[ECOLOG-L] Fwd: An Atlas for the End of the World

and design of hotspot cities and regions as interdependent ecological and economic systems. - Ashwani Vasishth vasis...@ramapo.edu (201) 684-6616 http://phobos.ramapo.edu/~vasishth

[ECOLOG-L] PhD programs focused on moth ecology and evolution

Dear colleagues, Where might one go to study the ecology and evolution of moths, please? I would be psrticularly grateful if you would reply off-list to this address. vasis...@ramapo.edu Thank you, -- - Ashwani Vasishth vasis...@ramapo.edu (201) 684-6616

[ECOLOG-L] Call for Applications: Master of Arts In Sustainability Studies, Ramapo College

and communication; methods of sustainability research; and the practice of sustainability. For more information, and to apply, please visit: http://www.ramapo.edu/masters-sustainability/ Or contact me directly. - Ashwani Vasishth vasis...@ramapo.edu (201) 684-6616

[ECOLOG-L] Resource: News Groups

Subscribable News Groups: Environmental Ecology News: News, reviews and informational items pertaining to environmental and ecological issues, as well as political ecology. To subscribe or to access archives, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/envecolnews/ or send a blank e-mail

[ECOLOG-L] World Environment Day, 2009

http://www.unep.org/wed/2009/english/

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Ecosystem function at the most basic level

countervailing forces of creation and destruction-a la Holling's "figure of eight" scheme. Ergo, relationships are what enable systems to persist. But then, I'm just a planner... - Ashwani Vasishthvasis...@csun.edu (818) 677-6137

[ECOLOG-L] Today is Endangered Species Day!!!

http://www.stopextinction.org/cgi-bin/giga.cgi?cmd=cause_dir_custom&cause_id=1704&page=day

[ECOLOG-L] Interview: Lubchenco, On Mitigating Climate Change

http://www.loe.org/shows/segments.htm?programID=09-P13-00019&segmentID=1 Lubchenco's Climate Service NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenco wants to start a National Climate Service to help farmers, fishermen and city planners better deal with the coming challenges from a changing climate. Host

Re: [ECOLOG-L] ESA position statement economic growth

do we make our cities, home to the majority, now, friendlier to nature, and begin the process started by Steward Pickett in taking "humans as components of ecosystems." Robert Costanza is a solid source for information on ecological economics and sustainable development, in my op

Re: [ECOLOG-L] looking for municipalities with climate change plans

http://www.planning.org/research/energy/database/ Planners Energy and Climate Database This database provides examples of communities that have taken steps to integrate energy and climate change issues into planning, states that have addressed climate change issues in plans or policies, and oth

[ECOLOG-L] News: Report Calls for "Prosperity without Growth"

[The report itself, Prosperity without Growth? - The transition to a sustainable economy, can be accessed from: http://www.sd-commission.org.uk/publications.php?id=914 ] * * * http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/30/g20-sustainable-development-commission Ahead of G20 summit, report says

Re: [ECOLOG-L] New Book for Nature Enthusiasts

Besides, passion is endemic to any attentive pursuit of knowledge. (See, as merely one example, Evelyn Fox Keller's A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock.) Cheers, - Ashwani Vasishthvasis...@csun.edu (818) 677

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Overpopulation / Economics and Ecology

hing we can possibly do about population will have a lag time of decades. Anything we do about consumption and pollution can have immediate impacts. The choice is ours. And yes, innovation, though taken differently than Julian Simon meant it, is still the answer. Cheers, - Ashwani Vasis

[ECOLOG-L] National Teach-In On Global Warming Solutions, Feb. 5, 2009

each-In Director Professor Eban Goodstein and the National Teach-In staff at our offices at Lewis & Clark College. To find your regional coordinator, check out <http://www.nationalteachinn.org/contact.php>http://www.nationalteachinn.org/contact.php. Cheers, - Ashwani Vasishth

[ECOLOG-L] 14 Questions on Science - Obama and McCain

See: http://www.sciencedebate2008.com/www/index.php?id=42 Cheers, - Ashwani Vasishth[EMAIL PROTECTED] (818) 677-6137 Director

[ECOLOG-L] Campus Sustainability Planning News Group

: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cheers, - Ashwani Vasishth[EMAIL PROTECTED] (818) 677-6137 Assistant Professor Department of Urban Studies and Planning

