Environmental Studies 160 Welcome to Environmental Studies 160 and may the odds be ever in your favor. Just kidding, it would be an over statement to parallel this course to the Hunger Games. So, don’t worry our professors are more kind than their quizzes. If you are worried, I aim to shed some light […]
Hold my Compost, I’ve Got This…
Sending a Left Foot in the Right Direction Already “Deriving benefit” from the time spent bent over computer screens and book pages presents a complicated answer, especially with the consideration that Environmental Studies 160 served as a harsh reality check for many students. I know that it did for me, although what I have learned […]
Rules That can’t be Black and White or Written Linearly
Any Psychologist would argue that humans are creatures of habit; we develop routines, standardize operating procedures, and follow patterns, generally exemplified as going to sleep at the same time every night, followed by waking up the next morning at an equidistant time to the last morning. Paul Steinberg argues on behalf of humans habitual tendencies. […]
Economist vs. Ecologist on the Grounds of Global Welfare
As developing nations continue to materialize at an astonishing rate many questions are raised as to how these nations will develop, but more importantly how will these countries develop sustainably. Many considerations must be made first. How will these nations be governed, how will they affect the global rate of material consumption or CO2 emission, […]
Modalities of Thought in 160
Environmental Studies 160 has taught me that my perspective entering the class and the way I interpret material we learn in class is sometimes uniquely discrepant form others and that I am just one in the diverse pool of thought. It was the distribution in Ecotype beliefs that exposed this reality to me. The survey […]
Romanticists: Their Heads in the Clouds
By Molly Sheridan, Paige Barta and Leela Hornbach Romanticism Introduction Romanticism emphasizes emotion and individualism, while it also glorifies nature in the past. In this context the word nature refers to all biological systems excluding those with any human caused modification. For romanticists, nature also entails all thought that separates human engineered processes form natural […]
Portland Put Into a Climate Change Box: Where Do You Stand?
By: Kat Chester, Paige Barta, Molly Sheridan and Leela Hornbach Introduction: The public opinion of climate change is a topic of rising contention. Our group was tasked with modeling a dialogic form of environmental communication in greater Portland and downtown. As discussed in Mike Hulme’s book, Why We Disagree About Climate Change, there is a lot up for […]