THE SCIENCE CHRONICLES December 2010
BOOK ‘EM, SANTA: THE HOLIDAY BOOK REVIEW ISSUE
reviews by SUSANNA DANNER BOB LALASZ CRAIG LEISHER MATT MILLER JEN MOLNAR SANJAYAN MARK TERCEK & ST. PETER KAREIVA
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Table of Contents
Editor’s Note 3
Holiday Book Reviews: Fiction 4 Frazen: Freedom (reviewed by Bob Lalasz) Moying: Snow Falling in Spring (Peter Kareiva) Flaubert: Madame Bovary (translated by Lydia Davis) (Lalasz) Larsen: The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet (Sanjayan) Seuss: The Lorax (Craig Leisher)
Holiday Book Reviews: Non-Fiction 10 Richards: Life (Kareiva) Goldacre: Bad Science (Jen Molnar) Dyson, ed.: The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2010 (Lalasz) Gawande: The Checklist Manifesto (Leisher) Pielke: The Climate Fix (Kareiva) Kareiva and Marvier: Conservation Science (Mark Tercek) Goodall et al.: Hope for Animals and Their World (Matt Miller) Hutto: The Light in High Places (Sanjayan) Hoving: Making the Mummies Dance (Tercek) Goldsmith: Mojo (Tercek) Vaillant: The Tiger (Susanna Danner) Vaillant: The Tiger (Sanjayan) Brand: Whole Earth Discipline (Tercek) Pink: A Whole New Mind (Kareiva) Jackson: A World on Fire (Miller) Lanier: You Are Not a Gadget (Lalasz)
Holiday Book Reviews: Reading Appliances 18
Kindle 3 (Lalasz)
News, Announcements and Orgspeak 19
Conservancy Publications 22
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Editor’s Note
The sentence still rings in my head from grad school, 17 years ago: “There’s nothing more bourgeois than sitting down and opening up a novel,” said my colleague in class one day, sneering the sneer of the tragically postmodern. (He’s now teaching English at USC...whatever “English” has become these days in academia.) I suppose he was right on some level, when the novel was the epitome of cultural achievement. But not now. Today, culture is whatever you make it; and books (and readers) are free to be themselves, without the pressures of cultural ex- pectations or status symbolism. And with book sales in the United States no longer falling pre- cipitously (or at all), there’ll be no boo-hoo lamentations for the sad state of reading or the fu- ture of the book here — just 20 reviews of great books that you should check out during the holiday break, or consider giving as gifts.
And people do use this annual issue as a holiday buying guide. (Talk about pressure.) Thankfully, our contributors have come through: From Jen Molnar writing on bad science to Matt Miller on when science was really considered bad, from myself on the Kindle 3 to Sanjayan on a book that’s not really a book, from Sanjayan on a man-eating tiger to Sus Danner on the same tiger, from Mark Tercek on Peter Karevia to Peter Kareiva on Keith Richards...this issue of Chronicles is a literary stocking filled to bursting. (“Literary stocking”: a very mixed metaphor. “Peter Kareiva on Keith Richards”: not at all.)
I wish you a safe and restful holiday season.
—Bob Lalasz [email protected]
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THE HOLIDAY BOOK REVIEW ISSUE: FICTION
Yes, He Made ‘Oprah’ and the Cover of TIME. You’ll Love It Anyway. Freedom: A Novel. By Jonathan Franzen. Knopf, 2010. 352 pages.
You will have heard that Freedom is the novel of the decade and that Jonathan Frazen is our age’s Zola or Bellow, skewer- ing our culture like a kabob. (Also, that one of the main char- acters is a former TNC fundraiser who left in disgust). You may also have heard that the protagonists are petty and an- noying, that the plot meanders, that Franzen is getting far too much attention. It’s all true — and none of it prepares you for the astonishing experience of actually reading the book, which you will do in great gulps, amazed at how Franzen is making you breathlessly obsessed with this venal, grasping, irritating and very typical middle-class American family. It’s called empathy. Not affection, but a improb- able, creeping identification — that you, however much I dislike you, are also somehow like me, which is scary and humbling. Upon such feelings is civilization built. —Bob Lalasz
The Lingering Legacy of China’s Cultural Revolution Snow Falling in Spring. By Moying Li. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2008. 192 pages.
Moying Li was born in 1954 and grew up during China’s cultural revolution. This coming-of-age memoir is categorized by its publisher under “juvenile literature.” I think not. Moying saw her teachers beaten, her father taken away and her house ransacked. Her description of the Red Guard destroying her fa- ther’s books is wrenching. Simple things like a family meal or reading a good book became clandestine pleasures that Moying had to pursue in secrecy. What Moying went through a whole Chinese generation went through — and it is that generation that leads China now, from which are drawn today’s heads of ministries and academies of science. It was only 35 years ago that the Cultural Revolution ended. And as Moying tells her story, it is clear that this dark period will always be part of her life and a foundation for her resilience and her ability to take the long view. —Peter Kareiva
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Desperate Shopaholic Housewife Goes Mad, Invents Modernity
Madame Bovary. By Gustav Flaubert, translated by Lydia Davis. Viking, 2010. 384 pages.
