Fwd: global influence on china

2007-04-23 Thread Kai N. Lee
In addition, look at the China Sustainable Energy Project, undertaken by the Energy Foundation in San Francisco. I don't know how much has been published, but this appears to be an impressive effort. Cheers, Kai Kai N. Lee, Rosenburg Professor of environmental studies, Cente

Coral reef thank you

2007-03-15 Thread Kai N. Lee
To those who responded earlier this week, this from my grateful student. I am grateful as well for the generosity of the contributors to this list in general. Cheers, Kai Kai N. Lee, Rosenburg Professor of environmental studies, Center for Environmental Studies, Williams College, Kellogg

climate change and community-based management

2007-03-12 Thread Kai N. Lee
cally sealed, even if resources are not to be sold beyond the community. This does not mean that Willett's student should not have had his attention turned to acidification as a major issue in saving coral reefs, of course. Cheers, Kai Kai N. Lee, Rosenburg Professor of environment

Community-based management of coral reef resources

2007-03-11 Thread Kai N. Lee
Colleagues, Advice for this (very good) student would be welcomed. Cheers, Kai Kai N. Lee, Rosenburg Professor of environmental studies, Center for Environmental Studies, Williams College, Kellogg House, 41 Mission Park Drive, Williamstown MA 01267 USA. Voice & voicemail: 01 +413

RE: Query on environmental food boycotts

2007-03-07 Thread Kai N. Lee
wood. The article by Pauly et al contains factual errors, but the bibliography is probably what matters for present purposes. Cheers, Kai Kai N. Lee, Rosenburg Professor of environmental studies, Center for Environmental Studies, Williams College, Kellogg House, 41 Mission Park Drive, Wi

Fwd: economic mechanisms that discourage sustainability?

2007-03-01 Thread Kai N. Lee
-- like the General Mining Law of 1872. This is a US study. Cheers, Kai Kai N. Lee, Rosenburg Professor of environmental studies, Center for Environmental Studies, Williams College, Kellogg House, 41 Mission Park Drive, Williamstown MA 01267 USA. Voice & voicemail: 01 +413-597-2358; fax

Fwd: Clean-car regime?

2007-02-27 Thread Kai N. Lee
leage standards than the US effective next year. Cheers, Kai Kai N. Lee, Rosenburg Professor of environmental studies, Center for Environmental Studies, Williams College, Kellogg House, 41 Mission Park Drive, Williamstown MA 01267 USA. Voice & voicemail: 01 +413-597-2358; fax: 01+413

Re: Recommendations for CC Speakers?

2007-02-22 Thread Kai N. Lee
Friedman of the NY Times says, but he's about as expensive as Gore, I think. Cheers, Kai Kai N. Lee, Rosenburg Professor of environmental studies, Center for Environmental Studies, Williams College, Kellogg House, 41 Mission Park Drive, Williamstown MA 01267 USA. Voice & voicemail

food imports & poor farmers

2007-02-14 Thread Kai N. Lee
he thread Angus Wright contributed to most recently. Cheers, Kai Kai N. Lee, Rosenburg Professor of environmental studies, Center for Environmental Studies, Williams College, Kellogg House, 41 Mission Park Drive, Williamstown MA 01267 USA. Voice & voicemail: 01 +413-597-2358; fa

international trade & small ag producers

2007-02-13 Thread Kai N. Lee
of California Press. HD1417 .T83 2000 Cheers, Kai Kai N. Lee, Rosenburg Professor of environmental studies, Center for Environmental Studies, Williams College, Kellogg House, 41 Mission Park Drive, Williamstown MA 01267 USA. Voice & voicemail: 01 +413-597-2358; fax: 01+413-597-3489.

Vegan and Environmental Impact

2007-01-31 Thread Kai N. Lee
d than the farmers market, but not less important ones. Cheers, Kai Kai N. Lee, Rosenburg Professor of environmental studies, Center for Environmental Studies, Williams College, Kellogg House, 41 Mission Park Drive, Williamstown MA 01267 USA. Voice & voicemail: 01 +413-597-2358; fax

Re: query on recycling

2006-11-16 Thread Kai N. Lee
re to "release" land for protecting biodiversity. Ausubel is a leading light of technological optimism. But they do use real data. Kai N. Lee, Rosenburg Professor of environmental studies, Center for Environmental Studies, Williams College, Kellogg House, 41 Mission Park Drive,

Commodity Chains?

