At this link, you will find the writeup to the ENVS 220 lab #6, which challenged students to compare global vs. local and positive vs. negative for popular environmental literature.
Summary
In this lab, each lab team chose a different work within the popular environmental literature genre. Ultimately, our goal was to quantitatively observe how these books (around 12 in total with lab groups combined) approached environmental issues; were they global vs. local? Optimistic or pessimistic? In creating a standard methodology to “rate” these books, we could get an idea of how popular environmental literature as a genre approached environmental issues in global/local, positive/negative views.