The best novel of 1857 might also be the best novel of 2010: It flies by in Lydia Davis’s diamond-sharp transla- tion, which is so economical it’s almost pressurized. (Davis, one of the great, unsung female fiction writers alive, sometimes writes short stories that are really short — as in, one sentence long.) But we all faked our way through this book in school — so why read it now, espe- cially if you’re a scientist? Because the cliché is also true: Emma Bovary’s deep, thrashing boredom with her time feels uncomfortably close to our own with ours, despite all our gadgets and continuous wiredness. But more to the point, because Madame Bovary is a supreme exercise in no- ticing — in being seduced by life’s details, as Charles Bovary is seduced by Emma’s shoes and silences. It is data and its interpretation, married tragically and gloriously. What else is there? —Bob Lalasz
And Now for Something Completely Different
The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet. By Reif Larsen. Penguin, 2009. 400 pages
It’s entirely possible that author Reif Larsen is too smart for the rest of us. This book — his first — is so staggeringly different that I find it difficult to compare it with anything else. It’s like trying to compare a painting with a song: Both might move you, both might inspire and cause your imagina- tion to spiral…but which is better?
The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet is on one level a grand travel adventure. A young boy wins a coveted prize from the Smithsonian for his cartog- raphy, and he embarks alone at dawn on a wild adventure, traversing the country from Montana to Washington, DC. What happens is both funny and poignant, but the book’s 400 or so odd pages are so much more than just a story. It’s more akin to a manual, with notes in the margins, sketches, maps, diagrams, cartoons and scien-
5 the science CHRONICLES December 2010 tific illustrations — you almost need an instruction guide to get through it. Stephen King said of it: “Few if any will have experienced anything like it. I am flabbergasted…” I couldn’t agree more.
In the end, I did what came naturally: read the bits that made sense to me, turned the pages when I wanted to, looked at some pages more carefully than others, and walked away entirely satisfied and mystified at the same time. If nothing else, it will make you appreciate mapmakers all the more, and it will leave you pitying the pathetic state of your own field jour- nals — yes, the ones you buy in nice leather bindings and promise at the start of every trip to be faithful to. —Sanjayan
I Am the Lorax, I Speak for the Tre...
The Lorax. By Dr. Seuss. Random House Books for Young Readers, 1971 (reprint). 72 pages.
If you are only going to read one book about conservation, this is the one. Eve- rything you need to know about how not to do conservation is here. And it all rhymes.
The Once-ler built his factory in what was clearly a high conservation value forest. Bad start. Then he alienated the pow- erful local leader, the Lorax, displaced the local population, and sneered at their con- cerns. Mega bad mojo. Finally, the Once-ler relies on technology and his relatives to “big- ger” his business — the “super axe hacker which whacked off four Truffula Trees at one smacker” and nepotism 101. The result is a polluted and treeless wasteland. There’s no natural science, no social science and bad econom- ics: wrong, wrong and wrong. But like Pandora’s box, there is also a single jewel of hope: The last Truffula Tree seed is given to someone who might just replant the trees. Read it and heed it. —Craig Leisher
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THE HOLIDAY BOOK REVIEW ISSUE: NON-FICTION More than Just A Rock-Star Bio — It’s the Tale of a Hard-Working Man
Life. By Keith Richards. Little, Brown & Company, 2010. 576 pages.
Celebrity books are usually banal. Not Keith Richard’s biogra- phy. It is an adventure, a love affair with music, and more of a parable for hard work than you would ever guess from Rich- ards’ druggie image. Yeah, there are the cheap thrills of some- one who can write “he was a degenerate, even by my stan- dards.” But there is also a lot of loyalty, thoughtful regret and a recipe for “Bangers and Mash.” I think we all have a little of the voyeur in us, and this is the best book I have come across in a decade with which to feed that appetite. Seeing the United States through the eyes of Richards or reading about his favor- ite songs and musicians is a treat in any genre. The Economist found wisdom in this book about keeping partnerships together, and they have a point. But most of all, this is just a tale worth reading. —Peter Kareiva
How to Become ‘Future-Proofed Against New Variants of Bullshit’
Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks and Big Pharma Flacks. By Ben Goldacre. Faber & Faber, 2010. 304 pages.
Bad Science offers an eye-opening look into the science of medicine, with a focus on the results of the public, media and even researchers not understanding scientific evidence and research. Goldacre, a medical doctor and journalist, clearly and with searing wit examines the evidence and re- search behind topics ranging from what’s really in expensive moisturizers and the packaging of painkillers to AIDS treat- ment in South Africa and the links between MMR and autism. Along the way, he uses these well-researched exam- ples to introduce us to the basics of the scientific method and the challenges of interpreting research results. With the aim of the book being that “…you should be future-proofed against new variants of bullshit,” it not only gives you tools to better read a scientific paper, it’ll help you take a more critical look at the
7 the science CHRONICLES December 2010 next media-hyped medical or nutrition scare, and you may even finally understand what they are really telling you in the small print at the bottom of the next moisturizer commercial you see on TV. —Jen Molnar
Nature 1, Science 0 The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2010. Freeman Dyson, ed. Mariner Books, 2010. 416 pages.
