World's Worst Job?
Category: What the...?
Euthanizing beached whales. This has to be one of the worst jobs ever....
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 12:15 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Guilty Planet
Seeking reason amidst the irrational madness of destroying one's only home.
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Jennifer Jacquet is a postdoctoral research fellow working with Dr. Daniel Pauly and the Sea Around Us Project at the UBC Fisheries Centre. As a kid, she read 50 Simple Things Kids Can Do to Save the Earth and would come to discover that while those 50 things were indeed simple, saving the Earth was not.
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August 14, 2009: Dan Ax at Avukado Productions makes the following short video for Guilty Planet:
July 30, 2009: Successfully defended Ph.D. dissertation: Fish as Food in an Age of Globalization at the University of British Columbia.
June 2009: In press at Oryx: "Conserving Wild Fish in a Sea of Market-Based Efforts"
June 2009: Published at Conservation Biology: What Can Conservationists Learn from Investor Behavior?
May 27, 2009: Talk titled "Historical Renaming and Mislabeling of Fish" given the Oceans Past II conference in Vancouver, B.C.
May 24, 2009: Talk at the International Marine Conservation Congress in Washington, D.C.
March 24, 2009: Dave Beck and I showcase our jellyfish burger in Scientific American's photo gallery:
March 24, 2009: Talk at the Student Conference for Conservation Science at Cambridge University, UK.
March 14, 2009: Talk at the Kettle's Yard Problemathon for Cambridge's Science Festival.
March 3, 2009: Talk titled "Guilt v. Shame in Market Based Efforts to Save Our Fish" at the Max Planck Institute in Ploen, Germany.
February 27, 2009: Talk at Fauna & Flora International.
November 2008: A new study In hot soup: sharks captured in Ecuador's waters published in Environmental Sciences.
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May 31, 2009
Daniel Pauly's Keynote Lecture at IMCC
Category: Guilt
Daniel Pauly's lecture at the Smithsonian.
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 9:06 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 25, 2009
More on Stuff
Category: Stylized Substance
I remember back in my teenage years unpacking the car during a vacation and singing a little tune I made up and envisioned turning into an entire Broadway musical (unfortunately, you cannot hear the catchy tune that went along with...
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 11:26 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 23, 2009
Soft Enforcement and Sousveillence for Conservation
Micro-technology, such as video cameras and cell phones, could lead to greater vigilance and richer imagery on behalf of conservation efforts.
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 9:01 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 14, 2009
Assuage Guilt: Get Inspired. Do Something.
Category: Inspiration
Obama's ASU speech.
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 11:47 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 12, 2009
Consumerism, Guilt, and the Story of Stuff
Category: Consumed
Watch Annie Leonard's Story of Stuff
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 5:22 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 11, 2009
In a World Deprived of Nature, Artists No Longer Starve
Category: Hypothesis
With no nature, artists will not have trouble making a living.
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 11:49 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 8, 2009
A Call for More Animal Sounds in Music
Category: Stylized Substance
We need more animal sounds in music.
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 10:15 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 7, 2009
Chris Jordan's Guilty Art
Category: Stylized Substance
Check out this work by Chris Jordan that helps us visualize quantitative information using photography. His series, called Running the Numbers II, is a commentary on global mass culture, is now showing at the Winsor Gallery in Vancouver. This new...
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 2:09 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 3, 2009
Sometimes, Old Concepts Need New Frames
Category: Psychology of Conservation
There is a push in conservation (and science in general) to change certain uncommunicative terms to more lucid or dramatic ones.
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 1:05 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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