Class 3 / IDS 3920

Sustainability I:  Introduction to Global Environmental Problems


  If we do not succeed in putting our message of urgency through to today’s parents and decision makers, we risk undermining our children’s fundamental right to a healthy, life-enhancing environment.  Unless we translate our words into a language that can reach the minds and hearts of people young and old, we shall not be able to undertake the extensive social changes needed to correct the course of development.

-Gro Harlem Brundtland, Chairwoman World Commission on Environment and Development

 

Reading

You have challenging and technical reading this week as we gain an overview of the complexity of “interlocking crises and the seriousness of environmental problems.  The concept of sustainability is introduced.  Consult your syllabus to see that we will be reading "State of the World 2003" over the next few weeks..  Your reading is for understanding and to prepare to write a paper due in Class Five.  Write down questions to bring to the next class small group discussions.

  • Review State of the World 2003, Ch 3-7Êfor next week (review not read.)

Prewriting

Think about which environmental problem from State of the World 2003, chapters 3-7 you would like to write on in your next short paper due in Class Five.
 

Web-siting

You can access information on APA style at http://www.apa.org/journals/webref.html.
 

On Campus Field Trip Preparation

As you move across campus this week think about what you would like to learn.  Raise questions we can discuss on our field trip.  Perhaps you wonder how we impact the Estero Bay watershed . . . or how the water moves across this land . . . or if panthers live here . . . or what the name of that plant is.
 

Journalling

Please continue to work in your journal responses to reading, writing, field trips, pre-writing your next short paper, drawings, personal reactions are all welcome.
 

Preparing for Discussion

Please come prepared to discuss the John Dewey reading from Class Two.

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