Collections like these are like boxes of holiday truffles — you like the ones with cherries inside, you love the nougats, and the white chocolates you can take or leave. This collection is mostly cherries and nougats (albeit all published in 2009), and also gives you a great view of how thoroughly nature writing has today eclipsed science writing: The age of John McPhee and Tom Wolfe and Stephen Jay Gould has give way to essays on climate change, resource extraction and very endangered spe- cies (such as Jane Goodall’s great short account of four stick- bugs discovered on a lone bush on an Australian island, the last of their kind). Highlights include Jim Carrier’s dissection of the global shrimp trade, Don Stap’s wonderful elegy for the New Zealand godwit, Jonah Lehrer’s account of how a single marshmallow can reveal how success- ful you’ll be in life, and Dyson’s characteristically cranky intro. —Bob Lalasz
Check 1, 2, 3 The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right. By Atul Gawande. Henry Holt & Company, 2009. 209 pages.
What did Captain Chelsey Sullenberger and First Officer Jeff Skiles do after a suicide attack by Canada geese on the engines of the US Airways plane they were flying (and successfully landed in the Hudson River two years ago)? Opened their engine restart checklist.
What do surgery teams at Johns Hopkins do right before they make the first cut? Review their pre-op checklist.
Pilots and surgeons need checklist because the stakes could not be higher than life and death. But do conservationists need checklists? What’s the point?
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Consider this: Ten years ago, Conservation by Design was a new way to understand a complex process. Today, a project-cycle framework like CbD is an assumed starting place, and we are expected to know the details of each CbD step — conservation action plans, results chains, monitoring indicators, etc. In a decentralized organization with more than 1,000 projects, trainers and coaches cannot be everywhere with just-in-time knowledge about all these steps. Maybe checklists are not such a bad idea.
As Atul Gawande writes in his new book, in almost every field “the volume and com- plexity of what we know has exceeded our individual ability to deliver its benefits correctly, safely or reliably.” Failure due to ignorance is forgivable, but knowing the right thing to do and forgetting to do it is not. So the best checklists include only the most important steps to ensure those steps aren’t overlooked. And they’re living documents, continually refined and revised. They institutionalize best practices and simplify complexity, and conservation is nothing if not complex.
Clearly, the Canada geese flying over the Hudson River last January did not have an adequate checklist because there was nothing about not flying in front of airplanes. Some of you probably already know that Canada geese are the first wave of a Canadian colonial incursion into the United States. But there are better weapons to fight this expansionist Canadian menace than Airbus A320 engines. Join Goose Peace (www.geesepeace.org), and you’ll learn to fight the invaders. And what does Goose Peace give you for the fight? A little training and...a checklist. !!!!!!!!!!!—Craig Leisher
Climate Heresy: What the Policy Wonks Aren’t Telling You
The Climate Fix: What Scientists and Politicians Won’t Tell You About Global Warming. By Roger Pielke, Jr. Basic Books, 2010. 288 pages
This is the best climate book I have read. I have been consistently and deeply frustrated by the dialogue surrounding global warm- ing and emissions reductions. The climate skeptics are ridiculous in the way they latch on to a few trivial issues and deny the overwhelming evidence. But then the environmental community is almost as bad, both in its hyperbole and in how it seeks solu- tions they think they can achieve as opposed to the solutions we actually need. Pielke’s central tenet is that decarbonization cannot be done at the expense of economic growth, and all solutions that aspire to do so (like cap-and- trade) are denying the facts. Most NGO policy and science staff will chafe at Pielke’s analysis — but they should all read his arguments and question their own conventional wisdom. After all, that conventional wisdom has not gotten us very far. —Peter Kareiva
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A Must-Read for All Conservationists
Conservation Science: Balancing the Needs of Peo- ple and Nature. By Peter Kareiva and Michelle Marvier. Roberts & Company, 2010. 576 pages.
Everyone who cares about conservation should read this book. I’m biased, of course, but I think everybody in our field will find this to be a very provocative text. Reading it makes you think hard about how exactly we should pursue the Con- servancy’s mission.
Of course, Peter Kareiva is none other than the Conservancy’s fearless chief scientist. One of the best parts of my job is consulting with Peter on all the complex matters we deal with at TNC. I always enjoy the blend of pragmatism, creativity, intellectual rigor and humor Peter brings to these discussions. In this great textbook, he and co-author Mi- chelle Marvier do the same for students who want to better understand the business of nature conservation. They pull no punches, presenting lofty scientific concepts alongside practical daily realities such as figuring out how best to allocate very scarce resources.
I read this book almost two years ago in its draft form. When I arrived at the Conser- vancy, Peter came to see me and said that he perceived some “gaps” in my conservation science background. He said that it if I read the book I would not only be a lot better informed, but also likely exceed my counterparts at other NGOs in my knowledge about conservation. I don’t know if I proved to be that good of a student, but I do encourage all colleagues to read this text carefully. No matter how knowledgeable you are, I still think you will learn a lot. Peter and Mi- chelle tackle all of the real world issues we face daily, including getting more traction with payment for ecosystem services, understanding protected areas versus working landscapes, dealing practically with introduced species and — very important at the Conservancy today — broadening the appeal of the conservation movement.
Please read this book. Think hard about how we can move our organization forward most effectively. And speak up — let your team, Peter and me know what you think. —Mark Tercek
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The Conservationist’s Antidote to Doom-and-Gloom
Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species are Being Rescued from the Brink By Jane Goodall with Thane Maynard and Gail Hudson. Grand Central Publishing, 2009. 416 pages.
