The Millennium Alliance for Humanity and Biosphere (MAHB) is a joint
effort to create a platform to help global civil society address the
interconnections among the greatest threats to human well-being:
failure of ecosystem services, economic inequity, social injustice,
hunger, epidemics, toxic chemicals, and loss of security to crime,
terrorism and war, especially resource wars (veiled or not), to name a few.
http://mahb.stanford.edu/welcome/
Their weekly blog http://mahb.stanford.edu/category/blog/ includes
topics that are probably relevant for many ECOLOG-L subscribers. The
most recent one is a discussion about potential negative effects of
the growing emphasis on bibliometrics:
Our obsession with metrics is corrupting science.
http://mahb.stanford.edu/blog/our-obsession-with-metrics/
