A common theme that I have found myself writing about in the reflection and synthesis posts is that ENVS 160 was a much needed wake-up call. My practices in both my scholarly life and my personal life were not at the level at which I could begin to start addressing issues within the field of […]
The Light of Action at the End of an Uncertain Tunnel
Who Rules the Earth has been a nice way to end out the semester. While many of the books we have read have been quite productive, most focus on how mismanaged environmental action is, the faults in common perceptions and schools of thought about the environment, and the disagreement sown throughout discussions dealing with environmental […]
Commonalities in Tangled Ideologies
Like the field of environmental studies, the many works and topics we have covered in this course, while distinct from one another, clearly are interconnected. By nature, what we discuss is part of an elaborate web that links concepts from reflecting on how we view nature to discussing complex subjects like international material flows. However, […]
No Simple Solution
ENVS 160 has definitely been a wake-up call. Coming into the course I had the notion that while not simple, everything that I viewed as a problem had a clear and correct solution that could be attained. Of course, I did realize that the field of environmental studies was complicated and often uncertain, but I […]