| Name | Katy Ashe |
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Katy Ashe wrote a new post, Pollyannas of Population Growth: Fooled by the Culture Gap 9 months, 4 weeks ago
Anne H. Ehrlich and Paul R. Ehrlich
Casting doubt on the seriousness of climate disruption is now a major front in the Republican war on science [1]. It is grounded in an ideology that opposes regulation of […] -
Katy Ashe wrote a new post, The High Price of Materialism 1 year ago
Check out this video about the role of materialism in our lives by the Center for a New American Dream:
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Katy Ashe wrote a new post, 21 Issues for the 21st Century 1 year ago
Results of the UNEP Foresight Process on Emerging Environmental Issues
The purpose of the UNEP Foresight Process is to produce, every two years, a careful and authoritative ranking of the most important emerging […] -
Katy Ashe wrote a new post, March 2012 MAHB Newsletter 1 year ago
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Katy Ashe changed their profile picture 1 year, 1 month ago
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Katy Ashe wrote a new post, Human Behavior and Sustainability 1 year, 2 months ago
Sustainability demands changes in human behavior. To this end, priority areas include reforming formal institutions, strengthening the institutions of civil society, improving citizen engagement, curbing […]
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Katy Ashe wrote a new post, Social Movements, Competing Crises and Effective Action 1 year, 2 months ago
The MAHB held a Symposium titled “Social Movements, Competing Crises and Effective Action” on December 7, 2011 at Stanford campus. Doug McAdam, Professor of Sociology and Director of Urban Studies at Stanford […] -
Katy Ashe wrote a new post, Blue Planet Laureates: Environmental and Development Challenges – The Imperative to Act 1 year, 3 months ago
This paper is a synthesis of the key messages from the individual papers written by the Blue Planet Laureates (Annex I describes the Blue Planet Prize), and discusses the current and projected state of the global […]
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Katy Ashe wrote a new post, Interdisciplinary Sustainability 1 year, 3 months ago
What do natural and social scientists create for sustainability when they work together?
Rhetorical answers:
1. Innovation: Working together means understanding ourselves from different viewpoints–and […] -
Katy Ashe wrote a new post, The 7 Billion Wager 1 year, 3 months ago
At an event at Johns Hopkins University on October 14th, 2011 marking the arrival of the 7 billionth human on the planet, Professor David Lam of the University of Michigan and President of the Population […]
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Katy Ashe wrote a new post, Why the Real Victim of Overpopulation Will Be the Environment 1 year, 3 months ago
by Bryan Walsh. Time Magazine. October 26, 2011.
This month, the 7 billionth person will be born on a planet already strapped for resources. To mark this extraordinary milestone, TIME explores the most pressing […] -
Katy Ashe wrote a new post, The Must Haves for a Sustainable 2050 1 year, 3 months ago
This report describes an 18-month World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) project, Vision 2050. The vision was formed by a technique of backcasting past events, to evaluate the plausibility of […]
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Katy Ashe started the topic Democratic crisis resolution? in the forum MAHB Members Forum 1 year, 3 months ago
Can the population-resource-environment crisis be resolved in any way that could be considered “democratic”?
Question posed by: Professor Paul R Ehrlich, Stanford University -
Katy Ashe wrote a new post, Climate Change: What it means in terms of energy 1 year, 3 months ago
by Ian T Dunlop International Conferenceon the Future of Energy and the Interconnected Challenges of the 21st Century: Basel. October 17-18, 2011
As population rises from 7 billion today toward 9 billion by 2050, […] -
Katy Ashe wrote a new post, Population Growth Sees Myths Reborn 1 year, 3 months ago
by Paul Ehrlich The Age: Australia. November 1, 2011
The news that the human population now numbers more than 7 billion – and the projection that it may grow to 15 billion – has caused the re-emergence of many […] -
Katy Ashe wrote a new post, State of World Population 2011: People and possibilities in a world of 7 billion 1 year, 3 months ago
United Nations Population Fund. October 2011
This year’s State of World Population report, People and Possibilities in a World of 7 Billion, looks at the the dynamics behind the numbers. It explains the trends […] -
Katy Ashe wrote a new post, NASA Finds 2011 Ninth-Warmest Year on Record 1 year, 3 months ago
NASA Headquarters release No. 12-020. January 29, 2012.
Watch 131 Years of Global Warming in 26 Seconds. NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York, which monitors global surface temperatures […] -
Katy Ashe wrote a new post, Scrubbing Carbon Dioxide from Air May Prove Too Costly 1 year, 3 months ago
by Umair Irfan and ClimateWire. Scientific American. December 13, 2011
One of the seemingly ideal and direct solutions to climate change is to efficiently vacuum up greenhouse gases straight from the atmosphere. […] -
Katy Ashe wrote a new post, Climate summit was a pathetic exercise in deceit 1 year, 3 months ago
by Thomas Homer-Dixon. Globe and Mail. December 12, 2011.
It was an “emperor-has-no-clothes” moment. The 17-year-old youth delegate rose before the assembled participants at the Durban climate conference and […] -
Katy Ashe wrote a new post, To save the planet, listen to everyone 1 year, 3 months ago
by Robert E. Horn. New Scientist. December 17, 2011.
Big business, rich elites, poverty protesters, desperate refugees, beleaguered NGOs… Twenty years after the Rio Earth Summit, we seem as divided as ever, but […] - Load More
A very good video indeed. Thanks. I particularly appreciate the concept of intrinsic values. I think that the values that the activists share and live foster the development of such values.