Jonathan J. Halperin
Jonathan J. Halperin
Designing Our Future. Together.

Ecosystem and Economics

For how long do we think we can continue the mental shell game of building economic success today based on externalizing the costs of critical natural inputs (water, air, carbon sequestration and so forth)?

The Sustainability Principle

Wednesday, July 27, 2011
In my closing remarks at the Sustainable Food Laboratory Summit I explained that I did not think sustainability was a goal, a metric, or even an approach to doing business. Rather, it is a principle. And it has at its core a fundamental rethinking of space and time.
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Case Study: Hope in a Changing Climate

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

While serving as executive director of the Environmental Education Media Project Jonathan Halperin managed the creation of Hope in a Changing Climate, the award-winning documentary screened in Copenhagen at COP-15 and broadcast globally by BBC World.

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Geology and The Bottom-Line

Friday, June 24, 2011
Hannah Jones, VP of Sustainable Business and Innovation at Nike, had the most memorable lines among dozens of speakers at two recent conferences, the “Ceres Conference 2011: Igniting Innovation, Scaling Sustainability” and The Conference Board’s “Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability” gathering in Washington, DC
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Are you Handling or Mishandling the Climate Challenge?

Friday, June 10, 2011
The issue of our time is framed for failure.
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The Future of Nuclear Power

Thursday, March 31, 2011
Letter to the Editor, The New York Times, March 31, 2011
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Magic Realism in The Gulf of Mexico

Thursday, June 10, 2010
We are in an historical moment. So much needs to be said. Yet words seem so inadequate, so futile -- so much talk as oil explodes from the sea floor.
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Telling the Story

Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Flying back from Montana, as the snow-covered mountaintops merge with the clouds, I ponder the wide-ranging discussions, topics, and personalities at the International Wildlife Film Festival.It was deeply rewarding and humbling to accept our award on behalf of the whole team that made, marketed, and funded “Hope in a Changing Climate.”
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Tilting at Windmills?

Thursday, April 29, 2010
Sandwiched between front-page headlines today in the New York Times--one on the approval of wind farms off the Massachusetts coast and the other on progress of the financial reform bill to reign in Wall Street excesses—was the story of the Gulf Coast oil slick. As a thematic collage of our moment, it was arresting in its depiction not only of the renewable energy economy emerging from the goo of the fossil fuel era, but also in the juxtaposition of old money and new.
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What’s An Ant Worth?

Monday, April 26, 2010
Listening just now to E.O. Wilson, the esteemed biologist, talking about the sophistication of ant colonies I am reminded of an energized conversation I had some years ago on this topic.
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Time

Friday, April 16, 2010
Give or take a few hundred-thousand years, the period of greatest volcanic activity on planet earth occurred about 200,000,000 years ago and lasted for about 600,000 years. During this time, the Atlantic Ocean was formed. The first airplane flew along the shore of that ocean in 1903. And today, a volcanic eruption in Iceland has grounded some 28,000 airplanes across Europe, reminding us of how different human time is from either evolutionary or geologic time.
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Jerusalem

Jonathan Halperin asks important questions, forces you to think strategically with an outcome orientation, and isn’t afraid to totally re-imagine the way of doing something to achieve desired objectives. Working with Jonathan to plan our annual conference of thought-leaders in food and other impact programs of the James Beard Foundation for several years has been an enlightening and rewarding experience. We feel smarter and more effective for having worked with him.

Mitchell Davis
Executive Vice President, The James Beard Foundation
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