This issue of Terra showcases Gregg Walker’s work with Mediators Beyond Border and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Year: 2014
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Engineers with Soul
Engineers excel at solving problems. They can design systems that provide clean drinking water, generate electricity from sunlight and improve personal health. While the design of these systems demands technical skill, success or failure ultimately resides with the people who use and maintain them and whose lives depend on them — that is, with a social network.
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“It’s Nice to Say Something”
For university researchers and students, RINGO meetings are one of the few places they get to speak out and be heard.
As a scholar in environmental communications, Miriah Russo Kelly is digging into the interpersonal dynamics of collaboration and cooperation among people who may share little in common except locale — fishermen and hotel managers, loggers and grocers, political leaders and homeowners, climate scientists and climate skeptics.
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Lamprey Brain Trust
To jumpstart the filling of those gaps, experts from around the Pacific Northwest and Canada gathered at the center in October for a Lamprey Research Workshop.
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Friending a Fish
One of Earth’s most ancient animals has inhabited some of the modern world’s hottest locations: Facebook and Twitter.