Converting EpiAnalysis for new media. As part of ongoing efforts to support MOOCs. While our older posts will remain available on this website, our newer effort will allow us to more flexibly discuss ongoing epidemiology controversies, new research and data, and analytical approaches.

The rest of the story on food, farming and biotechnology. As stories about GM crops in developing countries unfold, I continue to be struck by how very different each case is. Despite the desire for simple global narratives of success or failure, the crops differ, the transgenic traits differ, the problems to be solved differ, the cultures differ, and the issues differ. For many years there has been publicity.

Academic work, ultimately, is all about good ideas. But how do you know an idea is truly yours? But first some ideas. A nice hierarchical survey design of nested triangles was used by me and my co-authors in a 2004 paper.

New paper in Ecology and Society. Backlog of articles and presentations posted. Two articles in Permaculture Activist theme issue.

A website aimed at promoting entrepreneurial approaches to conserving nature. Regular readers know that I believe we need more entrepreneurship in conservation. Furthermore, Startup for Nature. Also features in the poster.

Conservation for the 21st century. But Monbiot is a relative latecomer to the rewilding party in the UK. Its doyenne is the British Association for Nature Conservation, BANC. Has been planting and watering ideas about the wild in conservation, and how to get more of it.

A collaborative writing project on Political Ecology. Carta al Vicepresidente Álvaro García Linera. Intelectuales latinoamericanos defienden las ONGs amenazadas de expulsión por criticar al gobierno boliviano desde la izquierda. Water policies and development narratives in Central Asia.

Tia Marta here with important news something I was planning to share with you next. Here it is our staghorn cholla cacti flowered.

Thursday, August 13, 2015. I identified four points of contention in my turbulent relationship with academia. It seems like an oxymoron, academics with work-life balance? If a balanced person becomes an academic,. The truth is that this photo was taken for Grist. After I won a survival kit including some juice.