Lab Team: Audrey Stuart, Liza Tugangui, Blake Slattengren Background In this lab, we focused on the use of inferential statistics to find patterns between different sets of international data found on the UNEP Environmental Data Explorer. Inferential statistics is a way of comparing and testing different sets of sample data from different variables to see […]
Wisdom Sits In Places
After recently finishing Keith Basso’s ‘Wisdom Sits in Places’ for Intro to Cultural Anthropology, I have been reconsidering place as it applies to Environmental Studies. We discussed at the beginning of the semester about how place provides a method for situating otherwise sprawling research. It provided context for complex environmental issues. While this is certainly […]
Concentration Brainstorm
Figuring out what I want to focus on for my next three years of study in ENVS has been a longer, more difficult process than I had imagined. There are just so many interesting topics under the general field of Environmental Studies that it has been an adventure just to know where to start. Sorting through […]
RVNA Microclimate Lab Report
Lab Team: Liza Tugangui, Audrey Stuart, Blake Slattengren Background A basic concept in Environmental Studies describes that the biotic and abiotic aspects in an environment are incredibly dependent on each other. In this lab, we wanted to focus on the aspects of a microclimate in Riverview Natural Area. According to Lawrence Mendonca of Stony Brook […]
ENVS 160: Challenging Views and Tackling Problems
Coming into ENVS 160, I did not know what to expect. I had always found issues of the environment to be fascinating because of their provocative and widespread effects, yet I had no idea what to do about these issues. After this class, I still don’t know what to do, these issues are bigger than I […]
The Problem of Awareness Lacking Action
A recent, concerning trend that was prevalent in our discussion of lawns last week and bottled water and french fries this week is that people choose to engage in these risky and generally undesirable activities even when completely aware of the risks they possess to the environment or the individual. We discussed how, in studies, […]
French Fries – Resouces
There are 19 ingredients in McDonalds French Fries – The Washington Post This article examines McDonalds marketing strategy to advertise the ingredients found in their french fries. Ferdman suggests that most people going to McDonalds are not concerned with their health when eating there and that McDonalds taking the enjoyment out of fast food by providing […]
The Importance of a Political Economy Perspective
Something that stands out to me is that all of the objects of concern this week and two of the three from last week have discussed the object from a political economy perspective. I did not expect this just from reading the perspectives in the previous section, and political economy seemed more interested in pointing […]
Rhetoric, Rights, and Constructions
This week’s discussions of objects of concern presented several, difficult, multifaceted problems. Everyone could find something of interest to relate to and talk about resulting in some interesting conversations. We began this week with Carbon Dioxide, and one idea that stuck out for me was the use of green rhetoric. Deliberately calling CO2 a type of […]
Evaluating Environmental Perspectives
This past Friday we discussed environmental problems in situated, close-to-home contexts to see how the concepts discussed in Chapters 2-8 relate in real life scenarios and if there are environmental perspectives that are more important than others. Perhaps the perspective that stood out the most to me and in our posts was Institutions. This is because […]