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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.
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.
November 2008:
October 31, 2009
Category: Bookworm
It's no wonder that the most recent Pew report finds that belief in rising temperatures is down. As Jim Hoggan explains in his new book Climate Cover-Up, the media and the public it serves are awash in a corporate conspiracy...
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 8:42 PM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 28, 2009
Category: Bookworm
Oliver Morton wrote a delightful book all about photosynthesis called Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet, which I reviewed earlier this year for Search Magazine (R.I.P.) under the title "A Song for the Heartless". One of my favorite...
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 6:59 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 27, 2009
Category: Stylized Substance
A few notes on Mark Sloukas' piece in Harper's.
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 4:18 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 25, 2009
Category: Solutions
Americans are losing so much money each year. Why not gamble it away on a good cause?
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 3:14 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 21, 2009
Category: Guilt
Obama administration says not to expect any new marine reserves.
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 12:50 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 19, 2009
I have decided to add a new category on greenwashing. It's so prolific, we simply must have some displayed here on Guilty Planet. I am in favor of companies doing the right thing and I imagine that Nature's Path is...
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 10:17 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 16, 2009
Category: Consumed
This is a new trash can in the Environmental Sciences building at Western Washington University. I like the "landfill" label....
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 1:36 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 9, 2009
Category: Solutions
Marine protected areas work.
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 9:34 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 7, 2009
Category: Food Systems
Let's make yogurt better.
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 1:38 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 2, 2009
Category: Guilt
A classically held anthropological view is that "shame results from a public exposure of some impropriety or shortcoming whereas guilt results from more private events." I concur with the anthropological notion that shame is the more public emotion (and also,...
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 10:37 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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