Are you a “Debbie Downer” at your holiday gath- erings, depressing family and friends with factoids about mass extinction events? If so, maybe you need to sit by the fireplace with this collection. Primatologist Jane Goodall and others share inspirational stories of a long list of species brought back from the very edge of extinction by ingenuity, passion and hard work.
This is pretty light reading, but it’s a nice antidote to all the doom-and-gloom that dominates environmental news. The stories presented here show that it’s almost never too late to turn things around for wildlife, if we have the will and determination. The tales are well-told and contain plenty of nuggets of good advice for conservation practitio- ners.
We need to be telling the hopeful stories, too. This book offers a nice selection of those stories — perfect if you need a little holiday conservation cheer. —Matt Miller
Don’t Decline That Four-Hour Meeting Invite Just Yet
The Light in High Places: A Naturalist Looks at Wyoming Wilderness — Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep, Cowboys, and Other Rare Species. By Joe Hutto. Skyhorse Publishing, 2010. 352 pages.
Ever get the urge to call it quits? Check out of meet- ings, conference calls, email, Facebook and Twitter? Ever get the urge to forget about your mounting bills, your car pay- ments, child care, upcoming trips and TSA lines? Ever look up at some great peak or look over some great wilderness and think, even for a moment, what it would be like if you gave it all up, checked out of your life and really started living?
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Well, don’t — as good as it might sound, it probably is not the best thing to do on an im- pulse. Do this on an impulse instead: Read Joe Hutto’s The Light in High Places, a great book about getting what it’s really like to get out into the wilderness.
A superb naturalist, Hutto does two things well in this book: observe the minutia of na- ture around him, and spend loads of time alone, in really big empty places. Luckily for us, he also writes well.
Dispatched to the Wind River Range of Wyoming, Hutto is sent on a monastic mission to live among the largest herd of Big Horn Sheep (Orvis canadensis), two miles up in the sky, to dis- cover the cause of their alarming and steep decline. Just 10 years ago, there were only 1,500 Big Horn. By the time Hutto gets up among them, the sheep’s numbers are less than half that figure.
As Joe Hutto unravels the mystery of what’s happening to the Big Horn, all around him unravels a vivid tapestry of life from a swiftly disappearing age — full of grizzly, pika, pine and lily, of snow fields, glaciers, cowboys and an eternity of peaks. It turns out that no matter how far you go, even to the last great places on earth, the interconnectedness of life means that the actions of humans even 1,000 miles away still reverberate.
The Light in High Places is a great book to take camping. It may keep you out a little longer. And when you return, as you no doubt eventually will, Hutto makes it easier to bring back a little solitude into the clutter of life. —Sanjayan
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A Model For TNC...from the Art World? You Bet, Says Mark
Making the Mummies Dance: Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art. By Thomas Hoving. Simon & Schuster, 1994. 448 pages.
This book has absolutely nothing to do with The Nature Conservancy — or so I thought when I began to read it. It is the memoir of the late Thomas Hoving, who brilliantly and — in his critics’ view — flamboyantly served as director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City in the ‘60s and ‘70s. Hoving rocked New York City society by bring- ing a whole new level of showmanship to the art museum scene. Critics freaked out, but museum attendance soared, as did revenues. Hoving reinvested the increased revenue into new acquisitions and expansions of the museum.
What’s really amazing about this book is that Hoving seems to call them exactly as he sees them. He tells hilarious stories about contretemps with his board of directors, shenanigans with donors and all sorts of politically incorrect activities by his colleagues. This reader couldn’t help daydreaming about how much fun it would be to write a similar tale about The Nature Conservancy. I recommend Making the Mummies Dance to anyone who is interested in the nitty- gritty work of broadening support for conservation. Hoving’s creativity, fearlessness and daring are an interesting model for us. —Mark Tercek
Somebody Stole Your Mojo?
Mojo — How to Get It, How to Keep It, How to Get it Back If You Lose It. By Marshall Goldsmith. Hyperion, 2010. 205 pages.
This great book is by a good friend of mine. Marshall is an executive coach who helps leaders achieve positive change in their behavior. He’s had huge career success because he really focuses on empowering people to improve. In this book, he aims at helping readers achieve both short-term satisfaction (“happiness,” in Mar- shall’s parlance) and long-term benefit (“meaning”). His hypothesis is that, if you can spend more time engaged in activities that maxi- mize both happiness and meaning, you’ll do better in your job and be more fulfilled too. This is important stuff to think about, and I think Mojo is a good place to start. —Mark Tercek
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A Book So Good, We Reviewed it Twice
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival. By John Vaillant. Knopf, 2010. 352 pages.
In 2000, a 600-pound Amur tiger escaped its cage at Zoo Boise, injuring a woman. The incident happened during the zoo’s “Feast for the Beasts” fundraiser, and no, you can’t make this stuff up. A policeman, aiming for the tiger, acciden- tally shot the woman while she was being mauled. Luckily for woman and tiger, his other bullets went wide, and the ti- ger retreated.
