I received an email from Anya Kucharev, who I met in 1983 on the first AHP-Soviet-North America Exchange Project trip to the U.S.S.R. Kucharev was known as the "cross-cultural Sherpa" for her work as a guide and interpreter during the Soviet-American citizen...
EcoJustice, Citizen Science and Youth Activism (Library Copy) is the title of a new book edited by Michael P. Mueller, University of Alaska, and Deborah J. Tippins, University of Georgia. It's the first in the new Springer Book Series Environmental Discourses in...
This is a reblog from the Moyers & Company website. It's an article written by John Light that I've reblogged here as a follow up the May 7th post entitled Extreme Earth: Coming to an Environment Near You. The National Climate Assessment Says We’re in Trouble....
The Earth's climate has changed rapidly over the past fifty years, but when people talk about climate change, they frame it as a future threat. David Popeik, in Scientific American guest blog, says that "climate report nails risk communication." He suggests that the...
Latest Story An article in the New York Times by William J. Broad got my attention and in this article, I want to use Broad's research to show how education is being harmed by private funding. The article by William J. Broad is entitled Billionaires with big ideas are...
On March 5, Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead signed the state's budget into law. The bill has a footnote that prohibits the Department of Education from spending any funds to check or revise the state's science standards. The reason this footnote was added to the Wyoming...
