John Pollack

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Economic Development and Biodiversity

What Will It Take for Us to Become Serious?  The split between believers in economic development and those pressing for environmental preservation is poised to become the dominant rift in American society. Along with that is the difficulty of translating big picture...

Our Customs of Cutting Grass and Biodiversity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VuBcmjXdQU Most lawns reduce biodiversity.The video is over two years old, but it touches on a subject that popped up in science news three times this past week, here, here, and here. Scientists fear that we are losing insects at a...

Monetizing Nature

Most of us like complex matters to be reduced to something that we can readily understand, using analogies that we can relate to. A molecule with its atoms can be represented by little balls that you can see, a false representation, but from it you can visualize a...

Invitation to the Compression Community

https://youtu.be/Z7exgF2x2i0 Please join the Compression Community. Become a regular. Our first teleconference will be at 11 am Eastern time, on Saturday, February 1. These will continue ever first Saturday of the month unless the Community prefers a different time,...

School Food

https://youtu.be/CKSARxx0HLI School Food and Existential Crises by Doc Hall This is a nice chat with Alisa Simpson, school lunch administrator in Portage, MI, near Kalamazoo. She peels back the tangled web in which school lunch programs are caught as various interests...

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