Sustainability Book Club: A Cal Poly Faculty Colloquium

 

Program Description

 

From the Center for Teaching and Learning Website

Detailed description (pdf)  

Updated Schedule of Presenters and Readings and list of participants (Word doc download)

 

Materials for the eighth meeting on January 8 2010--Cradle to Cradle by William McDonough

 

Materials for the eighth meeting on December 4 2009--Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer

 

Brad Campbell's Powerpoint

Sustainability Book Club Meeting Notes 4 December 2009.doc

Alypios' notes

 

 Materials for the seventh meeting on November 13 2009--The Necessary Revolution by Peter Senge

 

Presentation and discussion notes

Norm's Powerpoint Presentation

Kate Lancaster's Mindmap of the book

Report on San Luis Obispo Green Business Awards

The fall of BP Renewables

Comments by Alypios

Comments by Kate Lancaster

Review by Alia Institute (referred by Kate)

Review/article in Business Week

 

Materials for the sixth meeting on October 2 2009--In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan

Directions for driving, etc.

Links provided by Hunter

Comments by Alypios on Pollan

 

Materials for the fifth meeting on May 1 2009--Biomimicry by Janine Benyus

 

Minutes of the Discussion provided by Karen Bangs

          Powerpoint on Biomimicry (Alypios)

2002 Outline of Chapters (Steven Marx)

BiomimicryComments.doc (Alypios)

Biomimicry website (San Diego Zoo) (from Norm Borin)

 

Materials for the fourth meeting on April 3 2009--When the Rivers Run Dry by Fred Pearce

 

Minutes of the Discussion provided by Jane Lehr

Two Articles provided by Adrienne Grieve

Reviews of When the Rivers Run Dry by Fred Pearce

Out West, Catching Raindrops Can Make You an Outlaw

Democracy Now! features today on world water developments:

 http://www.democracynow.org/2009/3/23/water_rights_activists_blast_istanbul_world

 http://www.democracynow.org/2009/3/23/dam_politics_indias_leading_activist_medha

Outline of the book and comments (Steven Marx)

Alypios' comments

 

Materials for the third meeting on March 6 2009--Hot Flat and Crowded by Thomas Friedman

 

Minutes of the presentation and discussion provided by Christine Victorino

Chandrika Jaggia's comments on the book and suggestions for three new sustainability courses

Outline of Thomas Friedman's Hot, Flat and Crowded (smarx)

Supplementary Material for Discussion of this book

McKibbenFriedmancontrasts.doc

Comments from Alypios

Comments from Rob Rutherford

Comments from Jonathan Reich

 

Materials for the second meeting on February 6 2009--Deep Economy by Bill McKibben

Follow-up comments on the discussion and conclusions (February14)

Minutes of the discussion revision 1

Links to and excerpts of reviews of Deep Economy

Notes on Deep Economy (smarx)

 

Materials for the first meeting on January 2 2009

“What is Education For?” by David Orr (1991)

Sustainability at Cal Poly, 2008 Biannual Progress Report (pdf)

Cal Poly Sustainability documents

January 2 2009 presentation outline (Word.doc)

January 2 minutes of discussion provided by Christine Victorino (Word.doc)

Rutherford and Marx on Donella Meadows' "Leverage Points"

 

Materials for Developing a UNIV interdisciplinary course on Sustainability

 

Initial plans for the course

 

Jonathan Reich's notes on the development of the EDES program

Jane Lehr's syllabus for WGS 401: Seminar in Women’s Studies – Feminist & Anti-Racist Perspectives on Sustainability and the Environment

"End the University as we Know It," Op Ed in NYTimes April 30 2009

An Initial Search on Interdisciplinary “Introduction to Sustainability” courses (word doc)

Brad Allenby (ASU) syllabus for Fall 2009 FSE 194 "Technological, Social, and Sustainable Systems"

Comment on Allenby by Steven Marx

 

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