Anthropologist (PhD), Engineer (PE), Applied Evolutionist, Focused on evolutionary & HCD approaches to built environment & beyond. Views my own. He/him
Substack - Dispatches From Oz: https://open.substack.com/pub/marcelharmon67
“The lyrics, along with Bowie’s and Mercury’s iconic voices, have frequently been in my head since Trump won the election last November (and the Kansas GOP increased its legislative supermajority).”
Nature walks, punching Nazis, protecting the trans community, ridiculing Trump/MAGA, & Grosse Pointe Blank
https://open.substack.com/pub/marcelharmon67/p/america-under-pressure?r=1mijet&utm_medium=ios
“The lyrics, along with Bowie’s and Mercury’s iconic voices, have frequently been in my head since Trump won the election last November (and the Kansas GOP increased its legislative supermajority).”
Nature walks, punching Nazis, protecting the trans community, ridiculing Trump/MAGA, & Grosse Pointe Blank
https://open.substack.com/pub/marcelharmon67/p/america-under-pressure?r=1mijet&utm_medium=ios
Spinelessness a critical trait for defending such things as betraying allies, changing the world order, undermining democracy, promoting authoritarianism and dictators, shredding the constitution, increasing the wealth gap, and the list goes on.
https://open.substack.com/pub/marcelharmon67/p/rise-of-the-republican-invertebrates
The enemy from within… is most of us.
https://open.substack.com/pub/marcelharmon67/p/the-enemy-from-within?utm_source=app-post-stats-page&r=1mijet&utm_medium=ios
“Even a partially enacted Project 2025 and Agenda 47 could have devastating impacts on continued efforts to equitably decarbonize the built environment and make it healthier.”
“Let’s stop being too late in doing what needs to be done.”
And per Tim Walz, sometimes it’s just the guns.
“Rigorous, quality academic instruction, career training and character development is not provided to Kansas students as a board member by disrupting SBOE meetings, derailing SBOE and KSDE operations, focusing on culture war issues, disparaging and undermining district teachers, staff, and administrators as a whole, or aligning oneself with anti-public education organizations and legislators who want to defund public education.”
“And beyond the man himself [Trump] will be all of the sycophants he surrounds himself with & the authoritarian conservative machine that has produced Project 2025. The vision of this Mandate for Leadership (as the project’s policy document has been titled - Republicans are full of irony) is to aggressively capture & remake the administrative state to concentrate MAGA Republican power and embed its ideology within our institutions.”
https://marcelharmon67.substack.com/p/dont-give-up-your-voice
Imagine if something like this happened every legislative session. #ksleg #prosocial
Using the power of stories to build connections, understanding and empathy, supercharge the superpower of design, and promote prosocial collective action.
We're all made of stories - Charles de Lint
#Stories #Design #ClimateAction #ClimateCrisis #diversity #sustainabledesign #decisionmaking #healthandwellness #ethnography #wildfires #airpollution #airquality #SumOfUs
"Using only common sense to navigate sex & gender is about as useful as it would have been to only use common sense to build the Mars rover Curiosity. In many ways sex & gender are more 'rocket science' than rocket science itself."
#commonsense #commonsenselimitations #ksleg #transgender #Trans #LGBTQIA #transrightsarehumanrights
https://marcelharmon67.substack.com/p/adding-some-curiosity-to-common-sense
Thoughts on the Lawrence school district's budget concerns, the potential for closing additional neighborhood schools, & how this relates to the current & historical actions of #ksleg GOP leadership/members. #ksed
https://marcelharmon67.substack.com/p/lawrences-school-district-budget
If you (GOP #ksleg members) don't realize how hateful your speech is, how ugly these bills are, then have some heartfelt conversations w/ your colleagues who are trans allies. Review the testimony against these bills (vastly outnumbering pro testimony). Read this: https://marcelharmon67.substack.com/p/dear-kansas-legislators. Open your hearts. Please. 2/
#ksleg GOP members - I'm pleading w/ you as the parent of a trans kid, have some compassion. The hateful things you say on the floor in support of these bills is damaging to trans kids. 1/
Yes, masks actually work. But more effort is required on the wearing part when needed.
#mask #masking #maskmandates #maskswork #respirators #maskbehavior #collectiveaction
https://marcelharmon67.substack.com/p/yes-masks-actually-work
Dear Kansas Legislators...
A plea for compassion towards transgender and other LGBTQIA+ youth
https://marcelharmon67.substack.com/p/dear-kansas-legislators
The #AECIndustry should take note & advocate accordingly, informing & applying pressure to legislators & public officials as needed. 4/
This is one example of the attacks on public education that ultimately act as a barrier to school #electrification & improving school facilities overall. The #AECIndustry should take note. 3/
And why I previously wrote this relative to increasing collective #maskwearing. 2/
#masks #publichealth #behavior #behavioralscience
https://marcelharmon67.substack.com/p/the-disregard-of-mask-wearing
Really informative thread on the Cochrane review of masking & handwashing.
"Knowing if/how/why people comply is important. Tools are only useful if people use them. And if there are ways to make them easier to use, we’d benefit from knowing that, too."
Why we need to engage more behavioral scientists (broadest sense of the term) in the effort to improve collective #maskwearing. 1/
#masks #publichealth #behavior #behavioralscience
https://twitter.com/JenniferNuzzo/status/1621881097452666883?s=20&t=lWSCjMF-GBbf6ZSFH_jmfA