Monthly Archives: June 2008

My first sustainability op-ed

My new friends over at Columbia have just published my editorial on sustainable development for Consilience.
The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries saw the rise of human rights in the European imagination. By any account, human rights were a good idea. But as anyone who was around to witness the French Revolution would be able to attest, [...]

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Embrace your toys, rise to the top

Public discourse in the U.S. about science and technology is impoverished. Our infrastructure is falling apart. We don’t trust our elected officials. How ought we to address these problems?
Recent Arizona State graduate Alex Berger presents on his blog:
The Technological Revolution - why everything must change.
Hold onto your hats, folks, and get ready to ride the [...]

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