[ECOLOG-L] Feature: Exploring A Sustainable Model of Growth

This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the envecolnews group. File : /Getting_to_Green_Growth.doc Uploaded by : ashwanivasishth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Description : New Scientist Special Report On

[ECOLOG-L] Feature: A Steady State Economic Perspective On the Global Financial Crisis

http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/growth-economics-on-a-finite-planet/ October 13, 2008, 10:03 am Growth Economics on a Finite Planet By Andrew C. Revkin Over the weekend, I asked Herman Daly, the specialist in "ecological economics" at the University of Maryland, about the recent f

[ECOLOG-L] Zero-growth and Steady State Economics

approach means that governments would be looking at rapidly declining revenues--so other policy approaches would need to be synthesized with carbon and other green taxes.) Cheers, - Ashwani Vasishth[EMAIL PROTECTED] (818) 677-6137 http://www.csun.edu/~va

[ECOLOG-L] Presidential Candidates' positions on science issues

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/16/science/16science.html?_r=1&ref=science&oref=slogin Presidential Candidates' Positions on Science Issues By WILLIAM J. BROAD Published: September 15, 2008 Both presidential candidates have now issued answers to a series of questions about science policy, Senat

[ECOLOG-L] Feature: Soil Is Not Dirt

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/09/soil/mann-text Published: September 2008 Good Earth The future rests on the soil beneath our feet. By Charles C. Mann [...] ..."With eight billion people, we're going to have to start getting interested in soil," he said. "We're simply not goin

[ECOLOG-L] News: Limited Comment Period on Proposed Gutting of the Endangered Species Act

http://www.latimes.com/news/custom/scimedemail/la-ed-species14-2008aug14,0,4172592.story EDITORIAL An endangered act A new proposal would let all kinds of federal agencies make decisions about what species to protect. August 14, 2008 The Bush administration has shown extraordinary disdai

[ECOLOG-L] Fwd: NEW BOOK: The Ecosystem Approach

Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:23:59 -0400 From: Nina-Marie Lister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: NEW BOOK: The Ecosystem Approach To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear Colleagues, Together with Prof. David Waltner-Toews, and the late Prof. James Kay, I am pleased to announce the launch of our new book f

[ECOLOG-L] News: Europe Considers Saving Its Soils

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=43274 EUROPE: No Consensus on Saving the Soil By David Cronin BRUSSELS, Jul 22 (IPS) - Soil is one of the few major areas of environmental policy to remain largely outside the purview of European Union law. Humanity's survival might hinge on whether crop

Re: [ECOLOG-L] News: Soil Declared A Natural Resource, By Senate Resolution

s Act. Or better yet, an Ecosystem Management Act. That gets us closest to where we want to go, ecologically speaking. If the Ecological Society of America is willing to take this on, I'd love to participate. Cheers, - Ashwani Vasishth[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[ECOLOG-L] News: Soil Declared A Natural Resource, By Senate Resolution

http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Senate_Resolution_Shines_Spotlight_On_The_Importance_Of_Soils_999.html Senate Resolution Shines Spotlight On The Importance Of Soils The Resolution acknowledges the work of soil scientists and soil professionals to continue to enrich the lives of all Ameri

[ECOLOG-L] Ecological Impacts of impervious surfaces on soil health

rsity, and the argument that we are destroying it at a planetary level. Thanks, - Ashwani Vasishth[EMAIL PROTECTED] (818) 677-6137 http://www.csun.edu/~vasishth/

[ECOLOG-L] Soil health and urban impervious surfaces

stand this relationship, please? Thanks, - Ashwani Vasishth[EMAIL PROTECTED] (818) 677-6137 http://www.csun.edu/~vasishth/

[ECOLOG-L] News: May 16, 2008 is Endangered Species Day In the US

https://www.givengain.com/cgi-bin/giga.cgi?c=1704 Celebrate Endangered Species Day on May 16, 2008 Endangered Species Day is an opportunity for people young and old to learn about the importance of protecting endangered species and everyday actions that we can take to help protect our nation's

[ECOLOG-L] Activism: Toward A 350 PPM Carbon Concentration for the Ecosphere

Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 15:25:49 -0400 (EDT) From: "350.org" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Help Us Launch Our Website Friends, Our goal for 350.org is simple. We want to bring together an unstoppable movement to spread the most important number on the planet. Scientists like James Hansen of NASA

[ECOLOG-L] Resource: Topical news groups with searchable archives

anonymously, send a blank e-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cheers, - Ashwani Vasishth[EMAIL PROTECTED] (818) 677-6137 http://www.csun.edu/~vasishth

Re: [ECOLOG-L] McDonough - I don't think so

05 in support of plug-in hybrid vehicles (which are substantially different from the Prius, IMO). See: http://www.calcars.org/calcars-news/148.html Cheers, - Ashwani Vasishth[EMAIL PROTECTED] (818) 677-6137 http://www.csun.edu/~vasishth/ At 10:

[ECOLOG-L] Ecology in Canada?

Is there the equivalent of the ESA in Canada, would anyone know, please? And any references for the history of ecology as it developed in Canada? Thanks, - Ashwani Vasishth[EMAIL PROTECTED] (818) 677-6137 http://www.csun.edu/~vasishth/

Ecological impacts of the war on drugs (in the Amazon?)

I'm looking for research articles on the supply-side aspects of the US war on drugs--fumigation of crops, socio-ecological effects of drug crop suppression, impacts on local populations--in Colombia, and elsewhere. Thanks, - Ashwani Vasishth[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Fwd: New journal: International Journal of Sustainable Society

>Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 17:25:22 -0800 (PST) >From: Cecilia Ferreyra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [IntSci] New journal: International Journal of Sustainable Society > >Dear Colleagues & Friends: > > I’m pleased to invite you to share critical insights from your research >

News: Europe Attempts to Cut Carbon Emissions Without Cutting Growth

Apropos the idea of a steady state economy. Cheers, - Ashwani Vasishth[EMAIL PROTECTED] (818) 677-6137 http://www.csun.edu/~vasishth/ * * * http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0124/p01s05-woeu.html January 24, 2008 edition Can Europe cut

Kinds of economic growth

elaborates on the idea of "genuine progress indicators" as an alternative to conventional economic metrics such as GDP. Ecological economics has a solid foundation in ecology, and so this is an entirely appropriate policy arena for engagement by the ESA, in my opinion. Cheers, -

Re: ESA and Economic Growth Statement

Greg Davies wrote: > but data such as these are stark & unambiguous, as are the principals we > derive from basic population dynamics. > Garrett Hardin's work on the "tragedy of the commons" is derived from principles of "basic population dynamics," for instance, and is completely mistaken wh

Ontogeny, phylogeny, growth, development, and throughput growth

Growth is a complicated word. After all, we all know that we do grow. In many ways, and throughout our lives. So growth is good too. (Personally, I hope ESA DOES grow--in many ways. But not in others.) The classic distinction in sustainability planning is between growth and development. G

Re: Population, Consumption and Economic Growth

Ganter, Philip F. wrote: > I am always confused by the message in stating the inequality between > consumption between the developed and developing economies. > Whether one goes to Ehrlich & Commoner's I=P*A*T or to Robert Kates' "Population, Technology and the Human Environment: A Thread Th

Re: ESA, Economic Growth, better metrics, ESA leadership

At 04:42 PM -0500 1/18/08, Dan Fiscus wrote: > a quote from the book, "A >Prosperous Way Down: Principles and Policies", by Howard and >Elizabeth Odum (2001) > There's an article as well, titled The Prosperous Way Down. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V2S-4CVRKBT-6&_user

News: Biofuels May Not Provide Expected Cuts In CO2 Emissions

>To: Environmental Ecology News <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >From: Yahoo Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 05:23:55 -0800 >Subject: News: Biofuels May Not Proves Expected Cuts In CO2 Emissions http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/jan/14/biofuels.energy Biofuels may not deliver CO2 c

Fwd: Survey - major challenges to biodiversity

>From: Cathryn Wild <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 17:43:52 + >Subject: [NA] Keystone Center national listening project - survey of major > challenges to biodiversity, opportuniti > >Message posted on behalf of Ed Moreno of the Keystone Center > >Dear Frie

