A single round (1 round) Delphi study. How can that be? – Scenario Plans (: Give a look at the two blogs related to Scenario plans and Delphi studies related to the 2007 research by Dr. Cheryl Lentz. Notice how Delphi-type research can be used for all kinds of studies. These are two blog posts. One on the actual Delphi research doing two things that make it a modified Delphi: 1 round, and quantitative. The…
Lagoon faces unprecedented peril | News-JournalOnline.com: Henderson does a great job of addressing the issues, the sources of the problems and various solutions. Volusia County is not alone in dealing with these problems. Tampa Bay, St Lucy and more have similar problems. Lawns and septic tanks are mentioned. Many people have their lawns on automatic, so it gets irrigated, rain or shine, winter or summer. They want to have beautiful green lawns year round in…
ECO:nomics | The Wall Street Journal: The WSJ’s big forum on ECOnomics seems to have been a great learning and sharing session for divergent ideas on how to blend economic growth/development with environmental needs. A special report in the WSJ on Wed, April 13, 2016 offers several takes and interviews covering the spectrum of associated topics. A couple base statistics are that coal generated electricity has dropped from half of all US generation to less…
Study Confirms World’s Coastal Cities Unsavable If We Don’t Slash Carbon Pollution | ThinkProgress: This article discusses the melt-off of Antarctica as discussed in a new Nature article. They did a better and more detailed analysis of the volume of water that would move into oceans as the Antarctic melts. They resolved a few of the issues that were not fully addressed by other studies. In addition to the models of ice volume/dynamics, they compared…
A Call for Civility and Values-Based Leadership | Starbucks Newsroom: About March 20, there was a full-page add in the Wall Street Journal that had a heading of Howard Schultz calls for Civility and Value-Based Leadership and two column of words, 15 pairs. They were generally antonyms: Division < ==> Unity Cynicism < ==> Optimism Limits < ==> Opportunity Isolation < ==> Community Apathy < ==> Passion Exclusion < ==> Inclusion Partisanship < ==> Leadership Blame < ==> Responsibility Status…
The mercury doesn’t lie: We’ve hit a troubling climate change milestone – The Boston Globe: Bill McKibben gives a quick notice of the unbelievable occurrence. The 2 degrees Celsius above normal is that critical milestone that governments have arbitrarily chosen as the drop-dead level for the planet. We’ll congratulations, we have gotten there! Somewhat humorously, you gotta laugh or you will cry, Anchorage, Alaska is importing snow for the great dog sled race. First year…
