Tag Archives: video

Community resilience after an earthquake

Posted on June 30, 2011 by Garry Peterson

Disasters have complex effects on communities. Love in a Little Town is short film about community resilience made by James Muir. He writes: “Lyttelton is the port for Christchurch City, New Zealand, that was devastated by an earthquake in February … Continue reading →

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Evoking Climate Change’s Systemic Risks

Posted on June 9, 2011 by Garry Peterson

Stephen Thomson of Plonomedia.com remixed 350.org climate activist Bill McKibben‘s popular sarcastic recent Washington Post op-ed “A link between climate change and Joplin Tornadoes? Never!” into a video that is more gripping than the article. McKibben is being sarcastic for … Continue reading →

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Links: ECloud, wikipedia, housing bubble, Vaclav Smil, CO2, and ice

Posted on June 6, 2011 by Garry Peterson

Recent links that I liked. 1) Video of ECloud sculpture at San Jose airport. 2) Academics working with wikipedia from Chronicle of Higher Education. 3) Interactive graph of Case-Schiller house price index for 20 cities in USA, showing the continued … Continue reading →

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Bicycles and the city

Posted on May 31, 2011 by Garry Peterson

Many cities are investing in bicycle infrastructure such as expanded bike lanes or subsidized bicycle sharing programs, and this is increasing bicycle traffic. InfraNet Lab blog writes that in Montreal and New York City ridership has increase about 30% since … Continue reading →

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Is a Good Anthropocene Possible?

Posted on May 18, 2011 by Garry Peterson

Will Steffen and I gave contrasting talks in a Mock Court on the meaning of the Anthropocene at the 3rd Nobel Laureate Symposium on Global Sustainability in Stockholm.  The talks are now online, along with other talks from the symposium … Continue reading →

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Resilience 2011 slides and videos

Posted on May 4, 2011 by Garry Peterson

Slides and videos for keynote and invited speaker presentations at Resilience 2011 are now available online. Video: Alan AtKisson Pam Matson Marten Scheffer Elinor Ostrom Carlo Jaeger John Finnigan Chuck Redman Bert de Vries Brian Walker Nils Ferrand Oran Young … Continue reading →

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Steve Carpenter wins Stockholm Water Prize

Posted on March 22, 2011 by Garry Peterson

Big congratulations to my former post-doc advisor Steve Carpenter on winning the 2011  Stockholm Water Prize.  It is well deserved as Steve has done a huge amount of really innovative work on ecosystem dynamics, ecological economics, large scale ecosystem experiments,  … Continue reading →

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Steven Johnson on the source of good ideas

Posted on March 7, 2011 by Garry Peterson

Two short videos by science writer Steven Johnson on his book Where good ideas come from: the natural history of innovation. An animated promotional video for his book: And him giving a TED talk. Steve Johnson has posted some of … Continue reading →

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Early registration for Resilience 2011 ends with 2010

Posted on December 30, 2010 by Garry Peterson

A reminder, early registration for Resilience 2011 conference at Arizona State University in the USA ends Dec 31st, 2010. Below, Sander van der Leeuw, Dean of ASU’s School of Sustainability, welcomes people to the Resilience 2011 conference. Welcome Resilience 2011 … Continue reading →

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Resilience and Regime Shift videos

Posted on December 13, 2010 by Garry Peterson

Kit Hill a Masters student at the Stockholm Resilience Centre made the three short videos below to introduce the concept of resilience and the idea of a regime shift. Resilience from Kit Hill on Vimeo. Beating Down Resilience from Kit … Continue reading →

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