Maize: the Plant that Colonized the World
Here’s a seminar next week at the UBC Museum of Anthropology. It’s a suggested $5 donation but that includes the price of admission (and students with…
Read articleUnsung Heroes
On a blustery day in the windy season, I walked out to my study plot in the tropical cloud forest of Monteverde, Costa Rica. For the…
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THE TRAP OF PROGRESS
RONALD WRIGHT – DEC 6th, 2006
Quicktime 7 Required “The Trap of Progress” (Dec 6th, 2006 Rotary Centre for the Arts’ Mary Irwin Theatre in downtown Kelowna) VIDEO (~80Mb) – – –…
Read articleHan Solo and Chewbacca Weigh in on their New Hybrid Millennium Falcon
HS: Well, so far, it seems like it’s a pretty good thing. Me, I’m not too up on the technology, but Chewie is pretty good at…
Read articleSENSibility 3: Time for an Extinction Clock?
Earlier this month the World Conservation Union identified more than 16,000 species threatened with extinction. Prospects for survival improved for exactly one species on the planet…
Read articleMe, plant genomics, and North China.
Well, I’m off to north China next week, although unlike Nigeria, it sounds like I’ll be wired in and still able to contribute to the blog.…
Read articleOld MacDonald Had a Farm, so Does UBC
The Trek to the farm may be long, but on a nice fall sunny day, when the wind is blowing and the leaves are falling, hop…
Read articleGreen Drinks on Campus
For networking and random chatting about all things green on campus, check this out (you’ll notice that the event on the poster has already occurred, but…
Read articleVisual number crunching: a graphic look at what we waste.
Allen’s earlier post on the issue of “waste”, reminded me of an interesting art exhibit I read about at my blog. Here we have Chris Jordan,…
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SENSibility 4: Gore’s Film has Nine Errors (But Students can Still Watch It)
By Allen Sens,
A British High Court judge has ruled that Al Gore’s climate film, An Inconvenient Truth, contains nine “scientific errors.” According to Justice Burton, the nine “errors”…
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