From consumerism to biomass

All these threads on consumerism, consumption, energy efficiency, biofuels, biomass, etc. have resulted in a valuable exchange of information and opinions. There has been a very good suggestion that some or all of this should be addressed by the ESA. I hope this is done. Meanwhile, it would be use

Re: Seeking textbook recommendations for a "Human Ecology" non-majors course

How about Self-Made Man by Jonathan Kingdon? I thought it was a great natural history of the Homo lineage, apparently a bit out of the mainstream for evolutionary anthropologists, but well-documented and compelling. I think it would be fine for non-majors. Plus it is outstanding at describing H.

Textbook suggestions

Folks: After being away from it for a few years I have been assigned to teach = General Ecology for biology majors. These students are usually juniors = who have had General Biology, A&P, and Molecular Biology [along with = General Chemistry and Calculus]. I am writing to seek suggestions for a

Re: Seeking textbook recommendations for a "Human Ecology" non-majors course

Madhu, I teach an essentially identical course and I have not found any textbook that is adaquate. I instead ended up writing my own 'textbook' of course notes which you are welcome to have a copy of, plus selected readings. The only book I ask my students to read is 'The Third Chimpanzee' by D

Re: George Monbiot on Biofuels

At 05:34 PM + 4/1/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Ashwani says (and ascribing to Ernie), “conservation alone would allow >us to grow into the foreseeable future (say, 50 years), without ANY >increase being needed in energy production.” I disagree. By >definition, conservation is not growth, but

Seeking textbook recommendations for a "Human Ecology" non-majors course

Hi, Next fall I am slated to teach an upper division non-majors course titled "Human Ecology" here at Fresno State. Its been a few years since this course was last taught here, and I will be doing it for the first time. Here's the catalog description for the course (as it was offered in th

Hamerstrom on human population control in the context of raptor management

Raptor biologist Frances Hamerstrom was the only female graduate student of the legendary ecologist/conservationist Aldo Leopold. Fran contributed a paper to a symposium on raptor conservation techniques at Fort Collins, Colorado, 22-24 March 1973, entitled Raptor Management. Here are the firs

invert guides

I want to thank the many, many of you who have responded with suggestions of invertebrate guides that would be easy for undergrads to use. The most highly recommended by far were Merritt and Cummins; Voshell; McCafferty; and the Peterson guide. If anyone knows of a good guide for microinverts (

hello

Dear James, =20 I just read your Remarks to the Commonwealth Club of California = (transcript) http://globalpublicmedia.com/transcripts/2455 = =20 =20 I agree with your analysis but find it trou

Re: George Monbiot on Biofuels

Ashwani says (and ascribing to Ernie), “conservation alone would allow us to grow into the foreseeable future (say, 50 years), without ANY increase being needed in energy production.” I disagree. By definition, conservation is not growth, but rather maintenance of natural capital stocks. I thi

Graduate Research Assistantships in Aquatic Ecology and Ecotoxicology

Graduate Research Assistantships in Aquatic Ecology and Ecotoxicology March 27, 2007 Graduate Research Assistantships (PhD or MS) Aquatic Ecology and Ecotoxicology Baylor University The Ecotoxicology and Aquatic Research Laboratory and the Center for Reservoir and Aquatic Systems Researc

Re: very frightening forecast of civilization's impending crash

Porter's analysis of Duncan's doomsday message assumes reasonable (rational?) behavior by civilized beings. Our supposedly rational citizens and their leaaders are likely to foget the lessons of history. a very interesting book, "A Forest Journey" by John Perlin, goes back in history and examin

"the greatest misallocation of resources in history"

see http://globalpublicmedia.com/transcripts/2455 Analyst James Howard Kunstler just gave a speech to the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco. The transcript is available at the link above. Kunstler describes a dramatically changing world in the aftermath of the passage of the peak of world o

response to Porter's comments on Duncan paper

Hi Bill -- Just a few quick thoughts -- First, I don't believe that Duncan was asserting value judgements about the "goodness" of industrial civilization. In Section 7 he quotes Winteringham (In W.'s book Energy and the Environment) to show why energy use per capita is "the simplest and most