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About Me

Location:
Brazil, Três Coroas
Current organization:
Florida Institute of Technology
Current role:
Biologist - Environmental Permit Analyst
Gender:
Male
Areas of expertise:
Conservation Biology, Environmental Education, Environmental Management and Impact Analysis
I am:
Change Agent, Concerned citizen, Consultant, Educator/Teacher, Idea generator, Parent, Project manager, Scientist, Student, World traveler
Associations:
North American Association for Environmental Education, Society for Conservation Biology (SCB) , Fulbright Association , Green Party - Brazil
Languages:
English, Portuguese, Spanish
My website links:
Ecopraxis - Environmental Consulting
Universities:
Florida Institute of Technology , Unisinos, ULBRA
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Life, children, nature, the universe, the human mind, science...

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  • A comment on Talk: Aimee Mullins: It's not fair having 12 pairs of legs

    Nov 10 2010: The best of the best! Thank you!

  • A reply on Talk: Hans Rosling: The good news of the decade?

    Oct 8 2010: Mortality index is calculated based on number of deaths per 1000 born. This number falls when among a thousand born, less died. Therefore, mortality cannot go down BECAUSE women have less children, as the reference number is still the number of children born. I say they go hand in hand because of several causes and Hans is showing this means development. Women have less children because they are educated, and less children die, probably because of the same factor: education

  • A comment on Talk: Mitchell Joachim: Don't build your home, grow it!

    Jul 7 2010: It seems to me these are wooden houses, with the exception the wood is alive. Well, isn't the fixed carbon on dead or alive trees the same? The green stuff eventually falls and is decomposed anyway. It just seems way simpler, faster, cheaper, cozier, and prettier to work with sustainable forestry and green roofs. The "meat" idea is plain weird. All in all this is one bold experiment to stimulate thinking outside the box, but I would not recommend letting it influence public policy.

  • A comment on Talk: Kary Mullis celebrates the experiment

    Jan 14 2010: Excellent talk to demonstrate science is socially constructed and that it is reacher in agreements and disagreements, than it is in evidences. It is my belief not many "real" scientists agree with that. =)

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