Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Leadership begins with … character.
The October 1 post said we’d get around to the topic of leadership. Well, we’ve arrived! Our starting point? Actually,...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Cancun
Recently, the world’s governments, and a bevy of non-governmental organizations (or NGO’s) concluded yet another two-week round of climate change...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Strategic planning
Once in the late 1970’s I was on a commercial airline flight here in the United States. The passenger next...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Everyone a problem solver!
If 2 are powerful, just think what 233 can do.[1] Often when the conversation turns to the world’s problems, it...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Social science can be more than a spectator sport.
In the previous post, we noted a near-universal tendency to divide people into different categories of “we” and “they.” This...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Inclusive policies? Inclusion starts with 2.
9 Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: 10 If either of them...
Video Whirls Thru Hyperactive Hurricane Season
NOAA recently posted its annual video compilation of the entire 2010 Atlantic hurricane season, and it’s impressive. Crammed into just...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Kumbaya? Maybe…we really need to sing it. All of us. Together.
What kind of world is likely if we take no deliberate action? Easy to see. A whole bunch of people...
A New Way to Brighten AMS Meetings
Upon former Executive Director Ken Spengler’s death this summer, Andy White commented in The Front Page, “Ken made me feel...
Competing for Climate's Sake
Secretary of Energy Steven Chu says that Americans are having a new “Sputnik” moment. Now that China is moving full...
