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Lewis Hyde: On Being Good Ancestors
Lucan and Oldenburg: these are good ancestors for the community of science; their institutions survive.
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Steve Waldman & the FCC: Accountability Reporting
One way or another, if we want to have accountability reporting, citizens are going to have to pay for some of it.
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John Thackara: A Restorative Economy
Many people in this movement are recycling buildings in downtowns and suburbs, favelas and slums. They often work alongside computer recyclers, hardware bricoleurs, office-block refurbishers and trailer-park renewers.
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John Gastil: Deliberation and Governance
The Citizens’ Initiative Review now joins a set of innovative processes that have linked citizen deliberation directly to government.
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The Quality of Public Participation: Oregon's CIR
Citizen’s Initiative Review (CIR) passed the Oregon Senate this week and heads to the Governor's desk for signing.
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Business as Usual & Regime Shifts
A regime comprises a coherent configuration of technological, institutional, economic, social, cognitive and physical elements and actors with individual goals, values and beliefs.
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Urban Density and Operating Costs | UNEP
Densification reduces the capital and operating costs of infrastructure.
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Open-Access Climate Science
“I think scientists are missing a trick by not open sourcing their code,” says Barnes.
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Intermittency and the HVDC Supergrid
One strategy for addressing the intermittency of renewables is to build a grid that connects a wide portfolio of resources.
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Nitrogen Is Life | European Nitrogen Assessment
The benefits of nitrogen pollution mitigation are 20 times the costs.
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Historical Range of Variability in Temperate Rain Forests
The HRV is the estimated range of some ecological condition that occurred in the past. The FRV is the estimated range of some ecological condition that may occur in the future. The SRV is the range of an ecological condition that society finds acceptable at a given time.
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Biodiversity Improves Water Quality | Nature
These results provide direct evidence that communities with more species take greater advantage of the niche opportunities in an environment, and this allows diverse systems to capture a greater proportion of biologically available resources such as nitrogen.
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For-Profit - Nonprofit Hybrids | SSIR
Much to the chagrin of social entrepreneurs, U.S. law does not currently recognize any single legal entity that can simultaneously accept tax-deductible donated capital, invested capital, and quasi-invested capital.
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Bats, Wind Energy and Agriculture
Ninety percent of the bats they examined after death showed signs of internal hemorrhaging consistent with trauma from the sudden drop in air pressure.
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UK Energy and Climate Passions
The bloggers at Political Climate declare "prosperity without growth" to be a red herring; a piece at Prospect magazine insists that "peak oil" is as well.
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Westley and Antadze: Social and Institutional Entrepreneurs
Institutional entrepreneurs: individuals or networks of individuals who actively seek to change the broader social system through changing the political, economic, legal, or cultural institutions.
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Ian Gill: Faith in People and Place
A love of place and an identification with the culture of particular places is what allows communities to thrive.
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Matthew Stadler: Between City and Countryside | Oregon Humanities
How can we finally leave the long, divisive story of the city and the countryside behind us?
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David Greenberg: The Perils of Social Criticism | NYT
Lippmann’s experience will be familiar to almost anyone who has written a book aspiring to analyze a social or political problem. Practically every example of that genre, no matter how shrewd or rich its survey of the question at hand, finishes with an obligatory prescription that is utopian, banal, unhelpful or out of tune with the rest of the book.
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Buzz Holling: The Pathology of Ecosystem Management
I reviewed some twenty-three examples of managed ecosystems. In each of the cases the goal was to control a target variable in order to achieve social objectives, typically maintaining or expanding employment and economic activity.
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Principles for Effective Decision Support | National Research Council
We found that the same core principles that characterize effective decision support in such areas as public health, natural resource management, and environmental risk management apply to informing decisions about responses to climate change.
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UN Special Rapporteur: Agroecology Can Double Food Production
As a set of agricultural practices, agroecology seeks ways to enhance agricultural systems by mimicking natural processes, thus creating beneficial biological interactions and synergies among the components of the agroecosystem.
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Green Jobs for Europe - The New Growth Path
A European CO2 reduction target of 30% could increase both employment and economic growth.
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From Decline to Rebirth | Natural History Network
We use the word history in natural history without thinking about it, but you accumulate this history of observations that then informs what you're seeing.
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Linking Weather and Climate | Nature
A pair of Nature articles conclude that climate warming is already causing extreme weather events.
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Jonathan Haidt: Morality Binds and Blinds
Genes and cultural innovations interact, in small groups, not in continent-wide races.
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Ann Swidler: Creating and Restoring Institutions
One of the things that cultural embedding of an institution does is create a narrative, a set of plausible stories, that align your own moral incentives with the institution.
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Thomas Schoener: Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics
Nothing in evolution or ecology makes sense except in the light of the other.
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Big Questions in Social Science | Harvard U.
A dozen "big thinkers" were invited by Harvard University to give talks on "the hardest questions in social science."
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What Scientific Concept? | Edge
Ecology has given us a whole new sense of who we are, where we fit, and how things work.
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