Contrary to current policy approaches that focus on mitigating GHG emissions to the exclusion of everything else, resilience should be considered the default climate strategy.

How can we best build U.S. resilience to the impact of global warming?

A few thoughts on recent research about the resilience of the economy and the need for financial regulation.

The removal of a top Communist party official doesn’t tell us much.

The world saw such extraordinary uncertainty in 2011 that a simple failure to repeat that debilitating climate of uncertainty in 2012 may engender a moderate recovery, especially in the US economy.

Reid Hoffman’s talk this week at Stanford (podcast and video available here) touched on several themes that collectively seem to comprise the Silicon Valley innovator ethos; most are relevant to healthcare and biopharma, and I agree with all his assertions except one.

(Hoffman, for...

How is the far right responding to the failed Copenhagen talks, and what role might moderates now play?

Increased telework by federal and state governments could result in significant economic, environmental, security, and other benefits.