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#254) HAPPY NEW YEAR: Who will arouse the masses in 2013?
TweetBritish enviro-pundit George Monbiot starts the new year with a note of reality — that most of the world doesn’t share your environmental concerns. Furthermore, 2012 was “the worst year for the...
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#255) TONE MATTERS: Stupid, stupid science bloggers
TweetSimilar to Dominique Brossard (quoted in this article on the anti-science literacy side of science blog comments) I am not the least bit surprised by the finding that the comments sections in...
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#256) TRUST and LIKEABILITY: My “Options Politique” Article
TweetAfter running the U.B.C. Videomaking Workshop last September I was asked to write an essay for the Canadian magazine Options Politique. In it, I talk about the importance of storytelling to the...
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#257) ROBERT TREAT PAINE: A Marine Biology Career to Dream Of
TweetHe coined the term “keystone species.” I dedicated my book to him. Look how many great scientists he helped create. It’s a science career deserving of the greatest honor. MASTER OF THE STARFISH....
View Article#258) BARNACLE SEX: Apparently size isn’t everything after all
TweetBarnacle boners have been close to my heart for over two decades. Now we all have to rethink our perception of how they are used by their owners. HUNG LIKE A BARNACLE. This was where it all...
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#259) DEBATING MORANO: Why… oh, why?
TweetHow long will this continue? The evolution folks figured this dynamic out a long time ago. What’s wrong with the climate crowd? Doesn’t everyone realize it’s a no win situation? Why do it? NONE of...
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#260) LACK OF LEADERSHIP: Bane of the Climate Movement
TweetThe climate movement suffers from a lack of effective leadership. Here’s an example and an explanation: EXAMPLE: the problem of climate skeptic “debater” Marc Morano run amok (as I discussed...
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#261) CLIMATE SKEPTICS: Ignore vs. Boycott?
TweetFine line. Let’s get clear on this. And let’s understand why you need to respect the climate skeptics, whether you hate them or not. Do climate skeptics deserve your respect? (image from...
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#262) A Case of Marine Biological Impotence
TweetThat’s the inescapable conclusion when you look at the 50 years of research on the crown-of-thorns starfish problem that has led to no clear answers. This includes my own work in the 1980′s....
View Article#263) NRDC Demonstrates Effective Storytelling (nicely)
TweetHere’s a textbook example of how to make a nice, simple, friendly, well conceived, developed and executed informative video. THIS IS HOW TO DO IT: “My Toxic Couch” video from NRDC is very well...
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#264) The Cerebral-Visceral Analysis of the Climate Rally
Tweet35,000 turned out in D.C. for the climate rally last weekend. That says EVERYTHING. (CLEAN) POWER TO THE PEOPLE, RIGHT ON. space EMPOWERING THE GRASSROOTS In 2005 I made a great little 6 minute...
View Article#265) REFERENCE POINT 1979: Climate is not a mass movement (yet)
TweetIn 1979 I attended a No Nukes rally in D.C. that was 170,000 people. A couple days later the NYC rally was over 200,000. That’s your “baseline” for mass rallies. Climate is supposed to be the...
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#266) Curb Carbon or Fission Fast?
TweetPro-nuker Rod Adams correctly pointed out that I know nuttin’ when it comes to the issue of nuclear power today, but more importantly, he offered up a simple slogan (Fission Fast!) just as I was...
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#267) FRACKING: Celebrities vs. Scientists
TweetUgh. There they go again — the viscerally-driven celebrities, following the flaming sink of “Gasland,” and NIMBYism, stepping over a dollar to pick up a dime. Michael Shellenberger of the...
View Article#268) A GREAT “Night Skies” Video from the National Park Service
TweetAn excellent collaboration between three organizations (National Park Service, Global Explorers, Madhouse) serves as a model for broad communication of an environmental issue. THE DAY THE LIGHTS...
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#269) Botched Messaging for Shark Conservation
TweetHow do you have a vastly unsustainable 100 million sharks a year being slaughtered, yet USA Today telling its readers “it’s all good”? To the uninformed reader, this headline says one simple thing...
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#270) THE PROCESS COMMUNICATION MODEL WORKSHOP: What the Climate Crowd Needs
TweetThis is gonna sound cult-like. The PCM (Process Communication Model) is the real deal. What does it do? It helps you make sense of human behavior in a practical, experiential (non-Nerd Loopy),...
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#271) SCIENTIST IMPROV TESTIMONY: This is awesome!
TweetThis morning I had a long Skype chat with Dr. Vicky Miller of the University of Bristol who boldly walked into an improv class in January with zero previous experience and emerged a different...
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#272) MARCH MADNESS: The Story Today is the Coaches, not the Players
Tweet“Narrative Analysis” is EVERYWHERE in America today. It wasn’t this way a decade ago. It IS the zeitgeist. Get used to it. AND learn about it, or be lost. TOURNEY NARRATIVE: The New Yorker has a...
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#273) TEDMED 2013: I’ll be “And, But, and Thereforeing” the crowd
TweetOn April 19 I’m giving the opening talk in a special session on “The Great Challenges” at the TEDMED Conference in Washington, D.C. I’ll be introducing the, “And, But, Therefore” template which...
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