John Vaillant, author of The Tiger, once said of his subject:,“Imagine a creature that has the agility and appetites of a cat and the mass of an industrial refrigerator.” I just had to read the book after that. For me, the mark of a good story is that it slakes my curiosity about the main plot while inspiring me to investigate the subplots. For the film Eastern Promises, that meant Siberian prisons. For The Tiger, it’s meant, well, Sibe- rian prisons in the midst of one of the weirdest and most enchanting ecoregions on Earth. Sak- halin Island marks the eastern edge of this amazing place, a nightmare for inmates and the death knell for Anton Chekhov (Sakhalin’s harsh conditions exacerbated his tuberculosis.) The mainland along the Amur River is home to taimen (the world’s largest salmonid); leopards, ibis, musk deer and bears. Unfortunately for the bears, which comprise 3 percent of the tiger’s diet, “it is over this surreal menagerie that the Amur tiger reigns supreme.”
Besides the fascinating history and ecology, The Tiger follows the fates of several men who share the Russian taiga with tigers. These men live in an unforgiving landscape where food and money are scarce. Tigers are worth a fortune in Asia, and some impoverished Russians turn to poaching, which results in tragedy for the tigers. But this book focuses on one tiger that seems to employ an almost human grudge against a poacher...ending in tragedy for both. —Susanna Danner
If (like me) you live in the far north, then on a clear and bitterly cold evening this winter, when snow deadens sound and life seems frozen, collect your courage and go for a walk in the woods. But first read the prologue of John Vaillant’s brutal new book The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival. You may return home a bit more swiftly, pulse racing and eyes darting at the shadows, and ready to devour the rest. And I promise that your winter walks will never be the same again.
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The Russian Primorye in that country’s far east is one of the most exotic landscapes on Earth: a riot of broadleaf and evergreen trees replete with bears, wolves, deer, elk, boar, leopards and tigers. But in 1997, the crumbling Russian economy and political situation cou- pled with an exceptionally cold winter meant a tidal wave of poaching.
In this context, an unusually large male Amur tiger (or Siberian tiger) turned from its diet of deer, pig, dog and occasional bear to start hunting man. The Amur is known as the “Czar of the Forest”; there is no bigger tiger in the world, in the history of the world, and there were only 400 remaining in the wild. While some Amur tigers have on occasion killed humans, in the Primorye none have done so as this one did, with the single- minded purpose of an assassin. This tiger — which carried bits of metal in its muscle and joints from poachers’ gunshots — did not simply kill. It set up ambushes for a chosen few that it methodically targeted with a relentlessness only humans before had displayed.
Consider this: The tiger once entered a snowbound cabin when its occupant is elsewhere and proceeded to destroy it. Then it carried and dragged the unwieldy mattress a hundred me- ters up a hill, overlooking the path to the cabin, where it laid down regally on its usurped bed, waiting for the rightful owner to return. And when Vaillant calls an attack “an annihilation,” you believe him!
Though it occasionally bogs down in the details, The Tiger is meticulously researched and paints a vivid and riveting picture of a vast but vanishing landscape, where the delicate dance of who is feeding whom hangs in the balance. Written from the perspective of the poach- er(s), a small anti-poaching team of brave men known as Inspection Tiger, and “the tiger” itself, this book captures the struggles of conservation in a cold and forbidding place, where externali- ties threaten to swamp the best efforts, and where an errant tiger on a mission of vengeance is going to get its way. —Sanjayan
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Brand Management Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto. By Stewart Brand. Penguin, 2010. 352 pages.
This is another book that everyone at the Conservancy should read. Author Stewart Brand has a remarkable gift for con- tinually reinventing himself — from one of author Ken Kesey's original Merry Pranksters, who helped shape 1960s’ countercul- ture (see Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test) to author of The Whole Earth Catalog (a huge deal for folks my age) to early pio- neer of the Internet (via the WELL, one of the Web’s first online communities). Here, Brand turns his full attention to the conserva- tionist’s mission, arguing for a hard-nosed and science-based ap- proach to setting priorities for the conservation movement.
To note two examples, he focuses on genetically modified foods (as a smart way to pro- duce more food while using less land) and nuclear power (of course, to generate greenhouse- gas-free power and to save habitat from the prospect of becoming what he calls "Renewistan” — a landscape cluttered with windmills, solar thermal plants and transmission lines). Interestingly, he also calls for folks to roll up their sleeves and get outdoors to protect nature (say, by pulling invasive weeds) instead of hitting the gyms. No reader will agree with everything Brand rec- ommends, but we ought to carefully consider everything he discusses in this beautifully written and closely reasoned fact-based analysis. —Mark Tercek
The Next Rulers of the World
A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future. By Daniel Pink. Riverhead Books, 2006. 288 pages.
John Henry was that 19th-century steel-driving man who died in a heroic contest against the steam-powered drill. Then there was the chess master, Gary Kasparov, who lost a celebrated match to the computer Deep Blue in 2003 (on Super Bowl Sunday). Industrializa- tion and the information age each prompted a changing of the guard for the winners in the global economy. Daniel Pink thinks the next changing of the guard will be the rise of the “right-brainers,” those with the ability to synthesize, see everything at once and see things in context (as opposed to processing information sequentially in a ruthlessly logical series of ana- lytical steps like a computer does). I know this risks sounding like “New Age” drool, but the increasing importance of the “right brain” in a world awash with information and cacophony makes good sense to me. This is the book to read to think in a new way — something the world clearly needs. —Peter Kareiva
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When Science Battled Ideology and Reactionaries (Sound Familiar?)
