Notes, essays, and questions arising from my work and reading, listed from newest to oldest.
Read the posts in full, in chronological sequence.
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Harmony is dissonance being resolved
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Graphic display of complex information: A challenge for both the strategic advocacy and natural history projects
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Visually powerful landscapes: Seattle waterfront & skyline
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Seeing from multiple perspectives: Fighting for FDR’s remedies is not enough
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“toxic mix of individualism and fear”
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Insights from geology on incomplete information, uncertainty, and problem solving
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Emma Marris’s new contribution to understanding wildness & wilderness, with a critique of the notion that landscapes can (or should) be returned to a baseline date or condition
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Addictions are our human tendencies to be neurotic taken one step further into the realm of brain disease
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Scarcity and instability break down hierarchical social structures
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World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth: There is no conversation
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The Dalai Lama’s martial artistry
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Penetrating our most secure fortifications
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Consequences of choice of symbols: Framing and describing is more than an analytic tool
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State of the art reasoned analysis of complex social-economic systems
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Why reasoned analysis is an insufficient foundation for effective action & leadership
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“Sorting the relevant from the irrelevant, identifying salience, and directing decisions when uncertainty prevents definitive judgment.”
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Conze on perennial and sciential philosophies
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re Rosenberg on modern geoscience and spiritual enlightment – Do the paths converge?
