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Lecturing for Semester at Sea Enrichment Voyages

This semester break I have the great privilege of serving as a lecturer on the Dec-Jan Enrichment Voyage through the Panama Canal. I will be speaking on resource policy in Latin America, Ecotourism, and my research on Ecological Handprints. We start in the Bahamas and head on to Jamaica, Colombia, Panama (and through the canal), Ecuador, Peru, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Mexico and finally San Diego. I will join a group of lecturers from around the world, including some well known folks like Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and civil rights activist Julian Bond. My family and I are thrilled to cast off together for what will no doubt be an amazing experience. Maybe one day you'll join us?! Meanwhile, here are two pictures of our floating campus known as the MV Explorer..

Huffington Post Blog/Interview on Ecological Handprints

I just did an interview with Alan Briskin on Ecological Handprints for the Huffington Post. It serves as a focal piece to present the idea of a collective wisdom. As a teaser, below you'll find the introduction and then the link to the interview.

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Decades ago, Woody Allen remarked that the human race faced a choice between sudden mass extinction on the one hand or a slow, painful decline into warfare and the degradation of nature. He hoped the human race would have the wisdom to choose.

Are you laughing yet? There may be a third choice.

Human well-being and nature's well-being are inextricably linked. Both the soul and the soil must be nurtured for life to have meaning, generativity, and significance. Yet too often we live with notions of scarcity, that there is not enough or that competing priorities necessitate painful sacrifices.

Dr. Rocky Rohwedder is a professor of environmental science and currently chair of environmental studies at Sonoma State University. In the past few years, he has traveled around the world looking for alternatives to the kinds of fatalistic choices Allen foretold.

For Rocky, this is no laughing matter, but neither is it all about doom and gloom.

To find out what I said, here's the link to the full article and my answers to his thought-provoking questions.

TED Talk is LIVE

My TEDx talk on "Ecological Handprints: Lifting Humanity While Lowering Our Footprint" has just hit YouTube.

You can access it via Facebook at the Ecological Handprints site

Or directly via YouTube

No notes, bullet points, 3X5 cards, or teleprompter. True to the TED style, it's just me, a stage, and 17 minutes to tell the story of this idea worth spreading.
I hope you'll give it a watch and share it with others.

TED Talk: Ecological Handprints

I'm pleased to share that I will be giving a TEDx talk on Saturday, March 3 on "Ecological Handprints: Lifting Humanity While Lowering Our Footprint." TED talks are "a clearinghouse that offers free knowledge and inspiration from the world's most inspired thinkers, and also a community of curious souls to engage with ideas and each other." I will be the opening speaker for these TEDx talks which are being hosted by the University of California, Irvine. Stay tuned, I'll post a link to the YouTube video when it's ready. Meanwhile, here is a short video about TED to get you excited ! TED = Ideas Worth Spreading.