2006-10-23 Thread Kai N. Lee
ble upon request. Cheers, Kai Kai N. Lee, Rosenburg Professor of environmental studies, Center for Environmental Studies, Williams College, Kellogg House, 41 Mission Park Drive, Williamstown MA 01267 USA. Voice & voicemail: 01 +413-597-2358; fax: 01+413-597-3489. http://www.williams.edu

scenarios & environmental politics

2006-09-06 Thread Kai N. Lee
To Stacy's query: There is a lay discussion in Allen Hammond's Which World? (1998), with references. A good deal of work has been done by the Tellus Institute in Boston (a unit of the Stockholm Environment Institute), so their website may have more. Cheers, Kai Kai N. Lee,

a tangent on Sunstein

2006-08-30 Thread Kai N. Lee
e Katrina, an abundantly, even meticulously predicted catastrophe. What do we social scientists have to offer in light of these developments? (Hint: that is a genuine question.) Cheers, Kai Kai N. Lee, Rosenburg Professor of environmental studies, Center for Environmental Studies, Williams Colleg

Re: The state of the environment online source?

2006-08-14 Thread Kai N. Lee
-win paths open, as well as to consider what they are willing for all of us to give up (e.g., low-cost air travel, perhaps). That is also an essential part of their environmental education. Cheers, Kai Kai N. Lee, Rosenburg Professor of environmental studies, Center for Environmental

Fwd: readings on scale?

2006-07-28 Thread Kai N. Lee
bility), or function (e.g., water rights that ignore instream ecosystem needs). Does anyone know of an argument that this is incomplete in some way? Cheers, Kai Kai N. Lee, Rosenburg Professor of environmental studies, Center for Environmental Studies, Williams College, Kellogg House, 41

Re: Food issues

2006-05-09 Thread Kai N. Lee
2000 Kai N. Lee, Rosenburg Professor of environmental studies, Center for Environmental Studies, Williams College, Kellogg House, 41 Mission Park Drive, Williamstown MA 01267 USA. Voice & voicemail: 01 +413-597-2358; fax: 01+413-597-3489. http://www.williams.edu/ces/ces/people/

Fwd: Food issues

2006-05-09 Thread Kai N. Lee
hat too is anchored in the US. Cheers, Kai Kai N. Lee, Rosenburg Professor of environmental studies, Center for Environmental Studies, Williams College, Kellogg House, 41 Mission Park Drive, Williamstown MA 01267 USA. Voice & voicemail: 01 +413-597-2358; fax: 01+413-597-3489. htt

Fwd: Easy to read climate book?

2006-04-06 Thread Kai N. Lee
Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate ChangeElizabeth KolbertBloomsbury books, about $16 from Barnes & NobleA reprint of K's lucid portrayal of ideas and scientists, which appeared in the New Yorker magazine last year.  I have used parts in teaching. Kai N. Lee,

hidropolitics and a tangent

2006-04-04 Thread Kai N. Lee
used in this comment. Cheers, Kai Kai N. Lee, Rosenburg Professor of Environmental Studies, Williams College, Williamstown MA 01267 USA, 01+413-597-2358 (voice and voice mail), 01+413-597-3489 (fax), [EMAIL PROTECTED]; http:// www.williams.edu/CES/ces/people/klee/klee.htm

environmental jokes, limited successes, hard problems, etc.

2006-02-09 Thread Kai N. Lee
to try to assemble a mosaic that has in it both hope and realistic appreciation of the world as we find it. Cheers, Kai Kai N. Lee, Rosenburg professor of environmental studies, Center for Environmental Studies, Kellogg House, Williams College, P.O. Box 632, Williamstown, Massachusetts, U.S.A. 1+413-597-2358.

developing countries & GEP

2006-02-01 Thread Kai N. Lee
nce. The priorities one infers: economic growth, not human development. Is this (not) a general phenomenon? I should be grateful for suggested sources. Cheers, Kai Kai N. Lee, Rosenburg professor of environmental studies, Center for Environmental Studies, Kellogg House, Williams College, P.O

Fwd: Conservation and justice - Here's more on enviro justice

2005-11-06 Thread Kai N. Lee
Kathy, Might you give us an example of a successful environmental services market, in your view? I'm not sure what you mean by tackling inequities head-on. Cheers, Kai Kai N. Lee, Rosenburg Professor of Environmental Studies, Williams College, Center for Environmental Studies, Kellogg

Kennan, 1970

2005-08-22 Thread Kai N. Lee
lements of power politics and sclerotic bureaucracy. I wonder what others in this list see as shortcomings in Kennan's projections. Today, one would not write what he did, but this is a different world too. Cheers, Kai Kai N. Lee, Rosenburg Professor of Environmental Studies, Wil

Re: Global env'l justice and voluntary self-restraint

2005-06-14 Thread Kai N. Lee
ce on environmental matters. Whether there is any such dynamic operative with respect to radioactive wastes, I do not know. Jane Dawson at Conn College has written about radioactive waste and may be able to illuminate your question too. Cheers, Kai Kai N. Lee, Rosenburg Professor of Environm

graduate programs

2004-11-15 Thread Kai N. Lee
All, One of our best students, an anthropology major, nearly chose to go to the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague. I believe students with environmental interests are seeing Europe as a viable alternative to the US now. American exceptionalism being what it is. Cheers, Kai Kai N. Lee