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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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Population Decline – Background

Posted on February 28, 2023 by climatechangefork

Figure 1 (Source: World Economic Forum) While I was busy over the last few blogs talking about living and dying in the Anthropocene, a few major changes in the demography of the planet took place. These changes drove me to … Continue reading →

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Energy Intensity

Posted on December 20, 2022 by climatechangefork

My recent blogs have focused on COP27 and its main decision of creating a mechanism for developed countries to transfer resources to developing countries to help them adapt to the damage that climate change inflicts. The best way for everybody … Continue reading →

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Will Our Children and Grandchildren be Grateful and Think Well of Us??

Posted on December 14, 2022 by climatechangefork

The title of this blog doesn’t set any time frame. My grandchildren and my students are approximately the same age. However, it strongly indicates that something good is now happening. This good thing is happening as a result of the … Continue reading →

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COP27 is Over: Draft of Final Decisions to Transfer Resources to Developing Countries

Posted on November 22, 2022 by climatechangefork

The COP27 meeting concluded on November 18th; I’ve been following its progress. As I described last week, this meeting’s main topic was the difficulty developing countries are having in financing the required mitigation and adaptation to climate change. They have … Continue reading →

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Antisemitism and Collegiality

Posted on November 8, 2022 by climatechangefork

Two days before the Israeli elections (Tuesday, November 1st) and a week before the approaching elections in the US (Today, Tuesday, November 8th), I received an email from a Jewish colleague about an ongoing, anti-Israeli petition that was circulating in … Continue reading →

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Campus as a Lab Part 4: In Defense of Failures; Happy New Year!

Posted on September 27, 2022 by climatechangefork

      Source: iStock Photo I know that the title makes for a strange combination! This blog is being posted on the second day of the Jewish New Year. Similar to other New Year postings (see the September 22, … Continue reading →

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Back to ESG

Posted on August 16, 2022 by climatechangefork

ESG (Environmental Social & Governance) is back at the forefront of discussion as an investment tool. Put ESG into this blog’s search box and you will get a few entries. The May 24, 2022 blog provides some details and connections … Continue reading →

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Campus as a Lab: Part 2

Posted on August 2, 2022 by climatechangefork

My July 12th blog summarized why laboratory training has been found to be essential in teaching STEM (except for Mathematics) and for that reason, why teaching science is more expensive than teaching other disciplines. I based my arguments there on … Continue reading →

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Campus as a Lab: Part 1

Posted on July 19, 2022 by climatechangefork

Source: Rutgers Living Laboratories Campus as a lab (CAL) is becoming a teaching and organizational tool across campuses. I am including a schematic diagram of the dynamics of the concept, taken from the Rutgers University site, above. If you Google … Continue reading →

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