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IPE 1013 Consumption and the Environment

IPE 1013 Consumption and the Environment. A Course on Consumption and the Environment as an Entry Point to Practicing Sustainability The Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Environment (IPE) program at the University of Oklahoma. Background.

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IPE 1013 Consumption and the Environment

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  1. IPE 1013 Consumption and the Environment A Course on Consumption and the Environment as an Entry Point to Practicing Sustainability The Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Environment (IPE) program at the University of Oklahoma

  2. Background • Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Environment Program initiated in 1993 • Developed by 4 OU faculty from 4 Departments (Botany /Microbiology, Philosophy, History of Science, Political Science) • Campus politics prevented naming the program Environmental Studies • Funded by NEH/NSF/FIPSE Grant • 5 course minor • IPE 1013 developed as the Introductory course with General Education Social Science credit • Deborah W. Dalton appointed Professor and Director of IPE Program 2004 • Asked to develop major by Dean of College of Arts and Sciences • Major currently under Planned Program option • First students in major Fall 2005 • IPE 1013 Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Environment • Course first offered 1994 • 1994-2003 course taught by three faculty from different departments • Topic varied according to interests of faculty • Course content changed to Consumption and the Environment Fall 2004 • Team taught by Dalton and adjunct faculty member Theresa Coffman –Rodriguez • Taught live each fall semester • Online course developed and taught by Coffman-Rodriguez starting in Spring 2006 • Live course offered every fall, current seat limit 90 (564) • Online course offered every spring, seat limit 30 (143)

  3. Course Goals In this course, you will be introduced to various aspects of consumption and its impacts on the environment, as well as some basic information on environmental processes and problems that will have to be addressed during your lifetimes. While this course is focused on consumption and the environment in the United States and North America, it is not possible to separate the local, regional and global with respect to either consumption or the environment. The intentions of this course are: • To introduce you to patterns and levels of consumption in North American mainstream society; • To introduce you to the environmental impacts of these consumption patterns and levels; • To help you understand more about your own patterns of consumption; • To enable you to make informed decisions about your own consumption in order to reduce environmental impacts, if you so choose. https://learn.ou.edu/index.asp

  4. Fall 2011 Live Version Unit I Newman The Newman’s Own Organics Guide to the Good Life Reading quiz must be completed online by 11:30 PM Thursday Sept. 15 Week 1     August 23 & 25     Introduction and Overview Week  2    Aug 30 & Sept 1   Assessing the Impacts of Consumption  Week 3     September 6 & 8    Consumption and WasteGROUP DISCUSSION on personal consumption and footprintsWeek 4     September 13 & 15    Consumption and Toxics Unit IISorensen Seven Wonders for a Cool Planet AND Ryan & DurningStuff: The Secret Life of Everyday ThingsReading quiz for both must be completed online by 11:30 PM Thursday Sept. 29 Week 5    September 20 & 22     Consumption and Population Week 6    September 27 & 29   Consumption and Resources Unit III Leonard The Story of Stuff: How Our Obsession with Stuff …Reading quiz must be completed online by 11:30 PM Thursday Oct. 20Week 7     October 4 & 6      Food and AgricultureMid-Term Exam due in drop box by 11:30 PM Thursday Oct. 6 Week 8     October 11 & 13  Food and AgricultureGROUP DISCUSSION on eating patterns and habits  Week 9    October 18 & 20  Thermodynamics and Energy

  5. Unit IV Bittle and Johnson Who Turned Out the Lights?Reading quiz must be completed online by 11:30 PM Thursday Nov. 10 Week 10   October 25 &27   Heating, Cooling and Electricity Week 11    November 1 & 3   Peak Oil Week 12    November 8 & 10  Transportation and Sprawl GROUP DISCUSSION on personal transportation habits Unit V Hertsgaard Hot: Living Though the Next 50 Years Reading quiz must be completed online by 11:30 PM Thursday Dec. 1 Week 13    November 15 & 17    Science of Climate Change Week 14    November 22 & 24     Thanksgiving Week     No Class Week 15    November 29 & December 1 Consequences of Climate Change Week 16     December 6 & 8    Stories and End of Course Final Exam is due in drop box Monday, December 12, 11:30 PM

