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Sustainability Freshman Inquiry

Sustainability Freshman Inquiry. Feb. 10, 2011 Jeff Fletcher See also: Daily Log Page. Logistics. Extra Credit Opportunities PSU Social Sustainability Colloquium Friday, Feb 11, 1-3pm, ASRC 660 (Student Rec Center Building) Economics of Happiness . . . and Beyond

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Sustainability Freshman Inquiry

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  1. Sustainability Freshman Inquiry Feb. 10, 2011 Jeff Fletcher See also: Daily Log Page

  2. Logistics Extra Credit Opportunities PSU Social Sustainability Colloquium Friday, Feb 11, 1-3pm, ASRC 660 (Student Rec Center Building) Economics of Happiness . . . and Beyond Angela Rodgers, SSW, and panel Groundwork Portland PSU Party, Feb. 25 Read Collapse Prologue, Ch. 2 (p. 79-119) For Tuesday (reading notes) Mercy Corp Fieldtrip Thursday Feb. 17, 2-5pm (including transportation time), $2.50 each Meet 2:00 at PSU MAX; Catch Yellow Line at 2:08pm. Mentor Lab: Thursday: Story of Stuff (discuss and critiques) Think about preferences for Collapse chapters Tuesday: Executive Summary from HW3 & results of suveys and garbage/recycling room assessments

  3. CollapseHow Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

  4. Think about Collapse • The context of the book • The thesis of the book • The contribution of the book • The method of investigation • The “power” of the results • The influence of the book/chapter • The applicability of the results • Summary of the technical development • Details of any examples

  5. Collapse Chapter Assignments • Chapter 3: The Last People Alive: Pitcairn and Henderson Islands • Chapter 4: The Ancient Ones: The Anasazi and their Neighbors • Chapter 5: The Maya CollapsesChapter 6: The Viking Prelude and Fugues • Chapter 7: Norse Greenland’s Flowering • Chapter 8: Norse Greenland’s End • Chapter 9: Opposite Paths to Success • Chapter 10: Malthus in Africa: Rwanda’s Genocide • Chapter 11: One Island, Two Peoples, Two Histories: Dominican Republic and Haiti • Chapter 12: China, Lurching Giant • Chapter 13: "Mining" Australia

  6. Quiz Discussion • 1) In your own words, explain what Diamond means when he uses the term "collapse"

  7. Possible Answer • Explain what Diamond means when he uses the term "collapse" • “…a drastic decrease in human population size and/or political/economic/social complexity, over a considerable area, for an extended time.” (p. 3)

  8. New Orleans 9th Ward Is New Orleans a modern day Collapse? New Frontline program on New Orleans recovery—one family’s storyhttp://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/katrina/view/

  9. Quiz Discussion 2) List some of the reasons Diamond gives to support the claim that "any people can fall into the trap of over-exploiting environmental resources…" (p. 9)

  10. Possible Answer • List some of the reasons Diamond gives to support the claim that “Any people can fall into the trap of over-exploiting environmental resources…" (p. 9) • (p. 9-10) • Resources seem inexhaustible at first • Signs of resource depletion are hidden in normal (yearly or decade scale) fluctuations • Difficult to get people to exercise constraint on sheared resources (tragedy of the commons) • Complexity of eco-systems makes it hard to predict long term consequences of individual actions

  11. Consumerism • Story of Stuff (21:00) • Questions • Does the video overstate anything? • Can you think of alternative ways of addressing these issues? • Critique • Story of Stuff, The Critique Part 3 of 4 • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgLrZc7cws8 • Does it deal with the central argument of a linear throughput on a finite earth • Part 4 of 4 • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XeW5ilk-9Y&NR=1

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