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PRB
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- A-B-C-Diversity
Accounting,
Accounting for ecological values
Accounting for Environmental Assets--Robert Repetto
Acres
needed to sustain industrial consumption
Acronym
core stands for Clarify, Organize, Reflect, Evaluate
Acronym for habitat -- Weal
Action Plan: what is one?
Actions to sutain climates
Adaptive
Management
Adaptive
Management, commentary by Kai Lee,
AdvocacyAdvocating
Environmental Reform; class
Affinity for nature
Air
Air, composition of the atmosphere
Albert Einstein's personal beliefs
Aldo Leopold's Land Ethic
America's cultural landscape.
America's Natural Heritage
Amusing
Ourselves to Death, Postman,
Neil -- on the "death of discourse."
An Emerging Sense of Place
Anomalies
Antonyms
Approaches to learning differ, Learning styles
Aquifer, what is it?
Arches,
their significance and parts
Arid
regions
Arid Lands Problem
Aristotle, four causes, causation.
argument, dialectic
Argument, One Long --by Ernst Mayr
Arkwright, Richard --inventor with a flair for
hair.
Art of good writing

Art,
perspective in
Articles Artificial
intelligence
Assessment form concerning global warming impacts on
places.
Assignments
Atmospheric chemistry
Atom, visualizing
Atoms, what are they?
Atomic bomb
Austin, Mary. The Land of Little Rain.
Authors referred to at this site
Autobiographical sketch, research
interests
Automated versus mechanical Automation
Autonomous
Awareness: Need to redesign your Community
- B
Bachelard,
Gaston -- the paradox at the core of science
Bacon,
Sir Francis,
Baker, Dean -- economist.
Basic genetics
Bateson's ecological model
Bateson,
Gregory on patterns
Beyond the point of no return
Bias
Biodiversity
biogame of life
biogeochemical cycles
biogeo-cycles interpreted
biology related to history
Biosphere
black holes
Blake, William
body of knowledge
Bohr atom model
Books on climate change, (a recent bibliography)
Boom and bust esconomic cycles
Bridging the gap between science and policy
Broken defenses against technological hegemony
Bronowski, Jacob -- history of science and ethics
Bryner on Science and Policy in international
issues
Buffers, landscape and the importance of
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- Cadillac Desert
California
- California's
water history
________, A California water case
- Campus
map (Rollins College)
Canyon Dams Controversy in the Grand Canyon
carrying capacity
capacity, Carrying and Assimilative compared
- Caribbean
region defined
- Caribbean
History -- study guide
Carson, Rachel: Edge of the Sea
Case studies
Catastrophic events
Category, (taxonomy)
causation, Aristotle's views.
Cervantes, Miguel: sayings of,
Civilization and the bisophere
Challenges from global warming
Characteristics
of science
Class Attendance
Class organization scheme - CORE
class times
- Classes
- Clean
energy agenda
Climate and sustainability
Climate
change, defined
Climate change, index.
climate change, (a recent bibliography)
climate
change, Abrupt
- Climate
change assessment: A class concerning "the politics of climate
change," its impacts on people and places.
Climate change, compelling science
Climate change solutions.
Climate change & Global Warming, Current evidence for
- Coastal storms
- Coevolving
coexistence with nature
Colorado River Dams Controversy (1963-1968)
Colorado River Valley
Colinvaux, on niche
Columbian Exchange
Commentaries on ecological issues in science and policy:
Commons
Community
Awareness:
Comparing your purposes and mine assessing each other.
compelling
science concerning the reality of global warming
Complexity
Concepts
concepts scientific
concepts in technology
concepts to use
Conservation discussed.
Conservation: Changing Contours of
on Round River
Constitutional chronology.
Constitutional powers and Property Rights.
Consumption as a threat to global ecology
Coral Reef return
to top of page.
Courses
that I offer
Cozy
triangle iron triangle of
government interests who shape policy. " of three-way influences"
Creation
Criteria, defined
criteria
used for grading your writing assignments - Crosby,
Alfred: Germs, Seeds and Animals
- Crowley,
Thomas on reality of global warming
- Cultural
Landscape
Cultural landscapes contrasted. Cultural reform, pace of changes in cultural traits
Culture
Culture as a focus of debate.
