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Session Four
Community & Individual Sustainability
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Overview
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This class entails a continuing discussion of the concepts associated with Ecological Footprint, as well as the introduction of concepts associated with an individual approach to sustainability as introduced through the work of Aldo Leopold in Sand County Almanac . |
Readings |
Web
Readings:
Sand County Almanac (Part One, pp. 3-98). Ecological Footprints, William Rees |
Writing Assignment |
Overview
of a selected environmental problem.
Writing assignment # 2 due to be posted on the Lesson Board by Session 4. Your next writing assignment, Paper 3, is due on Session 7. |
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Field Trip # 2 must be completed and posted to the Lesson board by the end of Session 4 (this session). The next field trip, Field Trip Three, is due by the end of session seven. Click here (Field trip # 3) information on the objectives of this field trip. Post your field trip report to the Lesson Board when you complete your field trip. Remember! Field Trip Three must be completed and posted to the Lesson board by the end of session seven. |
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Discussion
Questions:
Discussion questions due
at end of this class session (Saturday at 5 pm.)
1. Explain how trade & technology serve to limit rather than extend ecological capacity. 2. Compare and contrast : ecological stability and human quality of life. 3. Please define "ecological sustainability." 4. What is Rees talking about when he refers to an "ecological hinterland?" 5. What is the "Second Law" argument and how does it apply to human beings? 6. What is "natural capital?" 7. How is it that Rees argues that economics "can't cope?" 8. So what is our "blind spot?" 9. Please describe Tokyo's "footprint" and how it acts as a "sponge". 10. Identify four ways in which London is seeking to reduce its ecological footprint. 11. What lesson does Leopold teach with his reflections about the "Bur Oak?" 12. Describe what Leopold beheld on the prairie in July? How about in December? Post your answers to these discussion questions on the Lesson Board.
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Journal Writing |
Continue with your journal entries. You will be asked to send your journal in for review during the week of Session 8. Think about the footprint your family or you on your own leave in a year. Look through your trash to see what you use. This might provide you an opportunity for yet another journal opportunity. Similarly, think about going to the grocery store and make note of what you buy that you feel is beyond what it is that your family more nearly needs than wants. Remember that the journal must be in Word Format, must be attached to the Lesson board and in the interest of being opened and read, must not include pictures. |
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