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ENVIRONMENT, LANDSCAPES, ART & ARTIFACTS, ABOUT AL
ENVIRONMENT
Nature & Culture (my 2014 Book)
Presentations
Retirement Talk 1993
Cascade Manor Talk–2019
The April 4, 2022, IPCC Report
The Environmental Predicament–2022
Job One for Humanity article (2/13/2023)
An Alert to the Major Existential Crises of Humankind!
The Predicament Humanity Now Faces
Thoughts on Environment
Job One for Humanity article (2/13/2023)
Real Stories
Eugene Weekly ad 2022
Thoughts on Earth Day 2021
Energy Comments on the Inflation Reduction Act
Technology and Climate Change
What you can do
What Personal Actions Might You Take To Live In The Coming Decades.
THE CONTEXT FOR PERSONAL ACTION
Ways to Survive Personally
How to face global warming–Part I
How to Face Global Warming–Part II
Energy
THOUGHTS ON THE ENERGY SITUATION OF THE UNITED STATES
1. Consequences of Global Warming
2. Changes in Global Land Use
The need to understand the nature of the physical world
The Five ‘E’s
Some energy basics
Landcapes
General Thoughts
GEOGRAPHERS’ LANDSCAPES
Landscapes of Utopia
Thoughts on Wilderness
Landscape views and maps
A Visit to Australia
Australian Sketches
Topography of Old Sevilla
United States
Perspectives on the Great Valley of California
Great Valley Talk
1855 Railroad Survey of Northern California and Western Oregon
Willamette Valley
Ideas about Forests in Lane County
Changing Environments, Landscapes, and Power: Environmental Attitudes in the Willamette Valley
Willamette Valley Landscape Environment
Eugene
Natural Landscapes of Eugene/Springfield: A critique.
Stripping the Urban Landscape of West 11th Ave., Eugene. 1980
Stripping the Urban Landscape: Eugene and Reno, 2018
History of the Breeding Donation Land Claim–Eugene, Oregon
Eugene Agenda and Research Park Proposal by the University of Oregon 1986-1987
African
Research notes on African House Types
Research on Settlement Patterns in Southwestern Angola
Adventures in Angola
Latin American
Adventures in Queretaro
Maps of Oaxaca City
Oaxacan Walls
Oaxacan Windows
Oaxacan Windows and Doors
Sketches of Bolivia and Peru
ART & ARTIFACTS
Why I collect
Introduction to African Art
Africa: Sudan and South Africa
THE SPIRIT WORLD AS SEEN THROUGH DIFFERENT EYES
Asian Art
ABOUT AL
Geographical Thoughts
What is Geography?
Undergraduate Days in Berkeley
Resume 1980-1990
Important Books for Me
My post-election thoughts.
Carless in 1975
Questions about your place in the world
Questions to Ask Yourself
Autobiographical
Privileged Life
Personal connections to Gaia
A PERSONAL CRISIS AND COGNITIVE DISSONANCE
Autobiography
Interview with Al about Geography Department of the University of Oregon 2022
What am I?
My Life and Times–A Sketch Only
Photos 1933-2016
My Life and Thoughts
Academic Autobiography of Al Urquhart
Revised thoughts from Nature & Humans
NEW POSTS
1. Consequences of Global Warming
2. Changes in Global Land Use
3. Population growth and land use change
4. Global energy consumption
5. Use of Natural Minerals
6. The Interaction between Nature and Culture
7. The Earth’s Carrying Capacity and Safe Operations of Ecological Systems
8. Atmospheric Gas Emissions
9. Temperature Increase
10. Goal of Limiting Global Warming by 2050
11. The 2050 goals of the IPCC
12 Technology and Global Warming
13. Climate Change and Human Evolution
Global Environmental Crises–February 2024
How to face global warming–Part I
How to Face Global Warming–Part II
Earth Day, April 22, 2024
The Major World Dilemma
MAJOR PREDICAMENT OF MODERN CIVILZATION
Limits to Growth
Is anyone running for office taking the climate crises seriously?
