On Tuesday we all came together again to create a collection of big words for some of the analysis that we did last week.  Our class list of big words was narrowed down to five big words:  purity, techno-optimism, enviro-efficiency, apocalyptic, ecomodernist. I only used questions related to values, so my two words (Classic Hero and […]

This week we have been using SPSS to analyze the statistics from an “EcoTypes” survey that was created last semester with my ENVS 220 class, as well as data from an international environmental survey from 2010.  For the EcoTypes data, I ran correlations between answers to specific questions.  Using the questions with the highest correlations, […]

Starting on factor analysis today, especially combined with the “big green words” and “factor analysis” readings that we have been doing recently made it clear that when we use big words we also have to ask: so what?  Why should anyone care about one big word more than another?  What gives any of the “big […]

Today’s focus on big words connected in my mind.  Before class started, we were each expected to come with our own compilation of big words.  My list looked something like this: environment, sustainability, nature, wilderness, conservative, liberal, progressive, feminism.  The idea behind each of these being to follow the three main components of what makes […]

After my first day of Environmental Theory I realized that there are some logistical similarities between this class and ENVS 220 but other than that, this was going to be an entirely different experience.  I also have been doing a lot of reflecting on the last semester (which I maybe should have posted about…) and […]