The FT’s Weekend Edition this past Saturday had its annual compendium of summer reading, put together by its editors. It’s always fun to go through these sorts of list to see if […]
Summer reading list
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We need a better language for nature
Unsolicited Book Reviews: Horizon, by Barry Lopez; Underland, by Robert Macfarlane There are any number of ways to begin this review. I could discuss how our language of “Nature” is fundamentally exploitative–that […]
Trees, and how to love them
On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree. I have lately become taken with trees. This has been growing the past several years, as I have […]
At the World Forum on Natural Capital 2017 – part 2
China is about to become the global standard for this sort of effort, and other countries, particularly developing countries, will be looking to China, not Europe yet, and certainly not the US… […]
At the World Forum on Natural Capital 2017 – part 1
Incorporating natural capital concerns into investment decision-making needs to take place considerably more rapidly – we don’t have two decades. Part 1 of a series Since I’m retired and can go to […]
Wait – the Republican tax bill might do something good?
I hate to say it, but the Republican tax proposals, which would be generally horrible for most people if adopted in their current form, might actually do something good, although this will […]
We need a good word for “green-ness” and “sustainability isn’t it. What about “resilience”?
“Sustainability” and “resilience” aren’t the same thing, and nobody knows what “green” means, anyway. I have become a bit more irritated these days about linguistic sloppiness. Well, I’m getting old and cranky. […]
At Resilience 2017
Acting locally, but perhaps not thinking enough globally… I attended the Resilience Conference in Stockholm this past week. Just what is that, you may wonder. Well, it’s put on by the Stockholm […]
Is J.K Rowling the last truly global literary icon?
So I was switching channels a couple of weeks ago during the rain delay at Wimbledon, and hit a Harry Potter movie, which I am always happy to waste some time on. […]
Is coal really dead? Well, yes.
When the railroad industry decides that coal is dead, it probably is. For all their imperfections, markets generally do know how to price a pretty broad spectrum of goods and services (nature […]
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