Culture, defined and discussed
Cuzco, Peru
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D
Daedalus, Greek
myth.
Darwin, Charles and The
Origin of Species (1859) and The Origin notes
Darwinian
Revolution
Darwinism;
Darwin today after the Neodarwinian Synthesis
Darwin --index to the entire subject on
this site (short-cut)
"death of discourse," Postman,
Neil -- on the
Debating multiple use: Seeing the forest through
the trees at the forestry summit (1990s)
Definitions:
Index for all words, vocabulary and related pages
Definition
of biology
Definition of ecology
Definition of evolution
Definition of genes and genomes
Definition of Global Warming, Current evidence for
Definition of Nature
Demographic index
Demographic information and impact
Demographical data worldwide
density
of population discussed
Denver
Deserts as Landscape
Design,
ecological
dialectic,
______, an example contrasting Pollan & Nash on gardens & wilds.
dialectic, The Dialtectic of Solitude,
by Octavio Paz.
Didion, Joan on technology today
Difference between long and short term, time frames.
Difference between physics and biology
Dimensions,
index to what are dimensions?
The Dominant Animal
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Earth
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- Earth
game
Earth Sciences, history of
Eco-justice
ecological
criticism in literature
ecological integrity
ecological Model, Merchant's
ecological
problems in science and policy:
ecological system's parts & ideas
ecological
system's services and functions
ecological terms, linked and ecological concepts defined
ecological web of relations?
ecology
(space) and Evolution (time) generate complexity.
ecology as natural history
Ecology defined.
ecology of early California
ecology of the Everglades
Ecosystem
Edge
of the Sea
The
Edge of the Sea contents
- Education
means?
Edward
O. Wilson
- _____, Storm
over the Amazon
______, Future of life
Ehrlich, Anne and Paul, The Dominant Animal
Eigenwelt
Einstein
Electricity
Electromagnetic spectrum,
Emergent properties
- EMS:
Environmental Media Services
End of Nature by Bill McKibben
Energy
- Energy
Conservation, laws of
Energy topics index
Environmental Advocacy
Environmental history, American
Environmental, scales
of changes in landscape and waterways
Environmental health
Environmental history, defining the scope
Environmental
Issues in planning
Environmental literacy
Environmental model
Environmental Problems
- Erotics
of Place
estuary
estuary protection
- Ethics
Ethnicity
Etymology
- European
hegemony
Everglades - an overview
Everglades of Florida: an essay
Evidence
Evidence for global warming.
Evolution before Darwin.
Exegesis
of the story of Thamus
- externalities:
- the
above concept is explored in the following sites:
- externalites simply defined
- externalites
related to Elizabeth Cairncross', environment editor of the Economist, book Costing the Earth.
- externalities
explored both beneficial and destructive types
extractive,
a case study of the cost of extracting resources beyond the carrying
capacity of a place
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- Faith
and ecology
Faith
in a Seed, Thoreau's long-lost Journal
- famines,
periodicity of measured in the 18th century.
- First
Along the River, by Benjamin Kline
Florida data
- Florida
related pages.
- Florida's
Population
- Florida's
stake in Global Warming
- Florida's
trees
- Folly
Foreign press sources
Forests
forests & ecological problem solving
numerous values of forests
forestry summit
forests and nitrates
forests and civilization
Forest problem to solve
Forest related matters
Forest's
values
Forests
and fountains as having symbolic meaning
Forms of accounting for health and environmental losses
Free Writing
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- Galbraith,
John Kenneth (J. K.) The Great Crash of 1929
Galileo, his importance
Galileo, an introduction
Gallery Guide to images on this site
Gallery Guide to the Grand Canyon photographs
Gardens, importance of
Gardner,
Howard -- on multiple types of intelligence
Geertz, Clifford on ideology and culture
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- Gelbspan,
Ross author of The Heat is On
- genes
and the genome
- Genes,
an index
genes, visual gallery
redefining genes (epigenesis)
- Genetic
resistance
Genetics crucial role
- Genetics,
history of (notes on)
Germs,
Seeds and Animals
- Gestalt
Psychology.
