Miscellaneous Supplemental Materials for Geog 3890: Ecological Economics
These
items are funny or interesting or informative or silly. Send me more and I will
post them to this ‘grab bag’ web page.
The earth from space (Astronaut views on sustainability)
Paul
Gilding – The Earth is Full (TED talk)
Peter
Diamandis – Abundance is our Future (TED talk)
End of Civilization
–Anarchist Perspective
John Bellamy Foster –
Monthly Review
Economics in Crisis –
Krugman supports IS-LM model
Jobs & Income Growth of Top
Earners and the
Causes of changing income
inquality: Evidence
Why
we ignore Evidence, Logic, and Reason
Morality and the Free Market
– Michael Sandel
Indonesia’s
most valuable assets: Natural Capital?
Economics
is NOT Natural Science
Things
they don’t tell you about capitalism
The
Paradox of Choice – Barry Schwartz
http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201104120153.htmlOcean Acidification (NYTimes article)
Mushrooms
Save the World? (courtesy of Amanda)
Scrap
and Trash Exports to China (Colbert)
Richard
Dawkins (‘free will is an illusion’)
Overinvesting
in Higher Education
Credit
Default Swaps made simple (NPR this American Life)
U.
S. Oil Import Policy (John Stewart Show montage)
Distribution
of Wealth (Courtesy of Ben Zank)
Burning Ancient Sunshine 400 to
1
The
Last Days of Ancient Sunshine
The Millenium
Ecosystem Assessment
Green
Economics by Paul Krugman
Global Footprint Network
Annual Report
The
Total Value of the World’s Ecosystems
The Value of Coastal Wetlands
for Storm Protection
National Research Council on Ocean
Acidification
Toward
a Sustainable Future by William Ruckelshaus
Technology Quotes (Funny and
insightful)
Ecological Footprint
Calculator Sites
http://www.footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/GFN/page/calculators/
http://myfootprint.org/en/your_carbon_footprint/
http://www.lowimpactliving.com/pages/impact-calculator/impact-calculator
http://www.ecologicalfootprint.com/
http://www.conservation.org/act/live_green/Pages/ecofootprint.aspx