Schedule: ENST20902 and ENST20903 | Fall 2011
This Schedule page provides a road map to the implementation of
both
- ENST20902 (CRN40717), Professor Michael Edelstein
- ENST20903 (CRN41335), Professor Wayne Hayes
This is the page you need to follow to keep up with the flow of our
course. See also the course Wiki Bulletin Board.
The schedule may change occasionally, so check back often.
September 1: Orientation and Business of the Course
September 1: After our introductions and some business, our first session
provides a detailed overview of the course to establish expectations and to
assist your planning and preparation.
- Introductions, yours and ours: roster
- Orientation, overview, and business of the course: syllabus, schedule, Wiki Bulletin Board: We
will go over the flow of the course in detail.
- Contact information, especially enst209@gmail.com
- How to do well here: tips and traps; Q. and A.
September 8: Home
- Please view on your own the 2009 film Home.
- The Anthropocene: Are Humans Now Overwhelming the Great Forces of Nature, by Will Steffen, Paul J. Crutzen and John McNeill.
September 12 to 22: Introducing Sustainability
September 12: Professor Edelstein will present the background of Limits to Growth and the origins of World Sustainability, Evolution
of the Concept of Sustainability.
September 19: Historical context: The destruction of tropical forests in the 1980s. We will view in class the documentary, Banking on Disaster.
September 22: We begin to explain what World Sustainability means in the context
of ENST209. We will explain sustainability in a historical context. Please read for class and
be prepared to discuss:
- We will end Banking on Disaster and a role playing game simulating the scenario depicted in the film.
- Powerpoint presentation
on paradigms of sustainability prepared by Professor
Michael Edelstein
September 26: We begin to explain what World Sustainability means in the context
of ENST209. We will explain sustainability in a historical context. Please read for class and
be prepared to discuss:
- Professor Edelstein concluded the background of Limits to Growth and the origins of World Sustainability, Evolution
of the Concept of Sustainability. Please note that the lecture on Limits to Growth is contained within this slide presentation.
- Please review the Powerpoint presentation
on paradigms of sustainability prepared by Professor
Michael Edelstein. We will not have time to review this in class.
- We will discuss the sustainability graphic
organizer.
September 29: Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development (a.k.a.,the Brundtland Commission Report), Our Common Future.
- Browse the Brundtland Report and sample its findings and logic. This is a seminal historical document.
- Read the important Overview, noting the
way that sustainable development was framed and
the language used to define sustainable development,
quoted below. Read the Brundtland section on sustainable development carefully.
Note the Report's succinct
working definition of sustainability: "Humanity has the ability
to make development sustainable to ensure that
it meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future
generations to meet their own needs."
- See Professor Hayes's overview
of Brundtland and the origins of Sustainable Development, which lays out
important concepts for the course. See also my background notes on Brundtland: part one and part two.
- Wiki presentation
on Brundtland by Professor Hayes
- Wiki on Intergenerational
Concerns
- Wiki on Triple
Bottom Line
October 3: The graphic
organizer is due by class time on October 3 as
an attachment to an email to enst209@gmail.com. The assignment
is defined
in the wiki, explained in class, and will be distributed as an email
attachment.
October 3 to October 20: The Global Crisis and The Disabling Analysis
October 3: We will introduce and define the global crisis.
- Lecture: Professor Edelstein explains the Disabling
Dynamic.
- Professor Edelstein's PowerPoint on the Unsustainability
Paradigm, Version 5: Part
I and Part
I.
- Wiki on Limits to
Growth: note links and uploads within this page Professor Hayes, Limits
to Growth
- Professor Hayes presentation: Framing the Disabling Analysis and Statement
of Concern
- Read and study Wolfgang Sachs, Fairness
in a Fragile World: A Memo on Sustainability.
This article is foundational for ENST209 and
must be read carefully. Also see the presentation prepared by Prof. Edelstein to
de-code the article.
October 6: Film: Al Gore: An
Inconvenient Truth, with discussion. We will discuss the Course Enrichment Component experiential learning assignment.
October 10: Lester Brown, Plan B 4.0, Part I.
- Hear Lester
Brown in his own words explaining Plan B.
- Lester Brown, Plan B 4.0, Preface and chapters 1 through 3.
Professor Hayes has copious notes on Brown: notes
supplementing and setting up Brown with sections on Beyond
the Oil Peak, Global
Warming, Natural Systems
Under Stress and on The
Social Divide.
October 13 - October 17: Contaminated Communities
- View and study the important case study close to home
but of national importance: The
Toxic Legacy web site by Jan Barry.
- Michael Edelstein, Contaminated Communities,
chapters 1 - 5.
October 24 - November 21: The Enabling Analysis & the Emergence of Civil
Society
We start the enabling analysis and begin the preparation of your presentations
in this transitional class meeting.
October 24: Introduction to the enabling analysis, civil society organizations, final presentations and paper.
- Read Paul Hawken, graduation
address, University of Portland, May 19, 2009 and his speech
at Bioneers about his book, Blessed Unrest.
- Professor Edelstein will explain the "OE Prize," the Orange County equivalent of the Goldman Prize for sustainability.
- Hayes slide presentation: Getting
Sustainability and his approach
to framing the enabling analysis
- To complement this section,
read Gus Speth's essay at Worldwatch
Institute, section on "Three Paths Into the Future."
- Read Professor Hayes's wiki
page on Civil
Society Organizations.
October 27: Class will attend an on-campus conference, The Aral Sea Disaster. See Professor Edelstein's Aral Sea Disaster web site.
October 31 - November 3: Professor Edelstein introduces Civil Society, Social Learning
and Environmental Justice.
- Please read Edelstein, Contaminated
Communities Chapters 6 and 7.
- Formation of groups and definition of civil society organization projects
November 17 - November 21: Policy Prescriptions for Creating a Sustainable
World
November 17 - 21: Class
activities:
- Professor Hayes provides a Powerpoint presentation to accompany Brown.
- See Offshore Wind Power Line Wins Backing, Matthew Wald, New York Times, October 12, 2010. See also Google backs power cable for N.J. offshore wind, Eliot Caroom, Star Ledger, March 2011. See also Koch brothers declare war on offshore wind, Keith Harrington, Grist, July 15, 2011.
- Professor Hayes's notes on Chapter
4 and Chapter
5, climate and energy. Prof. Hayes makes an overall presentation
on Brown,
Chapters 7-10, pp. 168-268
- Presentation by Prof. Wayne Hayes: How Can We Transition to World Sustainability?
- Conclude the enabling analysis
November 28 - December 15: Student Presentations and Enabling Analysis Paper Due
November 28: Group meetings before final presentations.
The student presentations will conclude World Sustainability. The
presentations will count as 8% toward your grade. We
will assign the sequence and schedule the presentations well in advance. The presentations will occur on December 1, 5, 8, and 12. We will use the class of November 28 to prepare for the presentations. Note: Students must attend all the presentations.
December 5: The Course Enrichment Component experiential learning assignment is due.
The paper
on the enabling analysis is due on December 15, the
assigned exam date for this course.
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