Presentations, videos, and educational activities with an emphasis on environmental science and public health

About this site

I originally started this website in July 2012 in order to promote the environmental science lab manual Ecology, Development, and Sustainability. I have now expanded it to share other teaching ideas through videos of science activities and blog entries with emphasis on environmental science and energy measurement. Given that environmental science is the most political field of natural science it is also the most susceptible to agenda-driven ideologies. I support an impartial and fact-driven curriculum that appeals to thoughtful people from all ends of the political spectrum. I believe that conservation of our natural resources is best achieved through more consensus and less coercion, and that only intellectual diversity provides the necessary checks and balances to reach this goal.

About the site name

I chose the name "entropyrider" based on a personal obsession with the second law of thermodynamics. For the record I did not major in physics: I took my first college-level physics class in the Fall of 2012.

About the banner image

I took this picture of the ruins of Angkor Wat while visiting Cambodia in 1999.

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