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Tom Wessels (born 1951) is a terrestrial ecologist and a professor at Antioch University New England in the Department of Environmental Studies, where he founded a master's program in conservation biology. He is the author of five books and is an active environmentalist.
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- Simply complex systems tom wessels tedxwindham
- To restory america tom wessels part 1
- Professional Biography
- Social comment
- Books
- References
To restory america tom wessels part 1
Professional Biography
Wessels earned a BS in wildlife biology from the University of New Hampshire and a MA in ecology at the University of Colorado. Wessels went directly into academia, beginning with a post at the now defunct Windham College, in Putney, Vermont. In 1978 he became an adjunct faculty member at Antioch University New England and was instrumental in developing numerous courses in the yet very young Environmental Studies Department. He became a core faculty member at Antioch in 2000.
In addition to teaching at Antioch, Wessels has traveled on expedition to Iceland with Haraldur Sigurdsson. He chaired the Science department for ten years at The Putney School, a boarding high school in Putney, Vermont. He served as the chair of the Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation, a foundation that provides grants and fellowships to promote environmental leadership. Since 1995 he has served as an ecological consultant for the Rainforest Alliance SmartWood Program in the Northeastern United States.
Social comment
In his 2006 book The Myth of Progress, Wessels asserts that the aspiration to sustain indefinite exponetial economic growth is an impossibility on the grounds that it violates three scientific principles: the limits to growth, the second law of thermodynamics and the law of self organization. An updated edition was published in 2013, with expanded discussion relating to the global financial crisis of 2008.