Browsing Category 'Ecology and Society'
By Nadine Lymn, director of public affairs Social scientists have been weathering repeated attacks lately from congressional leaders deriding the value and validity of their work. The scientific community has responded. The Ecological Society of America is one of several scientific societies serving as a collaborator to show support for social science and its contributions [...]
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Ahu Tongariki, the largest platform on the island, features fifteen restored Moais. The Moai in the foreground was likely damaged in transit and never erected. Credit: Brian Wee. This post contributed by Brian Wee, chief of external affairs for NEON, Inc. The July 2012 edition of National Geographic features Easter Island – known also as [...]
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By Nadine Lymn, ESA director of public affairs Imagine you get up one morning and go outside to fetch your paper. As you reach to pick it up, a strange spider bites you. Your neighbor is bitten too. Now you’re both dying because no one can identify these spiders and therefore can’t administer anti-venom that [...]
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By Nadine Lymn, ESA director of public affairs Many of us recognize that a large part of the solution to environmental problems lies in getting people to change their behavior. Unfortunately, altering the habits of the human animal can be especially challenging—we are intelligent but we can also be irrational and our age-old tendency to [...]
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By Nadine Lymn, ESA Director of Public Affairs Directly following a recent showing of the new film Green fire about Aldo Leopold, a woman in the audience confessed that she had “never heard of the man,” in spite of being an active member of several environmental organizations that Leopold had either helped establish or heavily [...]
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