Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
#sustainability #nexusthinking #vorticaleconomy #ecology #environment #food #energy #water
In this video, I have a conversation with Thomas Culhane about Nexus Thinking, the "Vortical" Economy, and how we think about cities in our pursuit of sustainability. The nexus of food-energy-water and ecology is discussed. His comments on the metabolic rift in society really resonated with me as well.
Dr. T.H. Culhane is the director of the Climate Mitigation and Adaptation Program at the Patel College of Global Sustainability, USF, Tampa where he is an Associate Professor creating curriculum for and teaching courses on "Envisioning Sustainability", "Navigating the Food Energy Water Nexus", "Creating a Zero Waste Circular Economy" and "Mitigating and Adapting to Climate Change through Locally Applied Drawdown Solutions".
T.H. lives off-grid with his wife and baby at the Rosebud Continuum Eco-Science Center in Land O' Lakes, Florida where he and other faculty and PCGS graduate students, local middle and high school students and community members "life-test" the UN Sustainable Development Goals and Drawdown Technologies and share them through video production and Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality Content creation.
Culhane has been a National Geographic Explorer since 2009 and is currently working on a sustainability plan with the Serbian Royal Court, the UNDP and Government ministries in Belgrade. His chief research involves community scale "food-waste-to-fuel and fertilizer" and soil creation projects and he is passionately optimistic that, working with natural processes, this generation can reverse global warming.
#sustainability #nexusthinking #vorticaleconomy #ecology #environment #food #energy #water
In this video, I have a conversation with Thomas Culhane about Nexus Thinking, the "Vortical" Economy, and how we think about cities in our pursuit of sustainability. The nexus of food-energy-water and ecology is discussed. His comments on the metabolic rift in society really resonated with me as well.
Dr. T.H. Culhane is the director of the Climate Mitigation and Adaptation Program at the Patel College of Global Sustainability, USF, Tampa where he is an Associate Professor creating curriculum for and teaching courses on "Envisioning Sustainability", "Navigating the Food Energy Water Nexus", "Creating a Zero Waste Circular Economy" and "Mitigating and Adapting to Climate Change through Locally Applied Drawdown Solutions".
T.H. lives off-grid with his wife and baby at the Rosebud Continuum Eco-Science Center in Land O' Lakes, Florida where he and other faculty and PCGS graduate students, local middle and high school students and community members "life-test" the UN Sustainable Development Goals and Drawdown Technologies and share them through video production and Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality Content creation.
Culhane has been a National Geographic Explorer since 2009 and is currently working on a sustainability plan with the Serbian Royal Court, the UNDP and Government ministries in Belgrade. His chief research involves community scale "food-waste-to-fuel and fertilizer" and soil creation projects and he is passionately optimistic that, working with natural processes, this generation can reverse global warming.
