Readings
Week 1: 1/18 Introduction
Week 2: 1/25 The Meadowlands, Robert Sullivan and Cronon’s Ideas of Wilderness
Week 3: 2/1 Desert Solitaire, Edward Abbey
Week 4: 2/8 Nature, Peter Coates, Chapters 1-5
Presentation Week, Reading was divided between Sarah D’Alexander and I.
Week 5: 2/15 Nature, Peter Coates, Part 2
Week 6: 2/22 Environment and Society, Robbins, et al., Chapters 1-8.
Week 7: 2/29 Environment and Society, Robbins, et al., Chapters 9-14.
Week 8: 3/7 Eating Animals, Jonathan Safran Foer.
Week 9: Spring Break
Week 10: 3/21 How to be Idle, Hodgkinson.
Week 11: 3/28 Breakfast of Biodiversity, Vandermeer and Perfecto
Week 12: 4/4 Lawn People, Robbins
Current Events
Week 2: 1/24 EPA Enforces MATS
Week 3: 1/31 Air Pollution in China
week 4: 2/8 Insurance Companies and Climate Change
Week 5: 2/22 Risk Assessment of Climate Change and the West Coast
Week 6: 2/27 TransCanada News
Week 7: 3/7 Hydrocarbons found in Zooplankton
Week 8: 3/21 Ogallala Aquifer
Week 10: 3/28 New York City’s Waste
Week 11: 4/4 North Korea’s Environment
Project Updates
