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A collection of 7 posts

Harvesting Algae and Other Parts of the Biosphere

This post is a rambling review of a couple of books and a technical paper that are all around a common theme of obtaining renewable resources from photosynthesis. The books I'll be covering in this post are Harvesting the Biosphere by Vaclav Smil [http://vaclavsmil.com/2012/12/21/harvesting-the-biosphere-what-we-have-taken-from-nature/

Steppe Cycle

This post is a review of Water on Sand: Environmental Histories of the Middle East and North Africa. The chapters have different authors and mostly stand on their own; the editor of the whole volume is Alan Mikhail [https://global.oup.com/academic/product/water-on-sand-9780199768660?cc=ca&lang=en&#] . One

Assorted Links (Spring 2018)

I decided to take a break from my programming series [https://danbscott.ghost.io/week-5-erlang/] this week (and probably next week [https://danbscott.ghost.io/st-paul/] too). Like back in the fall [https://danbscott.ghost.io/assorted-links-fall-2017/], I've got some links saved up that are related to things I've written,

Water, Energy, Food

From time to time, I like to read a journal article and share a review. Toward the end of this post you can also find some related and random links. "The Water-Energy-Food Nexus and the Transboundary Context: Insights from Large Asian Rivers", by Keskinen, Guillaume, Kattelus, Porkka, Räsänen, and Varis

Quantified Conservation

This post is a review of the book Quantified: Redefining Conservation for the Next Economy, by Joe Whitworth. At the start of this year, I included a TEDx talk he did in a post [https://danbscott.ghost.io/rational-optimism-about-the-environment/] I wrote and mentioned that this book was on my reading

Rational Optimism About the Environment

Continuing from last week's retrospective post [https://danbscott.ghost.io/2016-year-in-review/], I wanted to look at a few more posts that I wrote last year; I left them out of the discussion in the previous post because they have overlapping themes that made it logical to discuss them together. The

The Sky's Not Falling

As a break from all the negative [https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/bahrain-cuts-ties-with-tehran-as-crisis-widens-in-saudi-iran-split/2016/01/04/145c8824-b271-11e5-8abc-d09392edc612_story.html] news [http://www.montrealgazette.com/business/overnight+stock+market+plunge+marks+gloomy+start+first+trading+2016/11629362/story.html] in the world today, I thought I'd start 2016 with an optimistic