Articles by Kif Scheuer

Opportunity to chew the environmental fat with Shellenberger

Lewis & Clark (the school, not the explorers) is putting on its annual Environmental Affairs Symposium, October 2-4. The theme this year is: "Beyond Environmentalism? Debating New Ideas and Strategies."

Michael Shellenberger, of "Death of Environmentalism" infamy, will be there. I got an email inviting "college faculty, undergraduate students, and environmental professionals from the region" to propose a talk on one of six topics.

Sounds like good fun if you're in the Portland area. More information follows ...

Good news! Green views renew you! EBN reviews the how-tos.

Environmental Building News has an article up on integrating biophilia into green building practices.

Biophilia is a notion popularized by biologist E. O. Wilson. It describes humans' innate affiliation for the natural world. Biophilia attempts to define "the connections that human beings subconsciously seek with the rest of life."

The thrust of the article is that biophilia is an underdeveloped element of green building practices, but one that has significant potential benefits.

Database of sustainability communication projects

The United Nations Environment Program must have been listening to all the Grist chatter (here and here) about how to communicate environmental issues, because they have just launched the Creative Gallery on Sustainability Communications, described as the ...

Can you say misguided?

NYT today reports on the rise? emergence? rediscovery? of geoengineering options to combat global warming.

For me this stuff falls into the category of bad adaptation strategies; wait until we're really SOL and then spend gobs of money on big techy solutions that may not work, but look cool.

There's plenty more critique to be had in the article itself.