Sustainability Governance


This semester, we envision a post-carbon future by examining and experiencing ways of being leaders to build resilience in communities. Climate change from burning fossil fuels and peak oil mean a future of enormous changes. Other looming problems include antibiotic, herbicide, and pesticide resistance. It is possible to prepare for these changes in a way that is positive and exciting, improves local and personal resilience, and builds community.

Week Lecture updated: 200617
3/4 Introduction
Self-teaching Talk (p26)  
Syllabus
Undergraduate
3 credits
WED 09:30-12:00
 
3/11 Peak Oil
   Chapter 1
Film: End of Suburbia
Film Screening (p154)  
Review Questions for End of Suburbia
Groups for Project
Notes on Board:
   1, 2, 3
3/18 Film: Power of Community I
   Questions
Film Screening (p154)
Essay 1 Due at beginning of class
Quiz 2
Present Summary  
3/25 Film: Power of Community II
   Questions
Resilience I
   Chapter 2
 
4/1 Holiday    
4/8 Resilience II
   Chapter 2
Diary of an Interesting Year
Web of Resilience (p60)
Essay 2 Due
Present Summary
4/15 Resilience III
   Chapter 3
Project Progress Report: Present
Peak Oil Education Exercises (p.118):
Due BEFORE 4/29
   USA Oil Production I
   USA Oil Production II
   International Oil Productino I
   International Oil Productino II
   Oil Reserves by Country
   Oil Consumption by Country
   Global Oil Consumption
   Oil Imports by Country
   Richard Heinberg 2017 Update
   USA Newspapers 1943
4/22 Relocalization
   Chapter 4
Essay 3 Due
Present Summary
4/29 No Midterm Exam   Peak Oil Education Exercises (p.118):
Due YESTERDAY
    
5/6 Psychology of Change
   Chapters 5&6
Super Potato I (p90)
Climbing a radio tower (YouTube)

Media mentioned in class:
   Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1922) The Worst Journey in the World (epub)
   Derek Hallquist (2017) Denial: The Dad that Wanted to Save the World (YouTube: may not be available, try your phone)
   Michael Moore (2020) Planet of the Humans (YouTube)
5/13 Vision & Visioning
   Chapters 7&8
Super Potato II (p90)
Board Game (p96)
Essay 4 Due
Present Summary
Your Board Games
5/20 Open Space (p168)
Open Space Results
Essay 5 Due
Present Summary
Project Progress Report: Vision  
5/27 Transition Concept
   Chapter 10
Productive Meetings (p164)
 
6/3 Essay summaries
Project Progress Report
Essay 6: Press Release (p160) CANCELED
Essay 7 Due
Present Summaries
Project Progress Report:
   Recommendations & Suggestions
 
6/10 Starting Transition
Post Peak Tour (p101)
 
6/17 World Cafe (p184)
   Table summaries  
 
6/24 Project Presentations  
7/1 No Final Exam   Final Written Report Due BEFORE 7/1
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