A World on Fire: A Heretic, An Aristocrat and the Race to Discover Oxygen. By Joe Jackson. Viking, 2005. 432 pages.
Forget about climate-change deniers: In the 1770s, the world faced oxygen deniers. Popular scientific wisdom stated that substances like “water” and “air” could not be separated into ele- ments. Enter two scientists in a race to prove otherwise.
Englishman Joseph Priestley was a religious and social progressive who first separated oxygen as an element, but his belief in the scientific dogma of the day prevented him from recognizing his discovery. French aristocrat Antoine Lavoisier recognized oxygen as a distinct gas and revolutionized the way we think about chemistry.
A World on Fire succeeds in showing the evolution of ideas set amidst a backdrop of complex political, religious and social changes. Both men paid high costs for their scientific in- tegrity: Priestley barely escaped England with his life, chased out by an angry right-wing mob who saw him as an enemy of religion and the monarchy. Lavoissier was not so lucky; he was executed at the guillotine by left-wing crowds who saw science and aristocracy as “elitist,” pro- claiming: “The Republic has no need of scientists.”
I suspect that the chemistry focus of this book will lead many (even the science-minded) to believe it to be dry and boring. Don’t make that mistake. This is a riveting account of the clash between scientific inquiry and political ideology and culture. You may find, as I did, new scientific heroes in Priestley and Lavoisier. And while the angry mobs of science deniers still loom, the truth ultimately survives: No one today, after all, claims that oxygen doesn’t exist. —Matt Miller
The Trouble with Twitter You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto. By Jaron Lanier. Knopf Doubleday, 2010. 224 pages.
Sure, Twitter and Facebook are bad for you — they waste your time and destroy your attention span and addict and bore you all at once. But could they also be bad for you, along with Google, Wikipedia and the rest of the Internet appliances that have basically become our lives? That’s the premise of Gadget, and before you turn the page know that Lanier ain’t no Luddite: He was a pioneer of virtual reality, now
17 the science CHRONICLES December 2010 works for Microsoft, and has taught at Columbia and Berkeley. But he’s supremely skeptical about social networks and Web 2.0, and Gadget unmasks their essential anti-humanism — how they privilege group-think, reward anonymity, force us into categories that reflect a Harvard sophomore’s view of the world (e.g., Facebook), and destroy creative peoples’ ability to be paid. Software is not neutral, warns Lanier — its design and choices mold you the way architecture shapes your path through a building, and that’s dangerous if you’re not aware of it. Ever won- der why hip-hop remains 25 years later the most recent musical genre invented? The answer is one of the many reasons you should read this fascinating book. —Bob Lalasz
THE HOLIDAY BOOK REVIEW ISSUE: READING APPLIANCES
Should You Get (or Give) One? Kindle 3. By Amazon.
Bad news: It’s not an iPad — no apps, no email, and its experi- mental web navigation is laughably bad. No color, either, like the new Barnes & Noble Nook; and magazines and newspapers are bland on it. No touch screen; it relies on a clunky button- navigation. You can bookmark and annotate texts, but clumsily. The fonts are primitive. Even though it’s by far the best, most readable Kindle, everything about it screams rapid obsoles- cence.
Good news: It’s not an iPad or a Color Nook, so no apps, dis- tractions or arm strain. No color or backlighting, so no eye strain. No touch screen, so you won’t be furiously scrubbing gunk off it every hour. While I still prefer physical books, I reach for my Kindle on a train or a plane or in bed when my wife’s asleep (I also bought the cover with the built-in light.) It’s as intimate, immersive and elegantly single-purposed as the real thing, and it can hold up to 3,500 of them. My monthly book bill has soared. I recommend it. —Bob Lalasz
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News, Announcements and Orgspeak
WebEx on TNC and Agriculture: All Interested Staff Invited
All Conservancy staff who work on issues related to agriculture and conservation (farming and ranching) are invited to attend a WebEx on January 4, from 3-4pm ET.
A team of Conservancy staff members has just finished writing a global agriculture strategy for the Conservancy. This paper is the Conservancy’s organization-wide vision for how we will work on agriculture, defined as both farming and ranching. We have talked with more than 50 Conservancy staff members as well as staff members at partner NGOs during this process. However, this WebEx will be the first time that the global agriculture strategy has been presented to all interested Conservancy staff.
The Conservancy is now in the process of hiring an agriculture strategy lead, who will direct our global agriculture work. The job description of this person and their role in the broader Conservancy universe will also be discussed in the call.
Finally, there aren’t that many opportunities for Conservancy staff that work on agricul- ture in different geographies to talk and update their colleagues about what they are doing. We will save about 15 minutes for general announcements or questions from staff.
What the strategy document is and isn’t
The strategy paper is the Conservancy’s organization-wide vision for how we will work on agriculture, defined as both farming and ranching. (Forestry and aquaculture are covered in other Conservancy strategies and are not discussed here.) The first section of this paper is a vi- sion of how to integrate conservation and agriculture and is followed by a detailed background section. We then discuss the Conservancy’s strengths and weaknesses, define the unique contri- bution we can make, and list two future directions for our work. Because of the diversity of ag- riculture projects at the Conservancy, this document cannot hope to describe everything we do, just our major areas of focus going forward. This document is meant for an internal audience and is not designed to be distributed as is for Philanthropy or External Relations purposes.