Geology
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Global climate change
Global
Commons
Global warming
Global warming as climate change
Global Warming guide to the site
Global warming recent bibliography
Glossary of words used on this web site
Government,
guide to federal agencies on the WWW Grand Canyon Dams -- The controversy
(1963-1968) Grand
Canyon Dams -- index to the controversy (1963-1968)
Grazing acreage or carrying capacity
Greek idea of nature (physis) or 
Greider,William
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Habitat,
acronym for is - Weal
Haiti,
recent revolution in
Hansen
on global climate change
Hansen, 2006 warning
Hardin on Folly
Hardin
on Limits
Hardin
on Tragedy of the Commons
Hawking,
Stephen
hearths, cultural -- orgin areas for plants
Heredity
Herodotus
Hetch Hetch Valley, California, Yosemite
National Park
Hippocrates, Of Airs, Waters, and Places.
Historical Landscape
Historical methodology
History
History as an endeavor to recapture
past landscapes.
History of Caribbean landscapes.
History of Science
History of science index
History of Technology
Home
page for reseachForeign PressNGOsmedia
Homo Ludens
Hooke, Sir Robert & Renaissance science
-- The Royal Society
Horney,
Karen: Neurosis and Human Growth
Hothouse
How Numbers can mislead you
How to find me during the semester
Human Genome Genetic
resistance Human
ecology
Human
scale
I
Ideas
image
image and text differ
images
Impact formulas (population and wealth)
impacts
of global warming on places
Imperiled Planet, course readings' summary
- index
list
- Dimensions
index
- Genetics
index
- Geology
index
- Global
Warming index
Image's index
Landscape index
Nature
index
Photograph
index
Population
index
Science
index
Social Sciences index
Technology
index
Vocabulary
(guide) index
Indian
River Lagoon, the nation's longest and most diverse estuary.
Indians, the Amerindian's or First
Nation's place in American History
Information,
what is it precisely?
input
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC
International press sources
Interviews -- suggested ways to interview people
Intelligence, multiple expressions of
IPAT,
I = P * A * T, formula
IPCC
Iron triangle of government interests who shape policy. "Cozy triangle of three-way influences"
Islands in the Stream
Isotopes
J
Jackson.
John Brinkerhoff, on what a Sense of Place is
Jamaica, painting by Frederick Church
justice, defined
justice, derivation of the term
justice, what is it
justice, what should we do to promote eco-justice as social justice
justice,
social and eco-justice
Kaku,
Michio, Beyond Einstein
___, on dimensions
Kaku, Hyperspace
Kaku, Visions
Kaluza, Theodor, his letetr to Einstein/s importance
Keller, Evelyn Fox, the Century of the Gene
Kincaid, Jamaica.
knowledge, types of
Kuhn, Thomas on scientific revolutions Kyoto
Protocol, described
Kyoto protocol, speech concerning
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Labor,
defined
Labor models of
Labor Theory of Value
Labyrinth of Solitude
Lakoff, George -- The Political Mind.
Land, defined
Land, defined as watershed
Land Ethic
Land of Little Rain, [OwensValley, California]
by Mary Austin
land system in USA
- land's
value
land as more than real estate
landscape, as defined and a focus of study.
- Landscape
and Memory, notes on the book by Simon Schama
landscape, arid regions
landscape education
Landscape index
landscape, integral part of WEAL
landscape, value inherent within.--opinions
of Marsh and Carson
Laws of ecology
Learning styles
Lecture format examined.
Lee, Kai, on adaptive management and regional
planning,
Legislation
Leopold's (Aldo) ideas on this site
Leopold, Round River
Leopold's Land Ethic
______. Land
Ethic.
