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Evaluation Implications of the Coronavirus Global Health Pandemic Emergency
In this blog, Michael offers his perspective on the implications of the global health emergency for evaluation.
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Know and face the realities of the Anthropocene and act accordingly.
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Blue Marble Evaluation: Premises & Principles
This book introduces Blue Marble evaluation, which provides a framework for developing, adapting, and evaluating major systems change initiatives involving complex networks of stakeholders.
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Michael Quinn Patton
Year
2019
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Blue Marble Evaluation Featured at Esri Geodesign Conference
Walk with Glenn as he discovers the synergies between Blue Marble Evaluation and Geodesign.
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The Interconnection Between the Global and the Personal: A Blue Marble Perspective
One of the principles of Blue Marble Evaluation is connecting the global with the local. This includes connecting the personal with the global, zooming out to understand the big picture of what’s happening in the world and zooming in to our personal actions, ethics, and sense of responsibility. To what extent do individual transformations in our personal carbon footprint matter? In what ways do people think personally about the climate crisis and needed systems transformations?
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Social tipping dynamics for stabilizing Earth’s climate by 2050
Safely achieving the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement requires a worldwide transformation to carbon-neutral societies within the next 30 years. Accelerated technological progress and policy implementations are required to deliver emissions reductions at rates sufficiently fast to avoid crossing dangerous tipping points in the Earth’s climate system.
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Ilona M. Otto, Jonathan F. Donges, Roger Cremades, Avit Bhowmik, Richard J. Hewitt, Wolfgang Lucht, Johan Rockström, Franziska Allerberger, Mark McCaffrey, Sylvanus S. P. Doe, Alex Lenferna, Nerea Morán, Detlef P. van Vuuren and Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
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2020
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BME Book Club - Chapter 2 Discussion
Book Club Recording!
If you missed the first book club conversation, you can listen to the recording here.
Fast forward to minute 2. Michael started with about a 30 minute overview of the book and the first chapter. Then took questions. Some highlights include...
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Michael Quinn Patton
Year
2020
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BME Book Club Discussion - Chapter 2
Join us for a discussion of the second chapter in Michael's book, Blue Marble Evaluation: Premises and Principles. Members can engage in an online discussion here, followed by a live web chat with Michael and other members of the BME network on February 27th at 12pm CST.
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Blue Marble Evaluation: Thinking in Transformational Ways at a Time When We Urgently Need To
The McKnight Foundation has supported the first of the Blue Marble Evaluation innovators — from Michael Quinn Patton and the World Savvy team, to the evaluators embedded in the Global Alliance for the Future of Food and the Collaborative Crop Research Program. This initial Blue Marble Cohort has learned from each other, challenged each other, and is actively providing critical tools and frameworks for the field. Writing on the day of the launch of Blue Marble Evaluation: Premises and Principles in Minneapolis, Jane Maland Cady, Program Director, International – McKnight Foundation, explains that the work has only begun and why it’s important to use this approach to evaluation to address the critical challenges facing our one and only planet.
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48 Years of Alaska's Glaciers
Time-lapse videos of Earth’s glaciers and ice sheets as seen from space – spanning nearly 50 years – are providing scientists with new insights into how the planet’s frozen regions are changing.
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2019
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Climate Emergency from a Blue Marble Evaluation Perspective
The 2019 Oxford Dictionary word of the year is "climate emergency." The word of the year is both retrospective, chosen because of dramatically increased use in both published and social media, but also prospe
