Perspectives

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Leadership begins with … character.

December 16, 2010

The October 1 post said we’d get around to the topic of leadership. Well, we’ve arrived! Our starting point? Actually,...

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Cancun

December 14, 2010

Recently, the world’s governments, and a bevy of non-governmental organizations (or NGO’s) concluded yet another two-week round of climate change...

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Strategic planning

December 13, 2010

Once in the late 1970’s I was on a commercial airline flight here in the United States. The passenger next...

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Everyone a problem solver!

December 11, 2010

If 2 are powerful, just think what 233 can do.[1] Often when the conversation turns to the world’s problems, it...

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Social science can be more than a spectator sport.

December 9, 2010

In the previous post, we noted a near-universal tendency to divide people into different categories of “we” and “they.” This...

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Inclusive policies? Inclusion starts with 2.

December 8, 2010

 9 Two are better than one,    because they have a good return for their labor: 10 If either of them...

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Kumbaya? Maybe…we really need to sing it. All of us. Together.

December 6, 2010

What kind of world is likely if we take no deliberate action? Easy to see. A whole bunch of people...

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Why We Need Public Education in Earth Science

December 1, 2010

by William Hooke, AMS Policy Program Director. From the AMS project, Living on the Real World Early in the Bush...

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Diplomatic Wikileaks? University of East Anglia’s CRU on the Big Screen

November 30, 2010

For the past few days, media have been agog with the latest revelations from Wikileaks: about a quarter-million diplomatic e-mails...

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Living Well on the Real World? Public education in Earth science holds the key.

November 29, 2010

Early in the Bush administration, sometime during the winter of 2001-2002, I got to sit in on a remarkable conversation....

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