Author Archive

Blogging As A Two-Way Street

Andrew Revkin “You can learn more about my approach in a “Research Chat” I did with John Wihbey for Journalist’s Resource, a project of Harvard University’s Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. My post on “Reliable Sources in an Age of Too Much Information” may also be helpful.

“…I’m a self-described selfish blogger. I use my posts to learn, to test my preconceptions, to be inspired by fresh views I would never encounter without the marvel of Web connectedness.”

So Much Fun. So Irrelevant.

As usual Tom Friedman’s ideas stimulate thought and diverse reactions – reading the comments on this article illustrate so very well how others see the past, present and future so very differently depending on their circumstances, experiences, values, ideology, worldview etc. What should a progressive sustainability planner do?

Someone Else With A Weird Career

Mathematics plus people leadership skills, a very powerful combination

Feeling Overweight? Want to Reduce? You Must Read This

The Fat Trap

Responsive Design: The New Wave of Web Development

The Web Revolution That Started in Your Pants

The Technology Behind Boston.Globe.com

The Multiverse: Really, Really Big Questions for Planning Theorists

Really, Really Big Questions

& Are planning theorists and practitioners seeing each other in the same ways theoretical and experimental physicists are coming to perceive one another in the Multiverse? The Accidental Universe: Science’s Crisis of Faith

Knocking on Heaven’s Door by Lisa Randall

The Old Order Changeth

It would be interesting to take a similarly irreverent look at the agendas for many planning conferences.

Leadership Lessons from the Shackleton Expedition

Implications for UBC, CFIS, SCARP, IRES, PIBC/CIP and beyond

The Muses of Insert, Delete and Execute

NYT article on the impact of word processors on writing. I began writing my first typewritten book on a computer with the first Mac in 1984 – Bargaining in the Governance of Pacific Coastal Resources, published in 1986. Taught myself to type at the same time using a software program that ran on the Mac. Prior to that all my books were handwritten and then typed by one of the Westwater secretaries, beginning with The Uncertain Future of the Lower Fraser published in 1976.

Outstanding Reading Resources

Now that I am retired, I am much more free to read what I like, whenever I want to. So I am interested in more easily locating the good reads that are free or near-free on the web.

Courtesy of David Brooks column in today’s NYT I have stumbled across 3 great reading resources that include each of the sites I already visit on a daily or periodic basis and many, many more:

Just from a quick look at each I immediately got drawn in to three very interesting reads:
The Kiss from Longform
Note the resource sites provide simple options for saving to read later on all kinds of devices (e.g. iPad) and using varied software (e.g. InstaPaper).