Just a quick addendum to some of the economic barriers to moving away from the
growth paradigm (I hate to use the 'p' word, but if it has ever been
appropriate it is appropriate in this context). I believe that one large
barrier to moving towards a steady-state economy is that it means a
Andrew says, The problem is that there is nobody anywhere in the world who
can
envision a practical, politically feasible, and equitable version of
where we want to be.
And Maiken says, But to me predictions of extremely gloomy futures seem to
be counter-productive to stimulate productive
This is a bit misleading, since according to the story the strike follows a
no-confidence vote dealing with misallocaiton of funds and such issues as
increased class sizes as well as salaries, but I think the main point of
this posting is a continuation of the theme that no good deed should go
To Ecolog-L subscribers:
For 40 years, Shoals Marine Laboratory has specialized in
undergraduate education in marine science and sustainability. Over
the last two years we have expanded SML's Curriculum to better serve
students from all over the country. This summer, we will offer more
This week in ESA News and Views, the ESA blog (http://esa.org/esablog/
http://esa.org/esablog/ ):
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Read Steve Beissinger's discussion of his and Zachariah Peery's article,
Reconstructing the historic demography of an endangered seabird
published in the February issue of Ecology (and read the
The Heinz Center, a Washington, D.C. based non-profit, is seeking
applications for the position of research associate in its Saint Paul,
MN satellite office. The successful candidate will work on The State of
the Nation's Ecosystems report series, a major project at the Heinz
Center designed to
Location: North Carolina
Application deadline: 5/3/2007
Title: Assistant or Associate Professor, Environmental Biology
Dept: Biology
Position Number: 3780
Department/Program Overview:
The Department of Biology is seeking applicants for a 9-month,
tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant or
Warren --
What you seem to be describing is a return to an agrarian society (with
islands of urbanism), something like we had in the U.S. in the 1930's.
Which is what Richard Clark Duncan and James Howard Kunstler said as the
direction we are forced to go because of the depletion of petroleum
This position will be primarily responsible for field and data entry
components of a summer flounder distard mortality study and tuna sampling
project. Duties will include collection of fish aboard commercial vessels
in accordance with sample design; maintenance and monitoring of on-board
and
Post-doctoral Research Position
Dept. of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, Colorado State
University, Fort Collins CO 80523-1474
and
Mammals Research Program, Colorado Division of Wildlife, 317 West Prospect,
Fort Collins, CO 80526
Position #: LYNX/05/31/2007
Position
The Ackerly Lab at the University of California, Berkeley is looking for a
volunteer field assistant
for a project in Amazonian Ecuador from approximately two months beginning in
late May or early
June 2007. Start and end dates may be flexible to fit the volunteer's
schedule. The project
Experienced Bird Bander needed for the MONITORING AVIAN PRODUCTIVITY
AND SURVIVORSHIP (MAPS) PROGRAM. The Institute for Bird Populations
(IBP) is seeking an experienced bird bander to operate constant
effort mist-netting and banding stations on Fort Bragg, North
Carolina from May 1 to August
Please distribute to any interested undergraduate student that may be near the
Tucson area.
Thanks,
Chris
Paid Summer Internship
I am looking for an intern to assist with a plant ecology study in southern
Arizona. I am using prescribed fire and livestock grazing to reduce
Summer Field Technician Position
An energetic field technician is sought to work as part of a team
conducting research on vegetation and avian community response to habitat
restoration programs (fire and mechanical treatments) on south Florida
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Primary responsibility will be sampling plant species composition in
research sites at the U.S. Sheep Experiment Station, in eastern Idaho.
Additional field tasks will include seed collection and setting up and
fencing experimental plots. Laboratory tasks will include data entry,
sorting and
Just reading Bill Silvert's note about juggling packages along the side
of the road because of no car and non-use of plastic bags. It reminds
me of the sabbatical leave where I was a visiting professor at the
UH-Manoa. We lived in Kailua with no car for a full year, but we did
take our
I admire you and I suspect you are right that we will find ourselves on bikes
but the
transition will not be voluntary. Kailua, Hawaii is relatively bike friendly.
In most of
Honolulu you would have been down a child or two or a spouse, thanks to our
terrible roads,
no shoulders, and
I enjoyed Larry's reponse to my posting, and it brought back two memories.
In 1982 I spent the summer with my family on the Dutch island of Texel, and
although we were lent a car for all the time we were there, I think we only
used it three times -- loaded up with cases of beer for the 5 km
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