Ecology and Economics

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Advanced Posting:

If you want to develop long, complex posts you should develop them with a word processor. I use MS Word, but don't like the extra stuff that Microsoft has embedded in their documents. So I like to "reconfigure" my TypePad input to dis-empower MS Word. Here's how: Go to the TypePad post entry area. Look to the bottom of the page and click on "Customize the display for this post." Select the "plain text" mode.

Note that when dealing with longer documents, if you don't reconfigure the input, TypePad may flip you from WYSIWYG ("What you See is What you Get," TypePad's default input) into HTML edit mode. Unless you understand HTML codes you’ll be lost. Worse, if you try things to get back to WYSIWYG mode, you may lose your input.

While you are in "Customize the display for this post," scroll down and select "Extended Post" under "Post Screen Configuration"—which will allow you to break longer posts into a "post introduction" that people will see automatically and "post continuation" which is a click away for casual readers.

Ecological Economics Blog Introduction

We are hopeful that this conversation will take root, grow, and blossom. This is a multi-author blog, with my main role being web administrator/minor contributor. Some of our other blogs touch sometimes on issues of sustainability. Daniel O'Connor's Catallaxis does so, as does my Economic Dreams - Economic Nightmares. So does Steve Keen's Debunking Economics and David Jeffery's Okios.  Sometimes we will cross-post from our other blogs, but mainly the Ecological Economics discussion will be here.

In addition to discussing Ecological Economics, we intend to compliment or counter stuff that appears ever-more-frequently on the Environmental Economics weblog. Note that Environmental Economics has its own URL. We can site-map too, and mask the 'forestpolicy' stuff that now sits on the URL for this trial version of this Ecological Economics blog. Or we may want to move it elsewhere and let someone other than I be administrator. Mostly I just want the conversation to flourish.

To see just how popular the Environmental Economics blog has become, try this link: http://www.env-econ.net/2005/10/blog_stats_stra.html