Student Health and Climate Awareness: We Can Have Both (Inside Higher Ed)
Educators can help students transform climate anxiety into meaningful action
The World’s Most Eco-Friendly Countries (and What They’re Doing Right) (Newsweek).
Opinion: California Shouldn’t Ban Recreational Biking to Fight Coronavirus (Times of San Diego)
A number of European governments enacted bike bans during the pandemic to reduce use of intensive care wards following acccidents. The data show that inadquate exercise places a much larger burden on ICUs than do accidents from cycling.
The Chaos Factor (Geographical – The Magazine of the Royal Geographical Society)
There’s a need to take political instability around the world far more seriously when devising strategies for protecting our planet
Ways to Look at Trees (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
The Secret to Saving the World (Salon.com)
Poor Countries Commit to Climate Treaty, So Why Won’t the GOP? (Huffington Post)
As the Republican Party assumes control of Congress, one of their top priorities is to roll back the Obama administration’s recent advances in energy and climate policy. Climate change has long been a favorite target of GOP leaders like Oklahoma Senator Jim Inhofe, who downplay the science and exaggerate the costs of reducing our reliance on fossil fuels. Republicans have justified their opposition to a climate treaty by claiming that American efforts will be undermined if developing countries refuse to commit to controls on greenhouse gasses.
Campaign Against Gas Tax Is Foolhardy (Sacramento Bee)
Lecture – Institutions and Social Order
Institutions: they’re invisible. You can’t touch them. Yet they shape every aspect of our lives
Paul Steinberg discusses environmental leadership on WAMC Radio’s Academic Minute
There was a time when US officials had to convince the Europeans to protect the ozone layer. But these days, while the European Union races ahead in developing innovative policies to promote sustainability, America’s political leaders resemble a bird stuck in an oil slick.
Black and Green
In a welcome departure from the stereotypical image of environmentalism (think Birkenstock-clad white male), the conservationist-in-chief is African American. In fact, President Obama is only the most visible example of environmental leadership by people of color that has gone unrecognized for far too long.
It Takes a Nation to Save a Planet
The image of the earth viewed from outer space holds a special place in our collective imagination. But it takes a nation to save a planet. The really big decisions – transportation infrastructure, energy incentives, agricultural policy – are decided one country at a time in the nearly 200 nations that rule the Earth.
Lecture at UC Berkeley’s Center for Latin American Studies, April 12, 2010 – Surviving the Storm: Environmental Policy Reform in Unstable Political Systems
Most of the world’s countries are subject to chronic political and economic upheaval. Revolutions, coups, breakaway republics, hyperinflation, civil wars, state collapse, and constitutional crises occur with regularity in developing and post-communist countries. Yet effective environmental governance requires cumulative institution-building over a period of decades and even centuries. How can we achieve sustainability in political systems that are themselves unsustainable?
INVITED LECTURES
American University, School of International Service
Brown University, Watson Institute for International Studies
Cambridge University, Department of Geography
Claremont McKenna College, International Place
Conservation International, Center for Applied Biodiversity Science
Duke University, Sanford Institute of Public Policy
Engineers for a Sustainable World
George Mason University, Department of Public and International Affairs
Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government
Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies
Monterey Institute of International Studies
Pitzer College, Environmental Studies Field Group
Pitzer College, Firestone Center for Restoration Ecology (Dominical, Costa Rica)
Pomona College, Environmental Analysis Program
Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden
TEDx, City of Industry
University of California at Berkeley, Dept. Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
University of California at Berkeley, Goldman School of Public Policy
University of California at Berkeley, Center for Latin American Studies
University of California at Irvine, School of Social Ecology
University of California at Riverside, Department of Political Science
University of California at Santa Barbara, Political Science Department
University of California at Santa Barbara, Environmental Studies Program
University of California at Santa Cruz, Environmental Studies Department
University of Colorado at Boulder, Political Science Department
University of Maryland at College Park, School of Public Affairs
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Public Policy
University of Redlands, Environmental Studies Department
University of Southern California, Political Science Department
US Greeen Building Council – Los Angeles
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Department of Urban Affairs and Planning
Winrock International
World Wildlife Fund – U.S.
Yale University, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies