Category: Politics and Society
Joe’s political activities, speeches, writings
Deseret News Letter: Beware the Oil Salesmen
Beware Vernal Oil Salesmen
Twitter, Butterflies, Molecules: Political Action USU 11-2017 IBE 11-10-2017
An invited talk to Biological Engineers urging their involvement in the critical education and awareness of the public and the media.
Deseret News Letter: Rational Humans Should Work Toward a Sustainable Population
Deseret News Letter: A Better Way
Letter urging Univ. of Utah to reconsider accepting Koch $$ for a Quantitative Economics Institute.
A Twitter Story
A Twitter experiment in general science education.
Reality, Fiction, Truth, and Twitter Activism Andrade IBE 4-2017
Plenary invited talk at Institute for Biological Engineering national meeting urging all attendees to get involved in public and media education and in the political process.
Empowering Reality, Rationality, Creativity, Empathy IBE National Meeting Presentation 4-2017
Deseret News Letter: Response to Natalie Gochnour’s Growth Nightmare
Letter in response to Salt Lake Valley growth mania.
Seething with Anger: The Richfield Reaper Letters To The Editor
Letter to Utah rural paper serving coal mining region arguing state should be providing services to those impacted by the diminishment and demise of coal.
Remarks on Behalf of Utah’s Coal Miners and Planet Earth, at HEAL Utah Press Conference for Governor’s Energy Development Summit
Remarks at a Press Conference regarding coal leasing in Utah.
Spoken Comments at Coal Leasing Session by Dept of the Interior, BLM in Salt Lake City, UT
Written testimony to BLM public input session on coal leasing in Utah.
State Change: A Chemical Fantasy
Essay 9-2014 Activism, Revelation, Change
Investigative Journalism, Curiosity, Leonardo da Vinci, and Mark Twain
Presentation to high school journalism class on investigative and critical reporting.
Letters and Media Comments, Spring and Summer 2014
Leonardo da Vinci – The Man, The History, The Lessons
Presentation at The Leonardo on da Vinci.
Assumptions, Ideologies, Realities: Action from 1776 to today
Talk to an environmental economics class taught by Prof. Hans Ehrbar
The Run: An Experiment in Democracy
Report on Andrade’s candidacy and run for US Congress, Utah District 2, 2012.
The Call: Towards Personal Independence and Responsibility
Pamphlet dealing with personal philosophy, responsibility, and civic duty, targeted to teens and youth.
11-2012 District 2 Congress Run Forms Media
Run for US House, Utah District 2: Forms, media, documents, even sample ballots.
Visual Values: Political Candidates’ Values Matter
A visual, graphical means to assess and evaluate the values of individuals, especially political candidates, using a multi-factorial approach and Rose Plots.
Visual Values Project
Values Worksheets Rose Plots 2012
Worksheets, Instructions for Visual Values estimates and plots.
Visual Values Project 2011
Visual Values provides a modern visualization approach to the 12 basic Values of current political candidates. Each value is estimated on a 1 – 9 scale, resulting in a 12 Value pattern.