Readings:
Week 1: 9/2/12 Intro to Ashley Taylor
Week 2: 9/5/12 Cronon “The Trouble with Wilderness” + Sullivan The Meadowlands
Week 3: 9/12/12 Abbey Desert Solitaire
Week 4: 9/19/12 Landscape Course Connection
Week 5: 9/25/12 Coates Nature (preface and ch. 1-5)
Week 6: 10/2/12 Coates Nature (ch. 6-9)
Week 7: 10/10/12 Robbins et al Environment & Society
Week 8: Fall Break
Week 9: 10/24/12 Foer Eating Animals
Week 10: 10/31/12 Hodgkinson: How to be Idle
Week 11: 12/15/12 Vandermeer & Perfecto: Breakfast of Biodiversity
Week 12: 11/14/12 Robbins: Lawn People
Current Events:
Week 2: 9/2 Colorado Wildfires
Week 3: 9/12 Ocean Desert
Week 4: 9/17 Earthquake on Costa Rica
Week 5: 9/25 Building a Bat Cave to Battle a Killer
Week 6: No current event
Week 7: Obama designates Chimney Rock a National Monument
Week 8: Fall Break
Week 9: 10/24 Serious Green Energy
Week 10: No current event
Week 11: I drafted a current event about a British solar project and forgot to finish and post
Week 12 : 11/14 Veggie Gardens Disobey City Code
Week 13: Thanksgiving Break
Week 14: No Class!
Week 15: Presentation
Week 16: 12/15 Costa Rica to Ban Sport Hunting
Project:
Week 2: 9/4 Project Ideas
Week 4: 9/18 Project Update
Week 6: 10/3 Solar Energy Proposal
Week 10: 10/30 Solar Project Timeline
Week 15: 12/5 Solar Presentation