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Al's Environmental Blog
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
Thoughts on Earth Day 2021
Eugene Weekly ad 2022
Energy Comments on the Inflation Reduction Act
The Major World Dilemma
Technology and Climate Change
Is anyone running for office taking the climate crises seriously?
Trump: Destroyer of Civilization
Stories We Tell Ourselves
Energy
The Five ‘E’s
Some energy basics
The need to understand the nature of the physical world
Thoughts on the Energy Situation of the United States
Global Warming Series
A. The Major Predicament of Modern Civilization
B Global Environmental Crises–February 2024
C. Earth Day, April 22, 2024
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
Limits to Growth
The Context for Personal Action
Ways to Survive Personally
What Personal Actions Might You Take To Live In The Coming Decades.
How to face global warming–Part I
How to Face Global Warming–Part II
LANDSCAPES
Geographers’ Landscapes
General Thoughts
Landscapes of Utopia
Thoughts on Wilderness
1855 Railroad Survey of Northern California and Western Oregon
Topography of Old Sevilla
United States
Perspectives on the Great Valley of California
Great Valley Talk
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
A Visit to Australia
Australian Sketches
African
Research notes on African House Types
Africa: Sudan and South Africa
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
Asian Art
The Spirit World as seen through Different Eyes
ABOUT ME
Autobiographical
My Life and Thoughts
My Life and Times–A Sketch Only
A Personal Crisis and Cognitive Dissonance
Revised thoughts from Nature & Humans
Personal connections to Gaia
Academic Biography
University of California, Berkeley
Undergraduate Days in Berkeley
Academic Autobiography of Al Urquhart
Resume 1980-1990
Interview with Al about Geography Department of the University of Oregon 2022
Geographical Thoughts
What is Geography?
Questions about your place in the world
Questions to Ask Yourself
Personal Thoughts
What am I?
Privileged Life
Worldviews
Odds and Ends
Important Books for Me
Carless in 1975
Photos 1933-2016
My post-election thoughts.
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
Thoughts on Earth Day 2021
Eugene Weekly ad 2022
Energy Comments on the Inflation Reduction Act
The Major World Dilemma
Technology and Climate Change
Is anyone running for office taking the climate crises seriously?
Trump: Destroyer of Civilization
Stories We Tell Ourselves
Energy
The Five ‘E’s
Some energy basics
The need to understand the nature of the physical world
Thoughts on the Energy Situation of the United States
Global Warming Series
A. The Major Predicament of Modern Civilization
B Global Environmental Crises–February 2024
C. Earth Day, April 22, 2024
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
Limits to Growth
The Context for Personal Action
Ways to Survive Personally
What Personal Actions Might You Take To Live In The Coming Decades.
How to face global warming–Part I
How to Face Global Warming–Part II
LANDSCAPES
Geographers’ Landscapes
General Thoughts
Landscapes of Utopia
Thoughts on Wilderness
1855 Railroad Survey of Northern California and Western Oregon
Topography of Old Sevilla
United States
Perspectives on the Great Valley of California
Great Valley Talk
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
A Visit to Australia
Australian Sketches
African
Research notes on African House Types
Africa: Sudan and South Africa
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
Asian Art
The Spirit World as seen through Different Eyes
ABOUT ME
Autobiographical
My Life and Thoughts
My Life and Times–A Sketch Only
A Personal Crisis and Cognitive Dissonance
Revised thoughts from Nature & Humans
Personal connections to Gaia
Academic Biography
University of California, Berkeley
Undergraduate Days in Berkeley
Academic Autobiography of Al Urquhart
Resume 1980-1990
Interview with Al about Geography Department of the University of Oregon 2022
Geographical Thoughts
What is Geography?
Questions about your place in the world
Questions to Ask Yourself
Personal Thoughts
What am I?
Privileged Life
Worldviews
Odds and Ends
Important Books for Me
Carless in 1975
Photos 1933-2016
My post-election thoughts.
Adventures in Queretaro
