by James Skelly on March 28, 2011
Mini-Lecture #10 has just been posted. In it I ask you to calculate your water usage using the water calculator that you will find at the top of the course home page – you can then post your usage in comparison to the amount the average American uses in the Forum I created below the calculator [...]
by James Skelly on March 21, 2011
Mini-Lecture #9 has just been posted. This mini-lecture looks at the attacks on Libya and the possible key role played by Libya’s oil reserves, as well as the ongoing difficulties at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan. It notes George Monbiot’s fear that instead of nuclear power more coal fired plants will be constructed with much worse environmental consequences [...]
by James Skelly on March 16, 2011
This mini-lecture includes a discussion of BCA’s International Student Conference in strasbourg, France, which explored differences in environmental policy between Europe and the United States, as well as the emerging nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan.
by James Skelly on March 7, 2011
Mini-Lecture #7 has just been posted. I recommend taking a look at the initiative of Joyce merkel in Learning Circle #2 and Christina Hardin in Learning Circle #3, if you would like to see what proposals for the Learning Circle project might look like – as their actions show, it only takes one person’s initiative to [...]