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Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Presidential transition? Time to show spine.
“To thine own self be true” – Shakespeare (Polonius’ advice to Hamlet) “Plans are nothing. Planning is everything” – Dwight...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Recent environmental intelligence. Part 5. Will the world of the future lack spine?
As documented so far in this LOTRW mini-series, environmental intelligence from the past several weeks has told us that: when...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Giving Thanks? It’s not only an end. It’s also a beginning.
As always, Thanksgiving promises a cornucopia. But this year the bounty is more than the abundant dinner-table spread. It extends...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Giving Thanks? It’s what we do. What we’ve always done.
The post that immediately follows says a bit about the history of Thanksgiving, picking up the thread in 1621 with...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Lacking the needed environmental intelligence – will we build $26 Trillion of pipes to nowhere?
“When the well’s dry, we know the worth of water.” – Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), Poor Richard’s Almanac, 1746 The November...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
The successful launch of GOES-R… and the resilience of Cushing, OK.
Don’t put all your eggs in one basket! Age-old investment advice dating at least to the 17th century. Do put...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Recent environmental intelligence. Part 2. Air pollution and kids.
We know that air pollution, which takes many forms, including fine particulates, poses risks for all life on earth. But...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Matthew? It’s not the hurricane, it’s the vulnerability.
The previous three LOTRW posts took up the topic of environmental intelligence – addressing, tangentially, the state of the environmental...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Environmental intelligence, and the National Sea Grant Program at 50.
Start with this: environmental intelligence[1] faces two big challenges in the 21st century. The first is scientific/technical. The second is...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
20th Biennial Joint AMS/AGU Heads and Chairs Meeting 13 – 14 October 2016 Boulder, CO
Dave Jones is a leading figure in the Weather Enterprise (in fact, the reach of his innovation and influence extends...
