Nobel Symposium in Stockholm
I just argued the human role in the Anthropocene with Will Steffen at the 2011 Nobel Laureate Symposium in Stockholm. In a mock court, in front of a jury of Nobelists, I successfully argued that: 1)...
View ArticleThe Anthropocene: spread of an idea
The Anthropocene, the idea that the entire planet has become a social-ecological system, is now being discussed in the mass media. Three recent sightings… 1) The Economist has a feature story A...
View ArticleDammed 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...
View Articleif 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...
View ArticleHans 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...
View ArticleMidwest 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....
View ArticleEarth 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...
View ArticleForty 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...
View ArticlePlanet 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...
View ArticleSeminar 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...
View ArticleDigging the Anthropocene
Human material use has rapidly and massively increased over the past century. This is nicely illustrated in a 2009 paper by Krausmann and others at the Institute of Social Ecology in Vienna. Fig. 1....
View ArticleBruno 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...
View ArticleKim Stanley Robinson on the Anthropocene
Below are an interesting excerpt from an interview of Kim Stanley Robinson, a Californian sustainability oriented science fiction writer, in Boom Magazine. Boom: But, as you’ve said, all of California...
View ArticleMaking Sense of the Anthropocene Debate(s)
by Victor Galaz | @vgalaz Do you find it hard to keep track of ongoing discussions about the Anthropocene? So do I. Part of the reason why it is easy to loose track, is that there is actually not only...
View ArticleSeeds of a Good Anthropocene
My colleagues and I are running an international scientific synthesis experiment that aims to collect example of projects, productions, or initiatives that people believe are examples of “seeds of a...
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