What Can an Emoticon Do for Energy Use?
Category: Evidence-based Conservation
Emoticons can help save energy.
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 10:22 AM • 4 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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June 30, 2009
June 25, 2009
McDonald's Ad Reminds Customers Their Fish Sandwich Was Once Alive
Category: Consumed
McDonald's launched this ad for for their Filet-O-Fish sandwich this year (just in time for Lent). Their marketing strategy is an interesting one: a rare reminder that the fish you're eating comes from an animal that was once alive. What...
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 12:09 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 23, 2009
What Is Wrong with The Crying Indian PSA?
Category: Cooperation
Why is the Crying Indian PSA not as effective as people think?
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 2:25 PM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 20, 2009
The Duel for Cool: Monotremes v. Syngnathidae
Category: What the...?
Egg laying mammals or pregnant males?
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 2:42 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 19, 2009
More on Giving Up Seafood...
Category: Food Systems
More on the reasons why we should give up seafood altogether.
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 10:25 AM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 16, 2009
Food Is All the Rage: Why Not Be Outrageous?
Category: Consumed
Because food issues are "one of the most interesting social movements afoot right now", I thought I would continue the discussion over whether we should give up eating seafood just a bit longer and point out the recent post at...
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 6:14 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 11, 2009
Is There Really a Debate over Seafood?
Category: Food Systems
We need to give up seafood.
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 1:07 PM • 43 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 8, 2009
A Call to Give Up Seafood
Category: Consumed
An interview on why we should give up seafood.
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 2:50 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Looking for Surimi Lovers (and Haters)
Category: Food Systems
Looking for surimi lovers or haters.
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 9:26 AM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 6, 2009
To Forgive or Forget?
Category: Shifting Baselines
Is it better to forgive or forget?
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 5:50 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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