Suggested By Participants]]
*[[2010_Global_Sustainability_Summer_School-Tutorials|Tutorials]]
**[[2010_Global_Sustainability_Summer_School-Debates|Debates]]
**[[2010_Global_Sustainability_Summer_School-Op-Ed|Op-Ed Topics]]
*[[2010_Global_Sustainability_Summer_School-After Hours|After Hours]]
*[[2010_Global_Sustainability_Summer_School-Photos|Photos]]
*[[2010_Global_Sustainability_Summer_School-Blog|Blog]]
*[[2010_Global_Sustainability_Summer_School-Projects & Working Groups|Projects & Working Groups]]
*[[2010_Global_Sustainability_Summer_School-Research Agendas|Research Agendas]]

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AgentCollective

2010-07-17T01:29:30Z

Hsoneji:

{{GSSS 2010}}

Links to Literature On

== Agents ==

== NetLogo ==
http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/

== Bayesian Networks ==

AgentCollective

2010-07-17T01:28:33Z

Hsoneji: New page: Links to Literature On == Agents == == NetLogo == http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/ == Bayesian Networks ==

Links to Literature On

== Agents ==

== NetLogo ==
http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/

== Bayesian Networks ==

2010 Global Sustainability Summer School-Research Agendas

2010-07-17T01:27:18Z

Hsoneji: /* Main Topics */

{{GSSS 2010}}

==Main Topics==

[[AgentCollective|Agent modeling --> Collective Action Working Page]]

2010 Global Sustainability Summer School-Research Agendas

2010-07-17T01:25:33Z

Hsoneji:

{{GSSS 2010}}

==Main Topics==

[[Agent modeling --> Collective Action Working Page]]

2010 Global Sustainability Summer School-After Hours

2010-07-15T02:02:42Z

Hsoneji: /* 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 
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==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 
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Unassigned:

John B. 
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. Steve 
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 

==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.

== 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

2010-07-11T23:07:53Z

Hsoneji: /* Bandelier Field Trip */

{{GSSS 2010}}

==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]] 
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8. 

==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.

1.John Paul 
2.Yao 
3.Caleb Gallemore 
4.Gabe Chan 
5.[[Hitesh Soneji]] 
6. 
7. 
8. 

== Farmers Markets ==

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

2010 Global Sustainability Summer School-After Hours

2010-07-11T23:07:23Z

Hsoneji: /* Soylent Green Showing! */

{{GSSS 2010}}

==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. 
6. 
7. 
8. 

==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.

1.John Paul 
2.Yao 
3.Caleb Gallemore 
4.Gabe Chan 
5. 
6. 
7. 
8. 

== Farmers Markets ==

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

Hitesh Soneji

2010-07-06T22:40:07Z

Hsoneji: New page: right I come to the sustainability world from a background that started in robotics and making computer chips. I even dabbled in designing and developing an aut...

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I come to the sustainability world from a background that started in robotics and making computer chips. I even dabbled in designing and developing an automated bicycle sharing scheme with smart racks. More recently, I completed an MS degree in Sustainability Science at Lund University in Sweden, where we worked across many disciplines and countries to investigate the sustainability dilemma in detail. There we posed many questions engaging current paradigms against various social theories, natural physical constraints, and societal responses. In my research there, we utilized agent based models and system dynamics models, among others.

My research interest is book-ended by two pillars that both work to bring us closer to a condition that might resemble sustainable. The first pillar is that of education, or outreach if you will. Sustainability is no trivial problem, and my interest here deals with how best to distill an inherently complex problem into simpler messages that promote social and cultural values consistent with sustainability. I do not believe that sustainability can be achieved if left only for the activists, advocates, and scientists to pursue. Sustainability is a problem of and by the masses. Their engagement is key, and I wish to test and explore media-based and educational pathways to increase the penetration of sustainability as a lay concern.

The second pillar of my research interest is far more technical. It involves agents of the computational sort, modeled after the carbon-based sort. Here I wish to better understand human behavior in complex systems involving constrained and/or hazardous resources. The applications I am most interested in include distributed energy systems, multi-stakeholder water management, and rare/hazardous material flows in information technology equipment.

My research interests go beyond only understanding agent behavior. They extend to the development of the tools and frameworks to enable active participation by a broader group of stakeholders in the sustainability decision-making process. System dynamics and agent-based model improvement hold the promise of allowing policy makers to actively see how stakeholders and ecosystems might respond to policy proposals. My ultimate interest is in formulating a level of understanding of systems and agent behavior that is complete enough to be conducive to predictive computational analysis that enables experimentation with various social and policy tools to achieve greater sustainability.

Currently, I am a faculty at City College of San Francisco, where I am working to integrate sustainability both at the institutional level and in new courses addressing sustainability. I have also been assisting the Green Belt Alliance, a San Francisco non-profit dedicated to preserving open space and promoting smart growth for the bay area. I am also active in San Francisco's sustainable transportation movement, trying to improve SF's transit system and promote bicycling as a safe and legitimate means of transportation. In my spare time, I enjoy hiking, camping, cycling, reading, and of course, my 17 month old.

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2010-07-06T22:04:29Z

Hsoneji: