For nearly 20 years, I was involved with a project that started in the 1980's with people to people exchanges between educators and psychologists in North America with colleagues in the Soviet Union. We made annual visits and conducted seminar-type sessions with...
Yesterday I used the theme "Meeting of Minds"to focus on the US Congress and its hearing with Al Gore. Today, I would like to play this out one step further, and suggest how the members of the Congressional committees that are responsible for environmental issues and...
Yesterday's blog featured California, Al Gore, and scientific researchers as teachers of green. Today, I want to expand this and include one of the earliest of environmentalists, Stuart Brand. Brand authored a popular and influential book entitled The Whole Earth...
I received an email from Anya Kucharev, Project Director, INTERNEWS INTERACT, Citizen Diplomacy Archive Project. She explained that she was Director of the Citizen Archive Project at Stanford University. She was contacting citizens that were involved in citizen...
The short answer is yes. Here's a longer answer. In 1986, Richard Rhodes published the Pulitzer Prize book, The Making of the Atomic Bomb giving us a sweeping account of the making of the first atomic bomb, including who and how they did it. Image: The Making of the...
I was struck by the breadth with which Elizabeth Kolbert approached the evidence to evaluate the issue of global warming. In her book, one chapter is entitled The Butterfly and the Toad. What could butterfly's and toads have to due with global warming. Here the story...