______, Thinking
Like a Mountain, a Leopold essay
Lessons that are hard to "see"
levels of size differences in the cosmos
Life
Life sciences
Limits
Listening and learning
Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at
Cancer, Steingraber, Sandra
Lovelock, James -- the Gaia hypothesis
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Map of the United States
Marshes of the Ocean Shore
Mayr, Ernst
Mayr's:
One Long Argument
meaning, of Galileo's
work
meaning
in Technology
metaphors
Methodology overview
methodology fully discussed
microcosm,
Milestones of Modern Science
Milestones of modern science index
- themes in the Milestones,
Miller, G. Tyler, Environmental
Science
______, on
Ecosystems
______, on Earth Science
______, on Population
Mintz,
Sydney, on Sugar's role in cultural transformation
mitwelt model of capital accumulation
Model of ecology applied to history
modern
science
modernity as a technological search for meaning
Monkey
Grammarian, by Octavio Paz
Moral
changes due to technological change
Mountain,
thinking like a (essay by A. Leopold)
Merchant's (Carolyn Merchant) model of
ecological changes
Muir, John -- wilderness battle over
Hetch Hetchy
multiple intelligence, the concept of
(book notes)
Museums
on line
N
Nash, Roderick on wilderness
National Forests and Parks are often unhappy neighbors
National Forest map
nationalism, early America,
Natural bridge, Virginia
Nature
Nature -- index to related materials that define nature
nature, related to affinity
Nature, original western concepts of and ancient debate over
Nature, the revolt of (notes on Max Horkheimer's essay)
nature three varieties
New evidence on human impacts generating Global Warming
- Newly
added material to this site.
Newton, Sir Isaac
O
Occupy Wall Street
Oceans and water
Office
Okham's razor, William of -- on avoiding pleonasms
Oklawaha River data
Olympic
National Forest surrounds the Olympic National Park:
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
Oral presentations
On the Origin of Species (1859)
Our Nation's Natural Heritage
OwensValley, California
Oxford Roundtable talk on solutions to global warming
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PRB
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Pacey,
Arnold
Technology in World Civilization, Introduction
Pacey,
Dimensions, Three aspects, facest, or characteristics of tool complexes are
defined
Pacey,
Meaning inTechnology
Pacey,Technology
in World Civilization, Overview of key concepts and ideas
Pacey, Technology in World Civilization, the coming
of mechanization
Pacey, Technology in World Civilization,
The advent of gunpowder, industrialization and railways
Pacey, Technology in World Civilization,
The Significance of Rail Roads to European styled Empires
paradox
Paz, Octavio author of a Labyrinth
of Solitude
Paz
compared to Mintz and Crosby's analysis of West
Indian development
Paz, Labyrinth of Solitude's contents and
connections to chapters
Paz, The Other Mexico,1968 the development
of political and social demomocracy
Paz, PhilanthropicOgre, US Mexican Relationship
in 1970s
Paz, Themes 1990s: Modernity, isolation,
reconciliation and development
Paz, Themes in US and Latin American
relations
Paz Mexican Intelligentsia
Paz, Present Day
Paz, Mexican Revolution
Paz, The Sons of LaMalinche
Paz, Colonialism and the conquest of the Indians
Personal sustainability measures
Photographic Memoir from around the world.Physis or Fysis
Planet Earth
Plutonium, puzzle of
Poetry of purpose An Elegy
policy,
influence iron triangle of government relations who shape . " of
three-way influences"
Population Data
Population growth in the USA during the
1990s.
Population impact formula
Population momentum after 30 years!
population thinking, Ernst Mayr
on Darwin's contributions.
Population of Florida
Postman, Neil -- Amusing Ourselves to Death.
Postman,
Neil -- on the death of discourse
PRB: Population Reference Bureau
Preservation of natural resources.
Project for an Energy Efficient Florida:
PEEF
Property
Property Rights and Constitutional powers.
Protection, environmental defined
Pursell, Carroll -- White
Heat, history of technology BBC series
Pyramids
Q
Quantum
Quantum mechanics
Quark and the Jaguar, by Murray Gell-Mann
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Real contrasted with ideal
real, imagery and reality contrasted
real,
reality is deceptive -- but "Knowledge is intoxicating power"
realcosmologically so.
Reisner on Reclamation in the American West
Related discussions of forests:
Rendering of an ecological basis for human associations.
Renaissance, technology in,
Research on the World Wide WebResearch, reliable sources
Research from US Government's web pages
resource flow
Revolt of nature
River as a metaphor
Rivers and Forests
River of Time
Riverside
Robots
Rollins College, map
Romantic concept of wilderness
Round River
S
Sacred
Sacred and the Profane, Mircea Eliade salmon
scale,
graphic comparison
size of layers--of different sizes in the
cosmos
- Schama, Simon, (art & culturl historian) author
of Landscape and Memory
Schedule, for J. Siry
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- Science defining science
- Science-- graduate level class -- class material related
- Science -- course overviewScience -- Earth encompassedScience ecologicalScience methodScience perception
- Science and policy: In the Climate Change Era
- science and policy: critical ecological-health
issues in
Science and policy, ecological problem solving
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- Characteristics of science
Science is more than meets the eye.
