Dandy Digital Portfolio

Radiant Readings

Week 1: 1/18 Personal Introduction

Week 2: 1/25 The Trouble with Wilderness and “The Meadowlands” (William Cronon, Robert Sullivan)

Week 3: 2/1 Desert Solitaire (Edward Abbey)

Week 4: 2/8 Peter Coates Nature (preface and ch. 1-5)

Week 5: 2/15 Peter Coates Nature (ch. 6-9)

Presentation Week with the Amazing and Marvelous Andrea McVay

Week 6: 2/22 Robins et al Environment & Society (ch. 1-8) 

Week 7: 2/29 Robbins et al Environment & Society (ch. 9-14)

Week 8: 3/7 Foer Eating Animals

Week 9: 3/14 Spring Break: Mission Trip to Apalachin, NY

Week 10: 3/21 Hodgkinson: How to be Idle

Week 11: 3/28 Vandermeer & Perfecto: Breakfast of Biodiversity

Week 12: 4/4 Robbins Lawn People

Current Events

Week 2: 1/25 Hope for Saving All Species

Week 3: 2/1 Psychological Impacts of City Life

Week 4: 2/8 Beijing: When you go, bring a mask

Week 5: 2/15 The Danger of Wildfires

Week 6: 2/22 An Ancient Old Bloom

Week 7: 2/29 Threat to Life of Fishing?

Week 8: 3/7 It’s a Shaky Situation

Project Updates

Project Ideas

Project Update

Project Proposal

Final Evaluation

Reading Postings:

The Meadowlands, Robert Sullivan

http://environmentalgeography.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/rethinking-wilderness-2/

 Desert Solitaire, Edward Abbey

http://environmentalgeography.wordpress.com/2012/02/01/desert-solitiare/

Nature, Part 1, Peter Coates

http://environmentalgeography.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/nature-a-scattered-history/

Nature, Part 2, Peter Coates

http://environmentalgeography.wordpress.com/2012/02/15/nature-part-2-13/

My Presentation: Environment and Society, Part 1, Paul Robbins, John Hintz, and Sara Moore

http://environmentalgeography.wordpress.com/2012/02/22/enviroment-and-society/

Environment and Society, Part 2, Paul Robbins, John Hintz, and Sara Moore

http://environmentalgeography.wordpress.com/2012/02/29/enviroment-and-society-whitetail-deer/

Eating Animals, Jonathan Safran Foer

http://environmentalgeography.wordpress.com/2012/03/07/eating-animals-27/

How to Be Idle, Tom Hodgkinson

http://environmentalgeography.wordpress.com/2012/03/21/idleness-2/

Breakfast of Biodiversity, J. Vandermeer & I. Perfecto

http://environmentalgeography.wordpress.com/2012/05/07/breakfast-of-biodiversity-22/

Lawn People, Paul Robbins

http://environmentalgeography.wordpress.com/2012/04/03/crazy-lawn-people-2/

Current Event Postings:

Ship Wreck off Italian Coast, potential environmental risk of oil spill

http://environmentalgeography.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/italy-risks-worst-environmental-disaster-in-decades/

Invasive Pythons in Flordia Everglades

http://environmentalgeography.wordpress.com/2012/02/01/invasive-pythons-in-flordia-everglades/

Environmental Impacts of cloning seeds

http://environmentalgeography.wordpress.com/2012/02/15/cloning-seeds-good-or-bad/

Bubbles used in underwater oil drilling to help save the whales

http://environmentalgeography.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/more-bubbles-save-the-whales/

Pesticide Runoff Kills Fish on P.E.I.

http://environmentalgeography.wordpress.com/2012/04/03/pesticides-kill-fish-on-p-e-i/

Project Postings:

http://environmentalgeography.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/artistic-recycling-bins/

http://environmentalgeography.wordpress.com/2012/02/14/recycling-the-artistic-way/

http://environmentalgeography.wordpress.com/2012/02/29/artistic-recycling-bins-2/

 

Portfolio: Final

Readings

Sullivan, Meadowlands

Abbey, Desert Solitaire (presented)

Coates, Nature Part 1

Coates, Nature Part 2

Robbins, Environment and Society Part 1

Robbins, Environment and Society Part 2

Foer, Eating Animals

Hodgkinson, How to be Idle

Vandermeer, Breakfast of Biodiversity

Robbins, Lawn People

Environmental Issues 

Current Event 1

Current Event 2

Project

OWU Composting: Presentation

Lily’s Digital Portfolio

Readings

Week 1: Jan 18 Introduction

Week 2: Jan 25 The Meadowlands: Wilderness Adventures at the Edge of a City, Robert Sullivan

Week 3: Feb 1 Desert Solitaire, Edward Abbey

Week 4: Feb 8 Nature, Peter Coates (Part 1)

Week 5: Feb 15 Nature, Peter Coates (Part 2)

Week 6:Feb 22 Environment and Society, Robbins, et al., (Part 1)

Week 7: Feb 29 Environment and Society, Robbins, et al., (Part 2)

Week 8: March 7 Eating Animals, Jonathan Safran Foer (Presenter)

Week 9: SPRING BREAK

Week 10: March 21 How to be Idle, Tom Hodgkinson

Week 11: March 28 Breakfast Of Biodiversity: The Political Ecology of Rain Forest Destruction,. Vandermeer & I. Perfecto

Week 12: April 4 Lawn People, Paul Robbins

Current Events

1) “WD’s Shipments Drop 42% Due to Severe Flooding in Thailand” 

2) “Energy Poverty Remains a Global Challenge for the Future”

3) “Alien Species Invading Antarctica Via Tourist and Scientists” 

4) “Sustainable Sushi See the video. But Don’t Eat the Eel”