THOUGHTS ON THE ENERGY SITUATION OF THE UNITED STATES
Stories We Tell Ourselves
Menu
ENVIRONMENT
Nature & Culture (my 2014 Book)
Presentations
Retirement Talk 1993
Cascade Manor Talk–2019
The April 4, 2022, IPCC Report
The Environmental Predicament–2022
Job One for Humanity article (2/13/2023)
An Alert to the Major Existential Crises of Humankind!
The Predicament Humanity Now Faces
Thoughts on Environment
Job One for Humanity article (2/13/2023)
Real Stories
Eugene Weekly ad 2022
Thoughts on Earth Day 2021
Energy Comments on the Inflation Reduction Act
Technology and Climate Change
What you can do
What Personal Actions Might You Take To Live In The Coming Decades.
THE CONTEXT FOR PERSONAL ACTION
Ways to Survive Personally
How to face global warming–Part I
How to Face Global Warming–Part II
Energy
THOUGHTS ON THE ENERGY SITUATION OF THE UNITED STATES
1. Consequences of Global Warming
2. Changes in Global Land Use
The need to understand the nature of the physical world
The Five ‘E’s
Some energy basics
Landcapes
General Thoughts
GEOGRAPHERS’ LANDSCAPES
Landscapes of Utopia
Thoughts on Wilderness
Landscape views and maps
A Visit to Australia
Australian Sketches
Topography of Old Sevilla
United States
Perspectives on the Great Valley of California
Great Valley Talk
1855 Railroad Survey of Northern California and Western Oregon
Willamette Valley
Ideas about Forests in Lane County
Changing Environments, Landscapes, and Power: Environmental Attitudes in the Willamette Valley
Willamette Valley Landscape Environment
Eugene
Natural Landscapes of Eugene/Springfield: A critique.
Stripping the Urban Landscape of West 11th Ave., Eugene. 1980
Stripping the Urban Landscape: Eugene and Reno, 2018
History of the Breeding Donation Land Claim–Eugene, Oregon
Eugene Agenda and Research Park Proposal by the University of Oregon 1986-1987
African
Research notes on African House Types
Research on Settlement Patterns in Southwestern Angola
Adventures in Angola
Latin American
Adventures in Queretaro
Maps of Oaxaca City
Oaxacan Walls
Oaxacan Windows
Oaxacan Windows and Doors
Sketches of Bolivia and Peru
ART & ARTIFACTS
Why I collect
Introduction to African Art
Africa: Sudan and South Africa
THE SPIRIT WORLD AS SEEN THROUGH DIFFERENT EYES
Asian Art
ABOUT AL
Geographical Thoughts
What is Geography?
Undergraduate Days in Berkeley
Resume 1980-1990
Important Books for Me
My post-election thoughts.
Carless in 1975
Questions about your place in the world
Questions to Ask Yourself
Autobiographical
Privileged Life
Personal connections to Gaia
A PERSONAL CRISIS AND COGNITIVE DISSONANCE
Autobiography
Interview with Al about Geography Department of the University of Oregon 2022
What am I?
My Life and Times–A Sketch Only
Photos 1933-2016
My Life and Thoughts
Academic Autobiography of Al Urquhart
Revised thoughts from Nature & Humans
NEW POSTS
1. Consequences of Global Warming
2. Changes in Global Land Use
3. Population growth and land use change
4. Global energy consumption
5. Use of Natural Minerals
6. The Interaction between Nature and Culture
7. The Earth’s Carrying Capacity and Safe Operations of Ecological Systems
8. Atmospheric Gas Emissions
9. Temperature Increase
10. Goal of Limiting Global Warming by 2050
11. The 2050 goals of the IPCC
12 Technology and Global Warming
13. Climate Change and Human Evolution
Global Environmental Crises–February 2024
How to face global warming–Part I
How to Face Global Warming–Part II
Earth Day, April 22, 2024
The Major World Dilemma
MAJOR PREDICAMENT OF MODERN CIVILZATION
Limits to Growth
Is anyone running for office taking the climate crises seriously?
THOUGHTS ON THE ENERGY SITUATION OF THE UNITED STATES
Stories We Tell Ourselves
Carless in 1975
