Just a small, technical note: We are moving the envirotech email discussion list over from Stanford’s servers to our own today. All subscribers should have received an email asking for confirmation of this move. I also sent out a reminder to the old mailing list. If, despite all these emails, you are a subscriber and [...]

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We will have a lunch meeting during SHOT in Lisbon, on Monday. The winner of the Envirotech Article Prize will be announced at this meeting (and on the web page after the conference). Dolly Jørgensen will be arranging this event. There was a sign-up for the lunch on the SHOT registration form, so those of [...]

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Nina Lerman sent us a notice about a new database of potential interest to envirotechies: Documenting Louisiana Sugar 1845-1917 at http://www.sussex.ac.uk/louisianasugar/
“Documenting Louisiana Sugar provides historians and social scientists with an innovative tool for examining plantation economy and agrarian society in the American South. Utilizing exceptionally detailed annual crop returns and additional census records, Documenting Louisiana [...]

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Dear Colleague,
The new Jacques Loeb Centre for the History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel, supports advanced research covering all relevant topics related to the life sciences. The Centre is named after German-American physiologist Jacques Loeb (1859-1924), one of the legendary experimentalists and seminal thinkers [...]

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The Vol. 4, No. 1, January 2008 issue of the Solidarity, Sustainability, and Non-Violence (SSNV) Research Newsletter has been posted.  The theme this month is: “Religious Dimension of Sustainable Development.”
The link is: http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv04n01.html
The summary (abstract) is pasted below.  I would be grateful for any feedback (positive/negative/in-between). Please let me hear from you.
With best wishes for [...]

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The Vol. 3, No. 12, December 2007 issue of the “Solidarity, Sustainability, and Non-Violence (SSNV) Research Newsletter” has been posted.  The theme this month is:
“Review of the 2007 State of the Future Report”
http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv03n12.html
OUTLINE
1. The UN Millennium Development Goals
2. The WFUNA Millennium Project
3. State of the Future & Global Challenges
4. State of the Future Index
5. Education [...]

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We’re continuing to the ‘Lost in Transcription’ project, exploring meanings conveyed in oral interviews but not in their transcripts.
Jon van der Veen has completed three more audio compositions, to add to last year’s first on analogies. These are at
http://megaprojects.fims.uwo.ca
where you can find, as well, three of our papers on this and related themes.
Comments welcome, for [...]

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Seeking a student interested in pursuing the MS in Technical Communication in the research area of Environmental Communication.
The research is centered on the role of citizen participation in shaping Superfund remedies at various sites in the Upper Clark Fork River Basin of Montana (“America’s Largest Superfund Site”). Tasks may include oral interviews of participants; reading [...]

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