5) “32,000 Year Old Plant Brought Back to Life- Oldest Yet” 

6) ” Huge Swarm of Gelatinous Sea Creatures Imaged in 3D”

7) “Visions for the Car – Free City”

8) “Gulf Dolphins Exposed to Oil are Seriously ill, Agency Says”

9) “One Person Adds 37 Million Bacteria to a Room”

Project Updates

Project Ideas

Combined post: Preliminary Proposal, Updates, Findings & Results 

Lydia’s Digital Portfolio

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

Project Ideas

Electronic Waste Project Updates

Project Proposal Updates

Project Proposal

More Updates 

Final Update 

Final Evaluation Silas Jolliff

Readings

Week 2: Wednesday January 25 Cronon “The Trouble with Wilderness” + Sullivan The Meadowlands (entire book)

Week 3: Wednesday February 1 Abbey Desert Solitaire (entire book)

Week 4: Wednesday February 8 Coates Nature (preface and ch. 1-5)

Week 5: Wednesday February 15 Coates Nature (ch. 6-9)

Week 6: Wednesday February 22 Robbins et al Environment & Society (ch. 1-8)

Week 8: Wednesday March 7 Foer: Eating Animals

Week 9: Wednesday March 14 Spring Break

Week 10: Wednesday March 21 Hodgkinson: How to be Idle

Week 11: Wednesday March 28 Vandermeer & Perfecto: Breakfast of Biodiversity (entire book)

Week 12: Wednesday April 4 Robbins Lawn People (entire book)

Presentation

Week 7: Wednesday February 29 Robbins et al Environment & Society (ch. 9-14)

Current events

Toxic Shot

Off roading in the wilderness

Hedgerows in England

Urban Coyotes

Algae used to make plastic

Project Timelines

Project Ideas

Preliminary project proposal

Research

Presentation of project to class

Final Post

Readings:

Sullivan, Meadowlands

Abbey, Desert Solitaire

Coates, Nature

Robbins, Hintz, and Moore, Environment and Society

Hodgkinson, Idle

Robbins, Lawn People (presented with Sophie)

Current Environmental Topics:

Environment Issue 1

Environment Issue 2

Environment Issue 3

Environment Issue 4

Environment Issue 5

Project:

Final Write up (worked with Lily Vanichstian)

Digital Portfolio

Class Readings:

Week 2; January 25: Cronon, “The Trouble with Wilderness” & Sullivan, The Meadowlands & EDUCAUSE, “7 Things You Should Know About” — no notes, just read

Week 3; February 1: Abbey, Desert Solitaire

Week 4; February 8: Coates, Nature (preface, ch. 1-5)

Week 6; February 22: Robbins, et al; Environment & Society (ch. 1-8)

Week 7; February 29: Robbins, et al; Environment & Society (ch. 9-14)

Week 8; March 7: Foer, Eating Animals

Week 9: Spring Break

Week 10; March 21: Hodgkinson, How to be Idle

Week 11; March 28: Vandermeer & Perfecto, Breakfast of Biodiversity

Week 12; April 4: Robbins, Lawn People

Presentation:

Week 5; February 15: Coates, Nature (ch. 6-9) —- with Amanda Boehme

Current Events:

Week 2: Peak Timber Concerns/Dams

Week 3: Major Rewrite of Forest Rules

Week 4: “Roadless Rule” in National Park

Week 5: Monsanto at a Loss

Week 6: Activist Caught in Lie

Week 7: Wildlife Sleuths Confounded

Week 8: Bold Plan to Reshape the Plain

Week 9: Spring Break

Week 10: “The Uproar of Mankind”

Week 11: Step Aside Rainforests

Week 12: Pesticides & Bees

Project:

What it is

Proposal

other research/related material

Digital Portfolio: Sarah D’Alexander

Readings

Week 1: 1/18 Personal Introduction

Week 2: 1/25 The Meadowlands–  Robert Sullivan and Cronon’s Wilderness

Week 3: 2/1 Desert Solitatire– Edward Abbey

Week 4: 2/8 Nature– Peter Coates (Preface and Chapters 1-5)

Presentation Week, Reading was divided between Lydia Hoefel and I.

Week 5: 2/15 Nature–Peter Coates (Chapters 6-9).

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– Jonathon Safron 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 Man-made Environmental Catastrophes

Week 3: 1/31 Humans Threaten Wilderness

week 4: 2/8 Pythons in the Everglades

Week 5: 2/22 Textile Recycling

Week 6: 2/27 International Polar Bear Day

Week 7: 3/7 People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

Week 8: 3/21 White Roofs

Week 10: 3/28 Help the cows!

Week 11: 4/4 Pipe Down!

Project Updates

Project Ideas

Project Update

Project Proposal

GEOG 360 Final Post

Blog Postings On Readings: 

http://environmentalgeography.wordpress.com/2012/04/04/lawn-people-34/ (Presented with Brendan)

http://environmentalgeography.wordpress.com/2012/03/26/how-to-be-idle-33/

http://environmentalgeography.wordpress.com/2012/02/18/death-of-nature/

http://environmentalgeography.wordpress.com/2012/02/12/the-meadowlands-wilderness-adventures-on-the-edge-of-a-city/

Blog Postings On Current Events:

http://environmentalgeography.wordpress.com/2012/04/22/health-impacts-from-gulf-oil-spill-on-children/

http://environmentalgeography.wordpress.com/2012/04/22/dog-poop-more-than-just-an-unpleasant-smell/

http://environmentalgeography.wordpress.com/2012/04/22/k-cups-cause-danger-to-environment/

http://environmentalgeography.wordpress.com/2012/04/22/tsunami-debris-reach-alaska-coast/