  6. Spring 2011 Online Version SCHEDULE BY UNITSpecific reading and review assignments will be posted under Unit Assignments. Unit I: Intro, Consumption and EnergyWeeks 1 and 2 --The Way we live and its Impacts Week 3 --Concepts of Energy and Fossil Fuels Unit 2:  Food and AgricultureYou will need to rent Food, Inc. and watch this before the end of Week 5.  I do not mind if you watch it together, but each student must write their own review.Weeks 4-9 Spring Break will be during Week 8. Unit 3:  Peak Energy, Transportation, Urban Sprawl, and Global Warmingnote:  this is a short turn around due to spring break - you might want to do some of this work before the break.Week 10 - 14 Unit 4:  The Future and What You Can DoWeek 15 --Meeting the Food, Water and Energy Needs of Seven Billion People Week 16 --What You Can Do FINALS WEEK  -  Final Due, Monday May 9, 11:30 p.m.

  7. Spring 2011 Online TextsRyan & Durning          Stuff: The Secret Life of Everyday Things  John C. Ryan               Seven Wonders - Everyday Things for a Healthier…Annie Leonard            The Story of StuffAnn Vileisis                 Kitchen Literacy Craven, Greg               What's the Worst that Could Happen?  A Rational... Bittle and Johnson      Who Turned Out the Lights?  Your Guide to the Energy Crisis                                                  • Fall 2011 Live TextsNewman The Newman’s Own Organics Guide to a Good LifeSorensen Seven Wonders for a Cool Planet…Ryan and Durning Stuff: The Secret Lives of Everyday Things…Leonard The Story of Stuff…Bittle and Johnson Who Turned Out the Lights?Hertsgaard, Mark Hot: Living Though the Next 50 Years

  8. Spring 2011 Online VersionAssignment                                                            % of Course GradeReading Summaries                                                               35% Discussion Board Participation                                             25% Film Review                                                                            15% Final Exam                                                                              25% • Fall 2011 Live VersionAssignment                                                           % of Course GradeDaily Class Cards                                                                20% Reading Quizzes 20%In-Class Group Discussions                                                 10% Homework Exercises 10%Take Home Mid-Term 20%Take Home Final Exam:                                                         20% The final exam will be comprehensive and will be take-home format to be turned in to the D2L drop box. The last class will serve as a review session. 

  9. 2004 Texts Milbrath Learning to Think Environmentally While There is Still Time. Brower and Leon. Consumer’s Guide to Effective Environmental Choices. Ryan and Durning Stuff: The Secret Lives of Everyday Things. Ryan Seven Wonders: Everyday Things for a Healthier Planet. 2005 Texts Brower and Leon. The Consumer’s Guide… Brown Plan B: Rescuing a Planet under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble. Ryan and Durning. Stuff… Ryan Seven Wonders… 2006 Texts Pollan, Michael. The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals. Ryan and Durning. Stuff… Brown Plan B 2.0… Gore An Inconvenient Truth… 2007 Texts Ryan and Durning. Stuff… Brower and Leon. The Consumer’s Guide… Lappe and Terry. Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen. Heinberg. Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World. Alvord. Divorce Your Car! Ending the Love Affair with the Automobile. McDonough and Braungart. Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things

  10. 2008 Texts Ryan and Durning. Stuff… Ryan Seven Wonders… Pollan Omnivore’s Dilemma… Heinberg The Party’s Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies. Alvord Divorce Your Car… Time, Inc. Global Warming: The Causes, The Perils, The Solutions. McDonough and Braungart Cradle to Cradle… 2009 TextsRyan and Durning Stuff… Ryan Seven Wonders…Goodall Harvest for Hope:  A Guide to Mindful EatingLoux Easy Green Living:  The Ultimate Guide to Simple…Balish How to Live Well Without Owning a Car… Shiva Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate CrisisBrower and Leon The Consumer's Guide… 2010 TextsSorensen Seven Wonders for a Cool PlanetLeonard The Story of Stuff: How Our Obsession with StuffLoux Easy Green Living: The Ultimate Guide to Simple…Goodall Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful EatinBalish How to Live Well Without Owning a Car…Heinberg The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate ofCraven What's the Worst That Could Happen? 2011 TextsNewman The Newman’s Own Organics Guide to a Good LifeSorensen Seven Wonders…Ryan and Durning Stuff…Leonard The Story of Stuff…Bittle and Johnson Who Turned Out the Lights?Hertsgaard, Mark Hot: Living Though the Next 50 Years

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