Earlier this afternoon, a man – reported to be 43 year old James Lee – took a number hostages at the Discovery Channel headquarters in Silver Spring, MD. According to CBS News, “A man upset with the Discovery Channel’s environmental programming who took three people hostage at gunpoint at the company’s headquarters Wednesday has been [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Population Growth’
Man Takes Hostages at Discovery Channel, Demands Environmental Programming
September 1st, 2010 
Eric Wilson Teaching the Next Generation
February 11th, 2010 Eric Wilson One of my favorite concepts to teach in my science classes revolves around population growth. Looking at the exponential growth of the human population over the past two centuries always gives me pause for reflection. How can the earth support this continually growing number of people? What is its carrying capacity? It is with this [...]
Posted in Behavior, Education, Eric Wilson, Op-Ed, Sustainability, Sustainable Development 
Tags: Population Growth 
2 Comments »Is Being Green Truly Sustainable?
May 24th, 2009 Eric Wilson Being green does not mean, nor is it equivalent to being sustainable. These two ideas have been merged in the general consciousness, but they are not the same. While there is overlap, being sustainable entails planning and greater thought. There is no doubt that being green is fashionable. Whether it has the staying power necessary [...]
Will Abundant, Cheap, and Clean Energy Lead to “Failure”?
February 13th, 2009 Guest Author by Josh McKearin, Guest Author The New York Times has an article about the possible “failure of success” should human beings manage to complete a second green revolution that allows them to produce abundant, cheap, and clean energy. As the article states, “we could, in essence, vastly increase the carrying capacity of the planet. Fossil [...]
