Although I read Jared Diamond’s Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed shortly after its release in 2005, I find myself coming back to this influential work time and time again. I have three copies in my home and routinely refer to it in conversations. UCLA professor of Geography Jared Diamond is an anthropologist, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Thomas Friedman’
Book Review: Jared Diamond’s Collapse
July 12th, 2010 
Eric Wilson 
Posted in Eric Wilson, Sustainability, Sustainable Development 
Tags: Book Review, Environment, Jared Diamond, Thomas Friedman 
No Comments »More Signs Point to China Leading the Second Green Revolution
May 12th, 2010 Eric Wilson It could just be that the United States will not be the leader and China will be a recipient of the US’s lack of leadership on this issue. Thomas Friedman’s op-ed from late last month, as a well as another recent New York Times op-ed, point to the clean energy sector that has blossomed in [...]
Thomas Friedman Doesn’t Believe in the Second Green Revolution
February 10th, 2010 Justin Manger Late last year Thomas Friedman was interviewed by Anne Strainchamps on Wisconsin Public Radio’s To The Best of Our Knowledge. The focus of the interview was the current green revolution, what we have taken to calling the second green revolution. He argues that everyone must participate if this is to be considered a true revolution. [...]
Inspirational Eulogy; Putting the Earth Together
May 27th, 2009 Justin Manger Hot, Flat, and Crowded, by Thomas Friedman, ends with him quoting a eulogy. The eulogy is for Donella H. “Dana” Meadows, a “Dartmouth-based environmental expert and writer” who died in 2001. The remarks at her memorial service were made by Amory Lovins, chairman of the Rocky Mountain Institute, and they express the kind of cautious [...]
Posted in Education, Justin Manger, Op-Ed, Sustainable Development Tags: Energy, Quotations, Smart Growth, Thomas Friedman No Comments »Cut Emissions or Focus on Research and Development? Copenhagen’s Bjorn Lomborg Weighs In
April 29th, 2009 Justin Manger Last Saturday’s edition of the New York Times had an op-ed by Bjorn Lomborg, Director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center at Copenhagen Business School, that raised a good argument. In regards to climate change, his main point was that the focus should be making clean energy cheaper in order to “make low-carbon alternatives like solar [...]
Posted in Clean Technology, Economics, Justin Manger, Policy, Renewable Energy Tags: Cap and Trade, Energy, Thomas Friedman No Comments »Path to Energy Independence: Carbon Tax, American Renewal, and Political Leadership
April 10th, 2009 Justin Manger Thomas Friedman had yet another intriguing Op-Ed in the New York Times the other day. Several points he stresses in the article fall in line with the topics and strategies for achieving the second green revolution covered in our posts. First of all, energy policy should be focused on economic renewal and not solely on [...]
Is the Inflection Point Near?
March 15th, 2009 Eric Wilson Thomas Friedman posed the following question, “What if [the "Crisis of 2008] is telling us the whole growth model we created over the last 50 years is simply unsustainable economically and ecologically?” in a New York Times opinion piece late last week. In a recent post, “The Future of Capitalism”, 2nd Green Revolution makes the [...]
Place Really Does Matter
March 8th, 2009 Stephen Wade by Stephen Wade, Guest Author As the economy continues to slide deeper into recession and we debate how to most effectively use the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, there is the question over what role our cities and metropolitan areas can and should play. Interestingly, the “World is Flat” school of thought espoused by Thomas [...]
