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UNIT/DATE |
TOPIC |
READINGS |
ASSIGNMENTS |
Part I: Concepts
T April 1 |
The perception of crisis |
Ehrlich
Hardin
Schellenberger and Nordhaus |
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Th April 3 |
Population Dynamics |
Livi-Bassi
Malthus
Keyfitz |
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| T Apr 8 |
Scale |
Levin
Berry |
Carbon budget exercise posted
Population projections exercise due |
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Th Apr 10 |
System dynamics |
Smil
Francis |
Form project groups
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W Apr 15 |
No Class Today |
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Environmental crisis paper due |
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Th Apr 17 |
Environmental Modeling |
Levins
Wackernagel and Rees
Pilkey and Pilkey-Jarvis |
Scale or Sustainability paper posted |
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T Apr 22 |
Sustainability |
Brundtland
Solow
Orr |
Carbon budget exercise due |
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Th Apr 24 |
Resilience |
Holling and Gunderson
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M Apr 28 |
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Scale or Sustainability paper due |
Part II: Farms
T Apr 29 |
Historical Agroecology |
Altieri
Agriculture slides |
Preliminary group proposals due
Farming paper posted
Nitrogen exercise posted |
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Th May 1 |
Input-Output |
Smil
Heilig
|
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T May 6 |
Monoculture
The Organic Movement |
Pollan
Fargione |
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Th May 8 |
Modeling a Dairy |
Dupuis
Farm Friends
Ecology 2007, 2008
VeenHuizen |
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Sat May 10 |
Dairy Field Trip |
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T May 13 |
Wrapping up the farm |
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Nitrogen exercise due |
Part III: Recycling
Th May 15 |
Urban Waste Streams |
EPA Waste
Brown
Metro
Schut |
Farming paper due
Recycling paper posted
Recycling exercise posted |
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T May 20 |
Life-Cycle Assessment |
Rosselot and Allen
Hansen
EPA Modelling |
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Th May 22 |
Politics of Trash |
Hsu |
Group project progress reports |
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T May 27 |
Recycling Field Trip |
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Th May 29 |
Wrapping up Recycling |
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Recycling exercise due |
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M June 2 |
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Recycling paper due |
Part IV: Finishing
T June 3 |
Wisdom |
Ellis
Turner
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Th June 5
12:30-3:20 |
Final Group Presentations |
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T June 10 2:30-5:30
2:30-5:30 |
Final Group Presentations |
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Th June 12 |
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Final group papers due |
