Strap in. You’re in for a bumpy ride. ENVS 160 will challenge all your beliefs and expectations about the environment. It will not be a lecture-based class with endless note-taking and Powerpoints. Nor will it be endless streams of facts about the environment systems and the reasons behind climate change. It will challenge all your […]
To ENVS 220 and beyond…
It seems somewhat foolish to admit but my concern for the environment and the impending doom of climate change was not the driving force behind my interest in Environmental Studies. Prior to this course I was under the misconception that its content would be somewhat revisionary for me, a focus more on the workings of […]
If You Can’t Solve a Problem, It’s Because You’re Playing By the Rules
Our last text of the ENVS-160 course: Who Rules the Earth by Paul Steinberg is centred around the idea of scaling up (Steinberg, 2015) when dealing with environmental issues and the future of sustainability. Steinberg seeks to examine the environmental problems of our time through a social-science lens, by looking at the idea of “social rules” […]
Seen that, heard that, know that.
ENVS-160 has required to us to examine different texts throughout the semester. There has been a significant and distinct thread of common concepts that have been apparent in many of the texts. It is possible to make visible and clear connections between many of the author’s ideas and views, despite the differences in their scholarly […]
“Check it out, I’m turning green!” Birch plz.
My plan to major in Geography was stopped in its tracks by the lack of a Geography major at Lewis & Clark. So naturally I turned to Environmental Studies as the closest alternative. ENVS-160: Introduction to Environmental Studies was seen as just a stepping stone into tapping away at the looming wall of course requirements […]