Activism: Focus the Nation - Hold A Teach-in On Climate Change

>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Focus the Nation: Humanity needs your leadership / Learn more on > Weds Call >Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:33:17 -0800 > Dear Friends, Scientists announced last week that=20 within=20 five years, the Arctic m

Supporting efforts to promote the use of native plants

fer to run a workshop, for instance.) And I have found that there is a whole hidden (if microcosmic) world of activist effort and dedicated commitment in many parts of the country--folks that would dearly welcome the additional participation of those savvy in ecology. Cheers, - Ashwani

Exponential growth in human populations

nets Curve. Exponential growth in human populations is an artifact of scale, it seems to me. Cheers, - Ashwani Vasishth[EMAIL PROTECTED] (818) 677-6137 http://www.csun.edu/~vasishth/ http://www.myspace.com/ashwanivasishth >

Re: ecological "footprint", 3rd world vs. 1st world

of the innate abilities of First Worlders--many of whom have come from the Third World, mind (what does it mean to be American, any way?)--is perhaps at least unfair. Boundaries and scales are relevant here as well. Cheers, - Ashwani Vasishth[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Prophet of Climate Change: James Lovelock

rs. Freedom to choose is precious, but works only if we pay the full cost of our choices. Cheers, - Ashwani Vasishth[EMAIL PROTECTED] (818) 677-6137 http://www.csun.edu/~vasishth/ http://www.myspace.com/ashwanivasishth >Ashwani, &g

Re: Prophet of Climate Change: James Lovelock

Lovelock's "prediction" is at least one informed speculation on potential planetary futures. (Personally, I think he will be "proven" wrong, but at least he will be deeply wrong, rather than merely wrong.} Cheers, - Ashwani Vasishth[EMAIL PROTECTED]

News: Childhood Exposure to DDT Linked to Breast Cancer Later In Life

[The Abstract from the research article is=20 appended below the news story excerpt.] * * * http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-ddt30sep30,0,3451847.st= ory Study suggests DDT, breast cancer link Exposure in childhood is key, quintupling=20 the risk among women with hi

News: DDT Returns to Africa, After All

["It's already happened in Ghana, Burkina Faso=20 and other countries in west Africa, where farmers=20 have reportedly been illegally spraying DDT on=20 rice and cotton fields. In Nigeria, experts=20 suspect that tons of unregulated, often homemade,=20 chemical cocktails of uncertain quality are be

Re: DDT question

s.cfm Cheers, - Ashwani Vasishth[EMAIL PROTECTED] (818) 677-6137 http://www.csun.edu/~vasishth/ http://www.myspace.com/ashwanivasishth At 11:21 AM -0400 9/2/07, Brian Todd

Re: DDT question

to the cost in human lives.) Read Crawford Holling's article at http://www.csun.edu/~vasishth/Holling+Ecology_and_Planning.pdf. Cheers, - Ashwani Vasishth[EMAIL PROTECTED] (818) 677-6137 http://www.csun.edu/~

Re: The theory of evolution does not threaten the notion of God

removed from the emergence of humans just would not hack it, within any of the institutional religions. Cheers, - Ashwani Vasishth[EMAIL PROTECTED] (818) 677-6137 http://www.csun.edu/~vasishth/ http://www.myspace.com/ashwanivasishth

Re: DDT and malaria management

I had put together a bibliography of material pertaining to DDT and malaria, from a malaria management perspective. http://www.csun.edu/~vasishth/DDT+Malaria-biblio.htm Cheers, - Ashwani Vasishth[EMAIL PROTECTED] (818) 677-6137 http://www.csun.edu

Re: Mosquito control, DDT etc. - boundaries and scales

can do is to act as a counter-weight in an effort to balance the whole. That's the price for having learned to think ecologically. Cheers, - Ashwani Vasishth[EMAIL PROTECTED] (818) 677-6137 http://www.csun.edu/~vasishth/ http://

Re: Mosquito control, DDT etc. - boundaries and scales

umb to malaria each year. We must indeed act forcefully to check this manageable disease, but we must act in a way that takes account of ecological context and ecospheric consequence. Cheers, - Ashwani Vasishth[EMAIL PROTECTED] (818) 677-6137 ht

