The following article contains research conducted by Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Michigan that is aimed toward analyzing a topic one usually does not associate as having a big influence on the environment–Thanksgiving. The focus of this article is centered around the holiday’s CO2 emissions ranging from the things such as travel to… Read more How Much Environmental Damage Did Your Thanksgiving Dinner Do?
This is a little bit late but in regards to what we talked about last Tuesday here are some articles about wind farming in Maine. When I was touring colleges last year, I toured the University of Maine and one of the things they took us to see was the ‘indoor ocean’ that they made.… Read more Off Shore Wind Farming in Maine
2 good ideas and possibilities for our future as a race is both the book and the movie “The Martian” and the movie “Elysium” “The Martian” is about future mars missions and a man’s survival on a planet where he is legitimately the only human on that planet. “Elysium” is a movie which regards the… Read more Mars and Space Colonization
This report talks about the history and the effect of pesticides on our societies according to the environmental activist Pellow. David N. Pellow is an environmental justice activist, writer of several books on environmental topics and professor of “environmental justice studies”, “race and ethnic studies”, “social change” and “social movements faculty in environmental studies” at… Read more The Effect of Pesticides
Drew Grenier Joe-Yee Yip Peyton Graham Molly Sykes Professor San Martin (Water Energy-Food Nexus) Topics in Environmental History Barandiarán, J. (2018). Lithium and development imaginaries in Chile, Argentina and Bolivia. World Development,113, 381-391. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.09.019 The author Javiera Barandiaran is an Assistant Professor in the department of Global Studies at the University of California… Read more Sociotechnical Imaginaries in Chile, Argentina, and Bolivia
Sergio Dominguez, Benjamin Beliveau, Julia Jankowski, Molly Steinberg Professor San Martin Topics in Environmental History 11/15/18 Chapter 3- Love Canal: Hazardous Waste and the Politics of Fear Judith Layzer first received a bachelor’s degree in economics at the University of Michigan in 1983 and a Ph.D. in 1999 in Political Science from MIT. She has… Read more Hazardous Waste and the Politics of Fear
Ginger Adams, Arthur Bruneau, Anthony Gosselin, and Matthew Withington Paul F. Steinberg and Stacy D. VanDeveer. Comparative Environmental Politics: Theory, Practice, and Prospects. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012. Print. Arun Agrawal is a political scientist who is currently working in the School of Natural Resources & Environment at the University of Michigan. He… Read more Local Institutions and the Governance of Local Forests
Andrew Fauerbach, Thomas King, Amber Lindberg, Elijah Thomas Professor San Martin Topics in Environmental History 11/15/18 Chapter 6 – Electronic waste: The “Clean Industry” Exports Its Trash The author of the book is David N. Pellow who is a Dehlsen Professor, Department Chair of Environmental Studies. He is a very well-versed in the topic… Read more Exporting E-Waste To The Global South
Emily Baker, Brian Brooks, Jacob Fisher, Elise Smutko Professor San Martin HI 2400 16 November 2018 Ialenti, Vincent. “Waste Makes Haste: How a Campaign to Speed Up Nuclear Waste Shipments Shutdown the WIPP Long-Term Repository.” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 74:4 (2018): 262-275. Web. Cat Got Your Nuclear Waste? The author, Vincent Ialenti, is… Read more Cat Got Your Nuclear Waste? Emily Baker, Brian Brooks, Jacob Fisher, Elise Smutko
Evan McCauley, Spencer McClellan, Parshon Sorornejad, Joshua Woodruff Professor San Martin Topics in Environmental History “Deserts, Dogma, and Dryland Development Policy.” The Arid Lands: History, Power, Knowledge, by Diana K. Davis, The MIT Press, 2016, pp. 1–21. Diana K. Davis is a professor in the history department of the University of California, Davis, and… Read more Deforestation and Reforestation, an Analysis of Diana K. Davis’s, “Deserts, Dogma, and Dryland Development Policy”