Stories and Scenarios for a Warming Climate 20240427: This is an evolving, working document.. One of the best ways to think about our climate future is to think of stories that describe situations we are likely to face. Stories are natural to [...]
Image: Sun obscured by forest fire smoke. August 2020, Boulder County, Colorado Scenario Planning Collection This is a selection of materials on Scenario Planning. GLISA: Scenario Planning (Great Lakes Integrated Sciences and Assessments) GLISA’s scenario planning approach describes plausible future events and [...]
These lectures are part of my problem solving collection. Lecture 1: The first annotated lecture is motivated by the fact that we find it difficult to think about how to plan when we are faced with a growing threat. We struggle with [...]
Image: The overlooked power of renewables 2007-2013: From Environmental Defense Fund This lecture is an introduction to energy production and use and their relation to climate change. In this lecture, "energy" is the energy we use as a society. That is, usable [...]
This lecture is part of my problem solving collection. This focuses on some aspects of Communications. For an introduction to the roles of Communications and Continuity in problem solving, please go to this link. Specifically, I introduce rhetoric, the skill of persuasion. The [...]
This annotated lecture is part of my problem solving collection. In this, I introduce the concept of using 2-dimensional graphs to start the analysis of related parts of a problem. societal success and energy societal success and consumption consumption and population consumption [...]
This annotated lecture is part of my problem solving collection. In this, I introduce the concept of approaching a complex problem by considering the time scales, spatial scales, and wealth. short term or long term local or global rich or poor Wealth [...]