I Understand This Cup Not at All
Category: Consumed
What is the deal with the new Starbucks cup?
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 7:39 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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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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Use the Force against the Dark Side of Food
Category: Consumed
Our food system needs big changes.
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 4:13 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Will This Trash Can Reduce Waste?
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
The Guilty Language of Offsets
Category: Climate
What is it about offsets that lend them to guilt-laden language?
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 11:03 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Are You an Eco-Douchebag?
Category: Food Systems
Are you an eco-douchebag? Take this simple test.
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 2:27 AM • 81 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
If You Go Green, It Should Show
Category: Consumed
Companies should make their eco-friendly products distinguishable from their conventional ones.
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 11:27 AM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Should We Believe Wal-Mart?
Category: Consumed
Should we believe Wal-Mart when it says it's going green?
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 11:44 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Cash for Clunkers Leads to More Carbon
Category: Consumed
Cash for clunkers isn't leading to few carbon emissions.
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 1:53 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Apologies for the Hiatus
Category: Consumed
The good news: I successfully defended my Ph.D. dissertation last Thursday. The bad news: I have not blogged for over a week now. My apologies for the long hiatus but please watch for new material very soon......
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 10:42 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Industry-Sponsored Polluted Seafood Calculator
Category: Consumed
As a way of counteracting some of the work by Environmental Working Group, the Sea Turtle Restoration Project, and Oceana to inform consumers about the health risks of consuming too much seafood, a new website was just launched called HowMuchFish.com,...
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 4:39 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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