WebEx info: Topic: TNC and agriculture — a conversation Date: Tuesday, January 4, 2011 Time: 3:00 pm, Eastern Standard Time (New York, GMT-05:00) Meeting Number: 828 284 159 Meeting Password: Agriculture2011
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To join the online meeting:
1. Go to https://nethope.webex.com/nethope/j.php?ED=143612427&UID=0&PW=NNzk5ZTI2ZWJj&R T=MiMxMQ%3D%3D 2. If requested, enter your name and email address. 3. If a password is required, enter the meeting password: Agriculture2011 4. Click "Join."
To view in other time zones or languages, please click the link: https://nethope.webex.com/nethope/j.php?ED=143612427&UID=0&PW=NNzk5ZTI2ZWJj&O RT=MiMxMQ%3D%3D
Wanted: Forest Ecologist
Do you know someone who can work effectively with Conservancy colleagues, agency staff and private partners in applying science to guide landscape-scale conservation? We want to hire them! Together, Washington and Idaho are recruiting a forest ecologist who will provide science leadership for the Conservancy’s Eastern Washington and North Idaho programs. Our programs are working at landscape scales. In both states, the Conservancy is a key partner in multi-partner collaborative efforts to conserve and restore inland Northwest forest ecosystems. These collaboratives need a strong scientist to synthesize existing research, design and/or im- plement innovative applied research that will inform conservation strategies, design multi-scale monitoring protocols that will measure progress, and clearly communicate this information to multiple audiences. We expect the forest ecologist will provide a model that can be exported to other places.
If you are interested, or know of other great scientists looking for a new challenge, check out the position description at: https://careers.nature.org/psp/P89HTNC_APP/APPLICANT/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM.HRS_C E.GBL
(Job Posting 12665) and apply by December 17, 2010.
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Wanted: Equations and Factoids With Which to Hook New Members
Earth Day depends on you! And the future of the Conservancy depends on you!
OK, a tad overstated (in the first case). But I’ve received two urgent requests from our colleagues in the Conservancy’s Marketing and Membership division that warrant your atten- tion:
1) Food and conservation science. This year’s Conservancy Earth Day campaign centers on food and conservation —- how the food we eat impacts nature, and how conservation helps lessen that impact and enhances food security. Marketing is looking for the most compelling examples of relationships between food and conservation...so what are they, Science? Salmon? Oys- ter reefs? Best management practices for nutrient runoff? Our work with ranchers? Your best suggestions will translate into a lot of attention by external audiences, so send them to me at [email protected].
2) Compelling factoids about our work. The more concrete your images and stories, the more compelling your communication. Which is where the Conservancy falls down flat: From ma- rine spatial planning to environmental flows to REDD, we are straitjacketed by our own ad- diction to concept and abstraction. Begona Vasquez-Santos, director of membership at the Conservancy’s membership operations, is asking Conservancy science to provide concrete and tangible ways of making our work relevant to potential members. To wit:
• “With a $10 donation The Nature Conservancy can create enough habitat for 300 oys- ters!” • “Oysters are critical to the marshlands of the Gulf Coast and help create habitats for fish, shrimp, and crabs. All of these animals will need clean, healthy habitats long after the oil spill is stopped.” • “In one day a healthy oyster can clean and filter 30 gallons of water! That is another reason why these creatures are critical to helping restore the Gulf.”
So what are your concrete factoids? We need this ASAP — just send them to me and I’ll get them to Begona. Many thanks in advance for your help.
—Bob Lalasz, director of science communications, The Nature Conservancy [email protected]
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Conservancy Publications
Please send new citations and the PDF (when possible) to: [email protected] and [email protected]
NOTE: New additions since last month in red; Conservancy-affiliated authors highlighted in bold.