Re: ECOLOGY How to Help the Ecosystem Succeed? Re: How to Succeed in Ecology session in San Jose

oes. Cheers, - Ashwani Vasishth[EMAIL PROTECTED] (818) 677-6137 http://www.csun.edu/~vasishth/ http://www.myspace.com/ashwanivasishth

Fwd: EPA Invites Public Comment on Design of Nanotechnology Stewardship Program

Not my field, but it seems to me this might be of=20 interest to the Ecolog-L membership. Cheers, - Ashwani Vasishth[EMAIL PROTECTED] (818) 677-6137 http://www.csun.edu/~vasishth/ http://www.myspace.com/ashwanivasishth >Date:

Commentary: Why Do Some People Resist Science?

WHY DO SOME PEOPLE RESIST SCIENCE? By Paul Bloom and Deena Skolnick Weisberg ...In sum, the developmental data suggest that resistance to science will arise in children when scientific claims clash with early emerging, intuitive expectations. This resistance will persist through adulthood if th

Re: interesting report on fungi using melanin to metabolize radiation (Chernobyl)

http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/may2007/2007-05-23-09.asp#anchor6 Radiation-Eating Fungi Found BRONX, New York, May 23, 2007 (ENS) - Researchers=20 at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine have=20 discovered that fungi that have the ability to=20 use radioactivity as an energy source for making

Re: News: Conservatives Split Over Darwin and Evolution

tions are distinct from "how" and "why" questions. Cheers, - Ashwani Vasishth[EMAIL PROTECTED] (818) 677-6137 http://www.csun.edu/~vasishth/ http://www.myspace.com/ashwanivasishth

News: Conservatives Split Over Darwin and Evolution

brace of intelligent design - not to mention creationism, which takes a literal view of the Bible's Book of Genesis - that has led conservative opponents to speak out for fear their ideology will be branded as out of touch and anti-science. [...] Cheers, - Ashwani Vasishth

Survey on Environmental Planning Techniques/Concepts

>From: Ayman Ismail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Survey on Environmental Planning >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 13:29:59 +0300 > >...I kindly ask your assistance in sending out=20 >this short opinion poll to as many planners and=20 >e-groups you know of (with return email to

Re: Equilibrium/Steady State and Complexity/Evolution

owth_Reports-biblio.htm, or use >Wikipedia.) Cheers, - Ashwani Vasishth[EMAIL PROTECTED] (818) 677-6137 http://www.csun.edu/~vasishth/ http://www.myspace.com/ashwanivasishth At 02:04 PM -0700 4/7/07, Warren W. Aney wrote: >As I un

Re: Equilibrium/Steady State and Complexity/Evolution

th. I=PAT is only the tip of that particular iceberg. Read Robert Kates, "Population, Technology and the Human Environment: A Thread Through Time," in that 1996 issue of Daedalus I mentioned. Carrying capacity has always been at least plastic and perhaps entirely organic. We don'

Considering growth, and inertia

's a horror on that path too. Regards, - Ashwani Vasishth[EMAIL PROTECTED] (818) 677-6137 http://www.csun.edu/~vasishth/ http://www.myspace.com/ashwanivasishth

Re: Equilibrium/Steady State and Complexity/Evolution

onary Progress. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Cheers, - Ashwani Vasishth[EMAIL PROTECTED] (818) 677-6137 http://www.csun.edu/~vasishth/ http://www.myspace.com/ashwanivasishth

Re: Crisitunity

her characters signifying danger and opportunity. A whole cottage industry has grown up around this notion. Turns out to be a more complicated story after all. Run a search in Google for , or take a look at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_translation_of_crisis Cheers,

Re: George Monbiot on Biofuels

g picture stuff. But only because it allows me to rethink my own detailed world. The think ecologically, I find, is to consider context richly, and to trace consequences across levels of organization. Cheers, - Ashwani Vasishth[EMAIL PROTECTED] (818) 677-6137

Re: George Monbiot on Biofuels

asively. As usual, the diatribists have the day. Cheers, - Ashwani Vasishth[EMAIL PROTECTED] (818) 677-6137 http://www.csun.edu/~vasishth/ http://www.myspace.com/ashwanivasishth * * * Bibliography: The Liberation of the Enviro

