Author Archives: Tim Waring
Dr. Waring featured on Maine Public Radio’s “Maine Calling” on local food
I was happy to get to join Maine Public Radio’s “Maine Calling” call in radio program on Tuesday, 28th of September, 2021. I joined Mary Alice Scott, the executive director of Portland Buy Local. We discussed the economic, environmental and … Continue reading
Sustainability Interview in Nav Bharat Times
I has the pleasure of being interviewed by Shatakshi Asthana of the Nav Bharat Times about culture, sustainability and climate change. It was a pleasure because she was an informed and curious interviewer. We spoke about the primacy of group-level … Continue reading
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Studying Cultural Adaptation to Climate Change
A team at UMaine and the University of Vermont has just been awarded a $4 million dollar grant to study climate adaptation in using data science tools. As part of the project, Dr. Waring will lead development of cultural evolution … Continue reading
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Food club simulation fits purchasing data with accuracy
Model simulating the club membership as a result of success in cooperative behavior between members. Fitting the model to club membership data over time reveals high accuracy. Continue reading
Proseminar on Evolution of Sustainability, University of Bern, Switzerland [video]
Video of Dr. Waring’s webinar for the University of Bern proseminar on the use of evolutionary social science for solving environmental dilemmas and evolving sustainable social-ecological systems. The Zoom recording is not of the highest quality, and it starts a little late. Continue reading
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ACE Lab: Applied Cultural Evolution Laboratory 