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Seeking Climate Reconciliation
Under business-as-usual climate projections, many of today’s children would grow up to become both perpetrators and victims.
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Climate Change as a Perfect Moral Storm
Climate change brings together global and intergenerational challenges to our ability to behave ethically.
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Notebook 2009: The Summer of Our Climate Politics
The science of greenhouse gases dominated climate debates for many years. More and more, climate will become a social phenomenon as well.
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Climate Change and Subsistence
For Arctic communities, climate change is not a hypothetical event.
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A Right to Development
Emissions after all are a means, not an end; the end is what we have come to call “development."
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The Story of the Trillion Tons of Carbon
A new target for carbon emissions reveals fresh insights.
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The Work of a Writer in a World of Wounds
To know what are our responsibilities, we must ask, what are our gifts?
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The Ethics of Geoengineering
At least three important ethical considerations come to bear: the importance of democratic decision-making, the prohibition against irreversible changes, and the significance of learning to live with nature.
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Thinking about “The Green Mind”
How good a society does human nature permit? How good a human nature does society permit?
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Stuart Kauffman: The Open Universe and the Sacred
I’m going to talk about a sense of God that I think is sharable.
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Climate Change and Cosmopolitan Citizenship
What does it mean to share the obligations of citizenship with all of humanity?
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Sustainability: The S-Word
Sustainability, writes Bill McKibben, is a buzzword without the buzz.
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Climate Change Changes Everything
A discipline-by-discipline tally of assumptions altered and challenges encountered.
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The Ethics of Climate Change
The consequences of climate change will challenge us to reshape and reform our concepts of individual and political morality.
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Wrapping Up Issue #1
Thanks for joining P&P in this look at resilience thinking and related ideas.
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Panarchy and Pace in the Big Back Loop
What can we learn by mapping these two metaphors against each other?
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On the Changing Roles of Nonprofits
One need not work for a nonprofit to be attracted to the idea of utilizing the Net to spur social change.
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Agency and Community Resilience
The capacity of an individual or community to plan or initiate action is known as the exercise of agency.
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Six Habits of Highly Resilient Organizations
What differentiates success and failure, resilience and collapse?
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Not Wrong, Just Incomplete
I find an appealing sense of graciousness in this phrase: "not wrong, just incomplete."
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Collapse and Renewal
These are the lessons I have learned that help in the process of dealing with turbulence.
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Climate Adaptation for Resilient Communities
I explore the idea and practice of adaptation, while surveying a range of materials that have caught our attention.
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Energy Uncertainty and Community Resilience
Urban planners and policymakers will need to turn to more systems-informed approaches to community governance and development.
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Uncertainty and Resilience
Whether change manifests as threat or opportunity depends on our capacity to adapt and remake ourselves and our civilization.
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Modularity: Small Pieces Loosely Joined
Modularity is one of a handful of factors – including feedback, diversity and redundancy – that bolster social and ecological resilience.
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Winter Storms and Shifting Baselines
The term shifting baseline refers to the limited timescales of personal experiences.
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Partnership and Resilience
Let's ask questions that differ from the “ruling paradigm” not only about how we manage natural resources, but how we manage ourselves.
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Mellon Award for Technology Collaboration
This is the first time that the Mellon Award has been given for an application in ecosystem-based management or conservation.
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The Tragedy - 40 Years Later
The dilemma, following Garrett Hardin's reassessment, is not that the atmosphere is a commons, but that it is an unmanaged commons.
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