After an analysis-heavy week, we are moving on to actor network analyses. Each one of us contributed a few articles/blog posts/videos to a group Zotero library, and in class we each presented our articles and came up with the main actors. Below is a mind map of our combined actors. We identified the main actors […]
Environmental Theory
This class is an "advanced exploration of major theoretical assumptions underlying environmental studies, including the nature of environment, environmental knowledge (including role of sciences and humanities), and environmental problems and solutions." We discussed major theoretical realms such as knowledge, politics, ethics, and reality, applied them to a situated context by creating and carrying out a praxis project, and developed our own environmental theories.
EcoValues and Big Green Words
This past week we went to the lab to learn about how to perform a factor analysis by using Excel and SPSS. We analyzed data collected by the ENVS 220 class in an EcoValues Survey that they administered to their Facebook friends this past fall. There were approximately The whole concept of factor analysis was […]