Don’t Worry About Trump. In his own mind he will be OK.
January 06, 2021 | No Comments
Thinking about Trump’s entrance into the Presidential Race in America in late 2015, coming down the escalator in Trump Tower with Melania at his side, sparked a flashback to a symbolic staircase scene. I have…
‘Mask-wearing’ as a Social Invention: Coping with the Covid-19 Pandemic
December 29, 2020 | 1 Comment
“A social invention is a new [concept], law, organization or procedure that changes the ways in which people relate to themselves or to each other, either individually or collectively.” The following images provide examples of…
Do they give a Nobel Prize for Bullying?
June 03, 2018 | No Comments
Update: I wrote the comments that follow 2 years ago, about half way into the Trump presidency. The US President’s proverbial Bully Pulpit had been converted by Trump’s operating style into the fact that a…
Mexico Hurricane Patricia
October 23, 2015 | No Comments
México.- protection is important to emphasize that we can not skip hydrometerological concerns. The magnitude of this phenomenon we have never seen in this country, there is a history of hurricanes we’ve had in the…
Expert Forum Video on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Antalya, Turkey 2015
June 08, 2015 | No Comments
Disasters occur when natural extremes encounter communities who are ill-prepared to cope with these forces. Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) strategies outline preventative measures to reduce the impacts of foreseeable hazardous events. Time and time…
GUEST EDITORIAL “Politicians need to get their act together on climate change“ Justus Morisse (Germany)
August 30, 2014 | No Comments
“Politicians need to get their act together on climate change.“ This quote from Chancellor Angela Merkel´s climate advisor Hans Joachim Schellnhuber is almost two years old now and was originally pinpointed at the global warming…
Who will feed China? Africa? the United States?
October 21, 2009 | No Comments
Revisiting the question “Who will feed China?” (followed by “Who will feed Africa?” and by “Who will feed the US”) Michael H. Glantz Boulder, Colorado June 11, 2009 Fifteen years ago Lester Brown wrote an…
Posted in All Fragilecologies
“End Run Wars” are not only for the weak, OR Know your enemies before you act!
October 21, 2009 | No Comments
Mickey Glantz in Tokyo 22 May 2009 “End Run Wars” are not only for the weak, OR Know your enemies before you act! When I was in graduate school back in the second half of…
Posted in Human Condition
Things you can do with a shoe on a rainy day
October 21, 2009 | 2 Comments
Mickey Glantz 1) You can show displeasure with political leaders or with anyone else. For example, just about everyone in the world watched an Iraqi news reporter throw his shoes at President Bush during a…
Posted in All Fragilecologies, Politics
Who to Audit? Mickey Glantz or WorldCom?
October 21, 2009 | No Comments
IN LIGHT OF THE CURRENT FINANCIAL CRISIS AND ONGOING CORRUPTION IN FINANCIAL CIRCLES, I THOUGHT IT MIGHT BE INTERESTING TO REVISIT AN EDITORIAL I WROTE SOME YEARS AGO WHEN I WAS GOING TO BE AUDITED…
Posted in All Fragilecologies, Capacity Building
“A rose by any other name is still a rose”. Similarly, the Republic of Macedonia by any other name is still the Republic of Macedonia
October 21, 2009 | No Comments
Michael Glantz I have been trying to organize a meeting in Macedonia. Not in Greece’s northern region of Macedonia but the other Macedonia. The UN officially calls the other Macedonia “FYR Macedonia”, or the Former…
Posted in All Fragilecologies
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