Category Archives: Climate Change

Sonya Landau Guest Blog: Arizona: Water Shortage vs. Population Growth

Posted on July 11, 2023 by climatechangefork

Hi, I’m Sonya Landau. I’ve been Micha’s editor for this blog since the beginning, and have contributed a couple of guest blogs over the years regarding Tucson, water, and heat (see the October 9, 2018 and June 22, 2021 posts). … Continue reading →

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Arizona: Remedies for Water Shortage

Posted on July 4, 2023 by climatechangefork

By the time that you read this blog (and the next two), I will be in Australia. I will return toward the end of the month, and I will write about some of my experiences. In this blog and with … Continue reading →

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Phase Transition in People’s Movements

Posted on June 27, 2023 by climatechangefork

(Source: Mitratech) As I mentioned in earlier blogs, my spring semester is over, and the summer break has started. My wife and I have been dealing with some health issues and we were thinking seriously about staying home, recuperating, and … Continue reading →

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Prerequisites for Supreme Court Judges

Posted on June 13, 2023 by climatechangefork

(Source: MarcusObal on Wikimedia) “Playing with fire” is an idiom that has become popular on more than one level. Cambridge Dictionary describes it as “to act in a way that is very dangerous and to take risks.” I am writing this blog in NYC, which … Continue reading →

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Incorporating Changing Reality into College Strategic Plans: Part 6: The Many Ways

Posted on June 6, 2023 by climatechangefork

Senator Schumer coordinated what was probably the most consequential senate resolution in his tenure as majority leader, close to midnight on Thursday (June 1st). Even so, he was able to show up Friday morning at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center, to celebrate … Continue reading →

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Incorporating Changing Reality into College Strategic Plans: Part 5: Extending Boundaries

Posted on May 30, 2023 by climatechangefork

Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller My last blog finished with a promise that this blog would propose ways to incorporate attempts to understand accelerated global changes into the strategic plans of local schools. Again, I will focus on my school. … Continue reading →

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Incorporating Changing Reality into College Strategic Plans: Part 4: Incorporated Research

Posted on May 23, 2023 by climatechangefork

Physics laboratory at Brooklyn College This blog tries to deliver on last week’s blog’s promise to look at the broader impacts of research in the Brooklyn College (BC) Strategic Plan. As I’ve mentioned in earlier blogs in this series, universities … Continue reading →

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Incorporating Changing Reality into College Strategic Plans: Part 2: Matching Students’ Expectations

Posted on May 9, 2023 by climatechangefork

This series of blogs started around Earth Day (April 25, 2023 post), with a question of how best to incorporate Earth Day’s aspiration on a local level. I decided to focus on my own college and university: Brooklyn College (BC) … Continue reading →

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Teaching Students to be Involved in the Energy Transition

Posted on April 18, 2023 by climatechangefork

Spring Break at Brooklyn College I am starting this blog at the tail-end of spring break at my university (CUNY). It will be posted as classes recommence for a month, followed by final exams and the summer break. This is … Continue reading →

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Inserting Climate Change into our Collective Thinking

Posted on April 11, 2023 by climatechangefork

(Source: SafeKids Worldwide) Last week’s blog focused on collective crimes, collective blame, and collective wisdom. A timely question relevant to my teaching and to this blog is how we “fertilize” collective wisdom to prevent or mitigate global disasters such as … Continue reading →

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