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Coffey, B., J.A. Fitzsimons, and R. Gormly, (2011) Strategic public land use assessment and planning in Victoria, Australia: Four decades of trailblazing but where to from here? Land Use Policy 28:306-313. doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2010.06.011 Cohen, J. B., S. M. Karpanty, J. D. Fraser, and B. R. Truitt. 2010. The effect of benthic prey abun- dance and size on red knot (Calidris canutus) distribution at an alternative migratory stopover site on the US Atlantic Coast. Journal of Ornithology 151:355-364. Corser, J. 2010. Status and ecology of a rare gomphid dragonfly at the northern extent of its range. Notes of the Northeastern Naturalist 17(2):341-45 Copeland, H. E., S. A. Tessman, E. H. Girvetz, L. Roberts, C. Enquist, A. Orabona, S. Patla, and J. M. Kiesecker. 2010. A geospatial assessment on the distribution, condition, and vul- nerability of Wyoming’s wetlands. Ecological Indicators 10:869-879. Denning, C. A., J. Christensen, and R. I. McDonald. In press. Did land protection in Silicon Val- ley reduce the housing stock? Landscape and Urban Planning doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2010.01.025. Doherty, K. E., D. E. Naugle, H. Copeland, A. Pocewicz, and J. Kiesecker. in press. Energy de- velopment and conservation tradeoffs: systematic planning for sage-grouse in their east- ern range. Studies in Avian Biology: http://sagemap.wr.usgs.gov/monograph.aspx. Drever, C.R., Snider, J., Drever, M.C., 2010. Rare forest types in northeastern Ontario: a classifi- cation and analysis of representation in protected areas. Canadian Journal Forest Re- search 40, 423-435. Drummond, S. P., K. Wilson, E. Meijaard, M. Watts, R. Dennis, L. Christy, and H. P. Possing- ham. 2010. Influence of a Threatened-Species Focus on Conservation Planning. Conser- vation Biology 24: 441-449. Duane, T.P., and J. J. Opperman. 2010. Comparing the conservation effectiveness of private wa- ter transactions and public policy reforms in the Conserving California Landscapes Ini- tiative. Water Policy 12: 913-931. Enderson, E. F., A. Quijada-Mascareñas, D. S. Turner, R. L. Bezy, and P. C. Rosen. 2010. Una si- nopsis de la herpetofauna con comentarios sobre las prioridades en investigación y con- servación. Pages 357-383 in F. Molina and T. Van Devender, editors. Diversidad Biológica de Sonora. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Esselman, P. and J. Opperman. 2010. Overcoming information limitations for developing an en- vironmental flow prescription for a Central American River. Ecology and Society 15: ar- ticle 6 (online) Fargione J.E., R.J. Plevin, J.D. Hill. 2010. The ecological impact of biofuels. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 41:351–77. Fitzsimons, J., S. Legge, B. Traill, B. and J. Woinarski. 2010 Into Oblivion? The disappearing na- tive mammals of northern Australia. The Nature Conservancy, Melbourne. Available:http://www.nature.org/wherewework/asiapacific/australia/files/ausmam mals.pdf
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Fitzsimons, J.A. (2010) Notes on the roost sites of the Sulawesi Masked Owl Tyto rosenbergii. Forktail 26: 142-145. Fitzsimons, J.A. and A.B. Rose. 2010. Diet of Powerful Owls Ninox strenua in inner city Mel- bourne parks, Victoria. Australian Field Ornithology 27:76-80. Fitzsimons, J.A. and J.L. Thomas. 2010. Ctenotus regius (Regal Striped Skink). Predation. Herpetological Review 41:76-77. Flesch, A.D., D.E. Swann, D.S. Turner, and B.F. Powell. 2010. Herpetofauna of the Rincon Mountains, Southeastern Arizona. Southwestern Naturalist 55(2): 240-253. Fletcher, R.J.J., Robertson, B.A., Evans, J.S., Doran, P.J., Alavalapati, J.R.R., Schemske, D.W., 2010. Biodiversity conservation in the era of biofuels: risks and opportunities. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment doi: 10.1890/090091. Fuller, D., E. Meijaard, L. Christy, and T. C. Jessup. In press. Spatial assessment of threats to biodiversity within East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Applied Geography. Game, E. T., H. Grantham, A. J. Hobday, R. L. Pressey, A. T. Lombard, L. E. Beckley, K. Gjerde, R. Bustamante, H. P. Possingham, and A. J. Richardson. 2010. Pelagic MPAs: The devil you know. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 25:63-64. Game, E.T., G. Lipsett-Moore, R. Hamilton, N. Peterson, J. Kereseka, W. Atu, M. Watts, and H. Possingham. In press. Informed opportunism for conservation planning in the Solomon Islands. Conservation Letters. doi: 10.1111/j.1755-263X.2010.00140.x Glaser, M., W. Baitoningsih, S.C.A. Ferse, M. Neil, R. Deswandi. 2010. Whose sustainability? Top-down participation and emergent rules in marine protected area management in Indonesia. Marine Policy 34(6):1215-1225. Gleason, M., S. McCreary, M. Miller-Henson, J. Ugoretz, E. Fox, M. Merrifield, W. McClintock, P. Serpa, and K. Hoffman. 2010. Science-based and stakeholder-driven marine protected area network planning: A successful case study from north central California. Ocean & Coastal Management 53:52–68. Goetz, S.J., D. Steinberg, M.G. Betts, R.T. Holmes, P.J. Doran, R. Dubayah, M. Hofton. 2010. Li- dar remote sensing variables predict breeding habitat of a Neotropical migrant bird. Ecology: 91:1569-1576. doi: 10.1890/09-1670.1 Golet, G. H., T. Gardali, J. Hunt, D. Koenig, and N. Williams. In press. Temporal and taxonomic variability in response of fauna to riparian restoration. Restoration Ecology. Gordon, D.R., B. Mitterdorfer, P.C. Pheloung, S. Ansari, C. Buddenhagen, C. Chimera, C.C. Daehler, W. Dawson, J.S. Denslow, A. LaRosa, T. Nishida, D.A. Onderdonk, F.D. Panetta, P. Pyšek, R.P. Randall, D.M. Richardson, N.J. Tshidada, J.G. Virtue, and P.A. Williams. 2010. Guidance for addressing the Australian Weed Risk Assessment questions. Plant Protection Quarterly 25(2): 56-74. Gordon, D.R., K.J. Tancig, D.A. Onderdonk and C.A. Gantz. In press. Assessing the invasive potential of biofuel species proposed for Florida and the United States using the Austra- lian weed risk assessment. Biomass and Bioenergy doi:10.1016/j.biombioe.2010.08.029.
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