UNST 125g Sustainability

last website update: 4/2/12

essay 1: LeGuin short story
reading questions 1: read and outline The Anthropocene article from The Economist (article linked below)
Rob Hopkins transition
Heritage Tree presentation
- slide due in email 4/9
- presentation in class 4/11 (check rubric, below)
reading questions 2: synthesis
The second paper is in the electronic reserve at Millar Library in a file named operatingspace_nature2009.pdf
planetary boundary research and presentations
reading questions 3: What is necessary?
- The profound journey of compassion
- social justice in the OECD
reading questions 4: from challenge to action
- ecological footprint workbook
reading questions 5: the carbon wedge concept
reading questions 6: water
reading questions 7: food
reading questions 8: stewardship
reading questions 9: Flood!
- student action in Quebec (video)
reading questions 10: economics: challenger perspectives
reading questions 11: global challenges, UNHDR 2011
- part two: the pitch
- UN Human Development Program index mapping tool
final

The Economist: The Anthropocene
Jenkins, M. The Last of the Cave People
The Post-Carbon Reader
- Bomford Getting fossil fuels off the plate
- Hopkins What can communities do?
- Postel Water: adapting to a new normal
Klugman, J. UN Human Development Report 2011