Elijah Thomas, Andrew Fauerbach, Amber Lindberg, Thomas King Professor San Martin ENV2400 06 December 2018 Group Report 3 The author of this article is Luke Cole, a leader in the environmental justice movement during his lifetime, which had argued that many lower class communities have become places where people dispose of their waste. He was… Read more Toxic Waste Dumping on Native American Land
Dale Ross (R) is the mayor of Georgetown in Texas which is the first city in Texas to transition to 100% renewable energy and is the largest city in the country to do so. He talks about how his city transitioned and how it can be an example for the rest of the country. He… Read more Republican Mayor talks about how this city in Texas converted to 100% renewable energy
Lithium ion batteries are becoming more and more common in today’s consumer electronics and electric vehicles. One of the main materials used in the production of lithium ion batteries is cobalt, the majority of which comes form the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This article delves in depth with some of the humanitarian issues involved with the production of lithium ion batteries.
http://fortune.com/longform/blood-sweat-and-batteries/
This article is about the climate change report that came out on Black Friday where scientists are warning that the world will see devastating impacts if we continue to live the way we do. It was completely denied by Trump, and many didn’t even get to see it due to the busyness of the holidays.… Read more Climate Change Report released on Black Friday
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