Category Archives: Earth Systems

Earth system science treats the Earth as an integrated system and provides a physical basis for understanding the world in which we live and upon which humankind seeks to achieve sustainability. This same systems-based model can be applied to organizations and businesses to better understand their role in larger systems (community, economy, global).

TED Talk on The Fragility of Ocean Ecosystem

Just watched this TED talk, which was filmed in April. I feel like it serves to underscore the impact that we are having on the hydrosphere.

The Oil Spill Legacy

I want to share the things that I find interesting using a personal sustainability lens in this column, but I am having a hard time getting creative while the oil spill is raging inexorably onward.  It doesn’t feel right to have an upbeat attitude about making personal changes that can have a huge impact on…

Great Falls Food Hub – Local Food Innovation

Local Food Needs Your Help!

The Great Falls Food Hub would act as a “hub” for local food – it would offer processing, storage, a commercial kitchen, and a retail space. It is the single most innovative solution I have seen to the challenges local food faces in competing with the incumbent system.

Disaster (Continued)

The Transocean Deepwater Horizon disaster will have an incredible, real, measurable, and potentially crippling impact on the gulf coast communities….

Disaster

I try to keep the tone of my communication as positive as I can. I feel strongly that the best way to change someone’s mind is to point out the positive alternatives – rather than the negative. I also think that the best way to achieve significant change is to start with individuals. My goal…