Re: George Monbiot on Biofuels

rom the ecology community out there in a clear, simple and loud voice? As matters stand, we're all chasing our own private Idahos, so to speak. Cheers, - Ashwani Vasishth[EMAIL PROTECTED] (818) 677-6137 http://www.csun.edu/~vasish

Re: ENERGY Sustainability Biofuels REQUIRED READING FOR EVERY ECOLOGIST? Re: George Monbiot on Biofuels

See also an op-ed by Tilman and Hill, at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/23/AR2007032301625.html?reload=true At 05:45 PM -0800 3/29/07, Wayne Tyson wrote: >Thank you, Cara. > >Is there anyone on this list who can refute the essential points made in this >articl

Fwd: Re: Ocean Level Rising - watching campfires, observing the Sun

evel of organization. As for the Al Gore dig, well, as we have seen, there's nothing in the books that tells us that first hand knowledge is necessarily superior to second or third hand knowledge. Savvy tells savvy. Cheers, - Ashwani Vasishth[EMAIL PROTECTED] (818) 677-6137 http://www.csun.edu/~vasishth/

Re: Consumer Choice & the Environment

the summer; go as close to vegetarian as you can. Its not very complicated, though hardly easy. Cheers, - Ashwani Vasishth[EMAIL PROTECTED] (818) 677-6137 http://www.csun.edu/~vasishth/

Re: forests & ecosystem services, etc

Some suggestions from a different list. Cheers, - Ashwani Vasishth[EMAIL PROTECTED] (818) 677-6137 http://www.csun.edu/~vasishth/ * * * Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 08:43:06 -0700 From: "Kuhn, Nicholas T." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subjec

Feature: The Wedge Game Helps Make Complex Problems More Tractable

This may be of interest to those thinking about social decision making under conditions of complexity. Cheers, - Ashwani Vasishth[EMAIL PROTECTED] (818) 677-6137 http://www.csun.edu/~vasishth

News: Rachel Carson On-line Book Club Celebrate's 100th Anniversary

>Subject: [fws-news] RACHEL CARSON ONLINE BOOK CLUB BEGINS IN MARCH >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:52:56 -0500 Contacts: Anne Roy, USFWS National Conservation Training Center, 304-876-73

Fwd: Earth Day Network's Urban Environment Report

>Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 17:30:57 -0500 >From: Julian Agyeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Earth Day Network's Urban Environment Report >Sender: Planning Educators Electronic Mail Network ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Hi folks > >The Urban Environment Report (UER) scores the current environmental >perf

Re: Carbon offsetting - is electricity from coal the same as from wind?

to use market forces to allow people to democratically choose society's direction. We need to internalize all those externalities, and get to a full-cost cradle-to-grave accounting, if we want to use price as a proxy for planning. Cheers, - Ashwani Vasishth[EMAIL PROTE

Feature: Women in Science - food for thought

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/19/science/19women.html?_r=1&ref=science&oref=slogin Women in Science: The Battle Moves to the Trenches By CORNELIA DEAN Published: December 19, 2006 HOUSTON - Since the 1970s, women have surged into science and engineering classes in larger and larger numbers, ev

CFR: Wetland Restoration Project Funding Applications Announced

http://www.lgean.org/html/whatsnew.cfm?id=1136 Applications Now Being Accepted for 5-Star Wetlands Restoration Program The National Association of Counties, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, the Wildlife Habitat Council, in cooperation with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA

Re: ecology as general education

ch. What would each one of us need to know, to make savvy social and policy choices? Maybe more generalist-integrationist scientists need to be seeking out joint appointments in Liberal Studies programs across the nation? I know we'd benefit. Cheers, - Ashwani Vasishth

Resource: Darwin's complete works online

...the University of Cambridge now hosts an open-access web site providing the complete works of Charles Darwin: http://darwin-online.org.uk/ To subscribe to this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/envecolnews/ <*

News: NSF To fund research into Biology's "most challenging questions"

http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=108068 Press Release 06-145 NSF Announces New Awards to Tackle Biology's Most Challenging Questions Grants are part of agency's Frontiers in Integrative Biological Research Program FIBR scientists will study ecology and evolution in Trinidad streams.

