Perspectives
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...
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...
AMS Programs, Perspectives
Why We Need Public Education in Earth Science
by William Hooke, AMS Policy Program Director. From the AMS project, Living on the Real World Early in the Bush...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Diplomatic Wikileaks? University of East Anglia’s CRU on the Big Screen
For the past few days, media have been agog with the latest revelations from Wikileaks: about a quarter-million diplomatic e-mails...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Living Well on the Real World? Public education in Earth science holds the key.
Early in the Bush administration, sometime during the winter of 2001-2002, I got to sit in on a remarkable conversation....