Science related pages
Scientific Method
Milestones of Modern Science
Scientific challenges to us Scientific revolutions
Sense of Place; Sense of Time, by J.
B. Jackson
sex, Sex, Time and Power, Leonard Shlain, M.D.women's role in shaping
human evolution
Siry, A guide to material written as short essays by me other than web page notes and commentary
Siry, J. V. biographical information
Siry, recent research
______ Mission statement
______ motives
Site Analysis
Site selection criteria
Social Sciences Index
Sontag, Susan –The Pain of Others
space, defined
Speech to protect Florida's natural
heritageSprawl and its impact on Floridaspecies Species, Origin of (1859) DarwinStalking the wild marine turtles! Stanislaus River, dams on and fight for, California,
1970s
State of the Union, 2004
Stevens, Wallace
Story of genes and the genome
Sunken Treasures of the Florida Keys
sustainability and global warming
sustainability, What is?
Sustainable paths for the world (permaculture)
Syllabi (are e-mailed to registered students or distributed in class)
Here are index sites for pages used in classes
Tools of Toil: A History of Technology
Imperiled Planet - first year
Environmental literature
Milestones of modern science
symbiosis
symbiotic
Symbiotic Planet
Synergy
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PRB
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Taxes Taxonomy of terms Teaching and professional interests:
Technology
- Technology, defined
Technology time-line
technology, laws of -- Kranzberg's laws of technical inovation
technology,
history of -- Carroll Pursell, White Heat
Technology home page and index
Technology related pages
Technology in World Civilization, Introduction
Ten ecological commandments
The Great Thirst: California Water
The Science is compelling about the reality of Global
Warming
The tree as microcosm.
Thomas, Lewis -- The Lives of the Cell
Three aspects of ecological
problems
Time as a dimension
Time, short versus long term
- Tips to doing well in classes
- topography
Tragedy of the Commons
Transpersonal Ecology
Treasure Coast Regional Planning Council's
recommendations for community designs
U
Umwelt
uncertainty,
- uncertainty, importance
of
United State foreign policy
in the Caribbean
United States, maps of
United States Population
unity of nature --an essay
Universe: Strange
and beautiful Universe
Unseen genome
Utah, snow accumulation in winter
uses -- utility of
Utilitarianism
V
- Values,
contrasted -- ecological as opposed to economic.
Value defined
values inherent in nature -- the value
inhering in landscape.
variability in living organisms
verities
- visual archive
visual learning
visualization
VITA
of Joseph Siry, Ph.D.
Vocabulary
Vocabulary building
vocabulary of climate change and global
warming
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Warming, global
Warwick Fox, on the importance
of what words mean
Water
water and climate
Water, conservation of
water history of in California
- Water related ideas
Watershed, importance of
WEAL
Weal as the root of wealth
WEAL of nature
- Welt or worldview
Weltanschauung
Wetlands are Repositories, not wastelands
What is risk?
What is sustainability?
White Heat, Technology in Western Civilization,
by Caroll Pursell
Whitman's (Walt ) Leaves of Grass
Wilderness
related pages Wildlife Wildlife as a public trust
Williams, Terry Tempest,
Wilson, Edward O.
- Diversity of Life
Storm over the Amazon
Future of Life
Wilzeck, Physics Lecture on the Strange
and beautiful Universe
Woodwalk, a lesson in treesan
essay
Word Webs
words I use
words --index to all related pages on words and vocabulary
words to know
World Maps,
World Wide Web. Research on the
worldview
_________; Seven lessons concerning worldviews
_________; Writing about worldviews
worth, defining the term and its uses
Writers
Writing essays
Writing criteria, form
Writing a guide (index)
Writing papers
Writing, free writing
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X - Y - Z
X chromosome (genotype making of the female primate)
Your grades are determined by this criteria
Zeitgeist. contemporary "spirit of the times"
- zeitgeist defined,
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