Commentaries on science and on evolution

hat she calls "missionary work." Cheers, - Ashwani Vasishth [EMAIL PROTECTED] (818) 677-6137 Department of Urban Studies and Planning, ST 206 California State University, Northridge http://www.csun.edu/~vasishth/

News blurbs: DDT exposure impacts on humans

The following web page has links to some recent studies that explore the impact of DDT on humans and on birds. Cheers, - Ashwani Vasishth [EMAIL PROTECTED] (818) 677-6137 Department of Urban Studies and Planning, ST 206 California State University, Northridge

News: 100 Ecological Questions of High Policy Relevance to the UK

http://draft.britishecologicalsociety.org/articles/publicaffairs/press/pressreleases/100questions/ BRITISH ECOLOGICAL SOCIETY PRESS RELEASE 7 June 2006 Policy makers draw up list of "top 100" ecological questions Environmental policy makers have come up with a list of the "top 100" ecological q

Re: Sustainability Definition

icant (and so, real), and then what we can see of that reality is scale dependent, in very actual ways. So sustainability planning is a decision making process that uses a strategically balanced mix of purposive perspectives, using suitably multiple scales and boundaries. Cheers, - Ashwani

Fwd: History of Extinction in Mexico

In case some one on this list has expertise in this area. Cheers, - Ashwani Vasishth [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~vasishth >Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 06:09:17 -0700 >From: "Adam M. Sowards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject:

[SPAM] CFP: Ecological Restoration (and history)-- A transatlantic workshop

>Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 18:01:35 -0700 >Subject: CFP: "Restoring or Renaturing?"-- A transatlantic workshop >Sender: H-NET List for Environmental History <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Approved-by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >From: Marcus Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: 6 April 2006 Call for

News: Island Nations Face Growing Threat of Invasive Species

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=32901 BIODIVERSITY: Islands - Paradise Invaded Mario Osava RIO DE JANEIRO, Apr 14 (IPS) - Many countries, including Brazil, are only just waking up to the threat that invading species can pose to islands, generally seen as natural paradises and tourist att

Excerpt: Graduate Education for Tropical Conservation and Development

>Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 08:16:55 -0700 >From: Rick Reis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: TP Msg. #713 A GRADUATE EDUCATION FRAMEWORK FOR TROPICAL >CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >List-Subscribe: > , > <

CFP: Ecological Restoration (and history)-- A transatlantic workshop

>Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 18:01:35 -0700 >Subject: CFP: "Restoring or Renaturing?"-- A transatlantic workshop >Sender: H-NET List for Environmental History <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Approved-by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >From: Marcus Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: 6 April 2006 Call for

Re: invasive plants

to be actually useful to conservation action. Cheers, - Ashwani Vasishth [EMAIL PROTECTED] (818) 677-6137 Assistant Professor Department of Urban Studies and Planning, ST 206 California State University, Northridge http://

Re: For Immediate Release: Wetland Mitigation Banking Shortchanges Urban Areas

The research is also available as a working paper at: Ruhl, J.B. and Salzman, James E., "The Effects of Wetland Mitigation Banking on People" (January 2006). FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 179 Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=878331 Cheers, -

Web resources for educational documentaries?

: http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~vasishth/EH+Env+Ecol-Films+Videos.htm Thanks, - Ashwani Vasishth [EMAIL PROTECTED] (818) 677-6137 Assistant Professor Department of Urban Studies and Planning, ST 206 California State University, Northridge

Urban ecology: Rainwater harvesting, bioswales and groundwater recharge?

rainwater harvesting techniques in an urban context. I'd be glad to compile and share the results. Thank you, - Ashwani Vasishth [EMAIL PROTECTED] (818) 677-6137 Assistant Professor Department of Urban Studies and Planning, S

Mulch Warning: Debunking an Internet Hoax

At 11:07 AM -0700 3/7/06, Pepper Provenzano wrote: I forward this message below from the Garden Writers Association to help resolve today's discussion. - Pepper Provenzano Executive Director, TreeLink 68 East Girard Ave Salt Lake City, UT 84103 801-359-1933 [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Naming "an ecosystem of reference"

we choose to name some particular level of organization as the system of reference, from which we would then call off the sub-systems and supra-systems. Any suggestions to literature in ecosystem ecology would be keening appreciated. Thanks, - Ashwani Vasishth [EMAIL PROTECTED

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