“There are big problems in the world. I excel at science and math. Engineers solve problems.” These three ideas determined my choice of undergrad program. I was going to learn what I needed to use technology to solve climate change and poverty. In my words of the time, […]
(This blog post is adapted from a presentation given at the May 2018 Economics for the Ecozoic symposium and the July 2018 CANSEE Grad Student Research Symposium.) Upton Sinclair, the famous “muckraker” of the gilded age, used to say, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his […]
The E4A Food Justice cohort attended this course as their field course requirement. The ALC team recently concluded the first offering of PSS 311: Introduction to Agroecology, the first course of our Certificate of Graduate Study in Agroecology (CGSA). We had a great crew of 11 participants, from the […]
Attending the Research Agenda for Ecological Economics workshop this week has underscored some ideas that have been developing for us over the past months and years. We would like to spark a conversation about group dynamics that manifest even here in our progressive community. For Ecological Economics to […]
