Biospherics 101 open-courseware - Five PowerPoints / Five Days?
Envision a collection of "Biospherics Literacy 101" open-courseware resources of five freely-downloadable PowerPoints and supplementary topic-by-topic PDFs that, for policymakers, workshops, students, and educators, summarize "What Every Citizen Should Know About Our Planet" in five easy days.
Global environmental issuesWhole-systems Ecology?  Population-environment-demographics? Biodiversity and Conservation?

These workshop presentations and distance-learning resources are entirely free for use by scientists, students and educators anywhere in the world and are accessible at: http://www.scribd.com/TheWecskaopProject and http://www.scribd.com/math_resources


Sample topics include "The world's most important data set," "Demographic transition theory - new questions," "Climb-and-collapse outcomes in population systems," "Population momentum on steroids," "Why 15.8 billion should be viewed as an emergency," "Population calamities in vast open-space conditions," "Conservation and biospheric machinery - why 10% goals may permit collapse," "Lag-times, delayed-feedbacks, and collapse in population systems," "Carrying capacity and limiting factors in population systems," and "A billion pages of theoretical physics" (Hint:  The answer is 38,461 years).
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Planet Under Pressure »Planet Under Pressure
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Policy Briefs »Policy Briefs
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Biospherics 101 open-courseware - Five PowerPoints / Five Days?
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