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Bruno Latour thinks about the Anthropocene
Bruno Latour‘s Gifford Lectures Facing Gaia: A new enquiry into Natural Religion, which were given at University of Edinburgh over the last few months are now on the web. Lecture 1: ‘Once Out of Nature’ – natural religion as a pleonasm Lecture 2: A … Continue reading
Seminar on Role of Design in Anthropocene @ Konstfack, Stockholm – updated
For readers near Stockholm. I’ll be speaking Jan 14th at a seminar on design in the Anthropocene at Konstfack, the University College of Arst, Crafts, and Design in Stockholm. I’ll give a talk “Co-Creating the Anthropocene: What are some possible … Continue reading
Planet Under Pressure: Understanding the Anthropocene
The above video on the Anthropocene was created for the Planet Under Pressure global change and sustainability conference in London, UK, which starts today, March 26th, and continues to the 29th. The movie is: A 3-minute journey through the last … Continue reading
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Tagged anthropocene, conference, global change, London, planet under pressure, sustainability
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Forty years of Limits to Growth
The first presentation of the influential environmentalist book Limits to Growth was on March 1 in 1972 at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, four decades ago. The study was both hugely influential and hugely controversial, and the authors were quite … Continue reading
Earth from space
A beautiful video that shows the extent of human activity over the Earth’s surface. Earth | Time Lapse View from Space | Fly Over | Nasa, ISS from Michael König on Vimeo. Time lapse sequences of photographs taken with a … Continue reading
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Midwest US in Anthropocene
From the Guardian: The night skies illuminated with light from many sources. For example, the midwestern United States has a night-time appearance not unlike a patchwork quilt when viewed from orbit. The artificial light from human settlements appears with a … Continue reading
Hans Joachim Schellnhuber wins 2011 Volvo prize
Hans Joachim Schellnhuber has won this year’s Volvo environmental prize for his contributions to earth system science and policy. Resilience science has mentioned his work previously, especially his work on tipping points in the earth system. The prize committee writes: … Continue reading
if history = people x years
From Two thousand years in one chart | The Economist. SOME people recite history from above, recording the grand deeds of great men. Others tell history from below, arguing that one person’s life is just as much a part of … Continue reading
Dammed Anthropocene
James Syvitski a geology professor at the University of Colorado created this 200-year compilation of dams built in the USA. He used it to illustrated his talk on the age of the human-shaped Earth at the Geological Society of London … Continue reading