Sustainability Lessons From The Global South with Shahid Khan

These lessons are gleaned from Shahid Khan, someone who has worked in human development and sustainability for many years in lots of different contexts.  His work is especially revealing in terms of the subtleties and structural understandings which need to be acted on in order for collective challenges to be met like climate breakdown.  Many of the answers which the world needs are to be found in the Global South in the ancient tried and tested means of, for example, creating ice in deserts. Read more…

Critical Perspectives: Digital Technologies, Education and Sustainability

We live in an age of digital technology and year after year new infrastructure to support this gets laid out, economies expand based on these and new software tools are released into the wild made by tech developers trying to make a living. For many, digital technology has permeated every aspect of our lives as users, and if not as users then as people who have their lives shaped by other peoples use of digital technologies.

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Conference Poster Presentation: Ecoimmunology Perspectives on Glyphosate

This is a poster presentation given at the 2023 Ecoimmunology conference at the University of Manchester which is expanded and annotated.  The event brought various thinkers together from multiple disciplines to explore the subject field of ecoimmunology.  My particular contribution was focused on identifying the effects of the commonly used herbicide glyphosate pointing out by inference that there are multiple ways which this substance effects the functioning of immune response in various species. Read more…

Soil Development in Recently Deglaciated Terrain by R. A. Cranwell

This is a digitization of the work ‘An Analysis of Factors and Processes of Soil Development Operating in Recently Deglaciated Terrain in Svinafell South East Iceland’ by R. A. Cranwell produced in 1980.  You can find more of the work of Robert Cranwell at his website Amateur Emigrant which holds recounted stories of his travels to far flung places all over the world sharing insights into the peoples, the cultures, the built and natural environments:
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