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Jerry Mander passes on

Jerry has been one of the San Francisco Bay Area’s more influential intellectuals, using his systematic thinking to flavor the region’s humanist tendencies, and questioning the many orthodoxies of our western social and economic thought.

Getting along!

I look forward to a time in the near future when we can come out from behind our masks and learn from the playful lead of our animal relations!

Systems thinking and the evolution of an idea

In the early 1990’s Physical Oceanographer Walter Munk was proposing the deployment of a technology called “Acoustic Tomography of Ocean Climate” (ATOC), whereby loud, low frequency sounds would be projected from the Pioneer Seamount across the Pacific Ocean, to Kauai, with the understanding…

Working on the Ocean Climate Action Plan

Back in the darkening days of the previous administration, Rep. Raul Grijalva, Chair of the House Natural Resources Committee, introduced the Ocean Based Climate Solutions Act of 2020 – a roadmap to advancing our engagement with the ocean with a…

Human Kindness

With much more than a sigh of relief; I can start breathing again more regularly as the wheels of our Republic start pulling out of the ditch they’ve been stuck in for some time now. But there is much more…

(Not so) Critical Habitat

On August 5, 2020, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) proposed two definitions of the word “habitat” under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Both of their proposed definitions limited the agency’s ability…