Clement Loo

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2027 Process The LCCMR's 2027 Request for Proposal (RFP) for funding from the Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund was issued on January 7, 2026. Approximately $121 million is available from the…

The Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources' 2027 RFP for funding from the Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund is open with approximately $121M available from the lottery-generated fund for projects beginning July 2027. Proposals are due March 18, 2026.

We should reject the idea that the best way to prepare students for careers is to create programs tailored for specific job outcomes. It doesn’t work to “teach for the test,” so why would this work? Real life, real careers are messy, require problem solving. A disturbing trend for a dying economy.

I know that future me will thank current me if current me can manage to finish putting together the syllabuses and Canvas sites for my spring courses prior to the beginning of winter break.

But, current me is having a hard time not giving in to the end of the semester post-grading desire to loaf.

#caturday

Every one of you: post at least once a day about some small thing that makes you happy that has nothing to do with politics. This is a hard and fast rule. I won’t be keeping a spreadsheet or anything but if you don’t do it, I’ll know.

Could government-owned grocery stores be coming to Boston? Two Boston City Councilors are proposing a hearing to consider publicly owned grocery stores in Boston.

Publicly-owned grocery stores can be structured to prioritize community benefit over profit, enabling lower prices, better food access, and stronger local sourcing, and may operate independently or in partnership with non-profits, cooperatives, or private operators. www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...

The Morris Model is helping a Minnesota prairie town go green and avoid partisan divides | Brookings Morris, Minnesota, a rural place on the edge of the prairie, is at the forefront of environmental sustainability. In this episode, Tony Pipa visits Morris to discover how its residents and local…

Morris, Minnesota, has set aside traditional partisan debates to invest in clean energy and innovative conservation opportunities that can help the town remain economically secure and build long-term community wealth:

Two smiling individuals posing for a selfie indoors. The person on the left is wearing a pink shirt and glasses, and the person on the right is dressed in a yellow plaid shirt.

Congratulations to Troy Goodnough and Clement Loo on receiving the James Farrell (Re)Cognition awards from the Upper Midwest Association for Campus Sustainability (UMACS).
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I suspect it's because initially most folks on Bluesky were folks trying to escape those things on other platforms but now that Bluesky has a bit larger of a user base it's drawing in folks who aren't primarily using Bluesky to escape toxic social media.

My siblings and I had similar experiences after my grandmother died. It's wild how unwilling (or unable) some folks are to accept "they're dead," as an answer.

Just got the beautiful cover design of @alisonhopealkon.bsky.social and my companion to our 2011 'Cultivating Food Justice' published by @mitpress.bsky.social It's due out in February next year. Mark your calendars!

Does anybody else feel like they've been beaten with a bag of wet laundry?

I don’t normally post pet pictures but, c’mon, how could I not post this one?!?

There are many reasons why Christopher Moore is one of my favorite authors. The below is one of them.

Science and the Public I was awarded my Ph.D. in Philosophy in 2007. Early in my Ph.D. program, I mentioned to a more senior graduate student that I was interested in how science relates to society. This student explained t...

Check out my post in the APA's Public Philosophy Blog on the idea of "responsive science"--addressing science's obligations to society by combining diversified professional participation and increased public participation in science. #philsky #philsci #scicomm #science

#evbio #hpbio

I invented a game. It’s called 4 x 3.

It’s like connections except that there are three words in each category, there are four categories, and one word is in all four categories.

Easy mode is when you know the special word. Hard is when you don’t.

Just Sustainability, Re-Post Episode 28A: Shane Epting on philosophy of the city A while back the order of Just Sustainability episodes got a bit disrupted and I skipped posting episodes 28B and 28C. Episodes 28B and 28C are now ready for posting but, since there’s been q…

Just Sustainability #podcast new episode alert! Listen to Shane Epting tell me about philosophy of the city and the role of philosophers in public scholarship:

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I’m of the opinion that protestors should watch more English football. Those fans are really creative with their chants.

Screen grab from eBay of Audre Lorde’s book The First Cities. You can’t see it here but they’re asking for $8,500 plus shipping

Title page of The First Cities. It’s dated 4/68 and signed with the inscription “To A.B. - who has seen the lights in some of these cities go out."

The poem “Coal”, which Lorde says in an interview came to her while riding on the packed subway, pressing through the tubes of human energy pulsing underground beneath Manhattan

Any Audre Lorde nerds in DC should go to Second Story Books and try to set eyes on this signed first edition of Lorde’s rare first book, The First Cities.

When she signed this in 1968, she was 34, a librarian with 2 small kids in an unhappy marriage. She had never taught or given a public speech.

Stopping deforestation is the one of the largest, fastest, cheapest, and most effective climate solutions we have.

Not to mention it’s the best way to stem biodiversity loss, too.

But we don’t give it nearly enough attention.

Let’s change that!

From the block to the world: Black placemaking in New York City over three generations Following scholars of Critical Race Theory and Black Geographies, this article employs a biographical and genealogical methodology to trace trajectories of social, cultural, and political change in...

Employing a biographical and genealogical methodology, this article shows the ways that Black cultural production is a spatial expression: Black placemaking. It also offers insight into the cultural persistence of Black urban communities during the 20th century. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I think folks need to realize (or remember) that spending on research isn't a liability it is an investment.

Poem of the day from the Poetry Foundation:

star poem by Manny Loley

night drapes
stars emit light
around the north star-fire
stars journey
in their wake
stories extend

Thanks to @marshall0i.bsky.social for sharing the information about Sandra Harding.

SANDRA HARDING Obituary (1935 - 2025-03-05) - Amherst, MA - Boston Globe View DR. SANDRA G. HARDING's obituary, send flowers and sign the guestbook.

I hadn’t realized that Sandra Harding died recently. Nearly all of my scholarship applies research and theory that was directly informed by her work. The world is certainly poorer without her on it.

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This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

Does anybody else suspect that all the kids who might have benefited from going to Derek Zoolander’s School for Kids Who Don’t Read Good and Stuff, didn’t get that Heinlein, Huxley, and Orwell were writing warnings not road maps?

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage