RE: [gep-ed] just a thought
Hi Ron,As someone who often is a guest speaker, just remember that your guest speakers are going through their own little hell of adjusting everything they do right now. So, check your speaker budgets and consider being generous. The usual couple hundred bucks doesn't even begin to cover the time a good speaker spends to prepare a good talk or even just the time they spend coming to your class.So, one more layer of attitude and institutional shift here: compensate people adequately for their time. Do not assume they can afford volunteer time right now. And consider inviting people who are losing work and income right now due to COVID19 and offer them a decent stipend to help them out. That way, you getting help actually helps, not burdens, someone else too.Best to all and stay sane and healthy,SusiSent from tiny phone. Forgive typos Original message From: Ronald Mitchell Date: 3/17/20 11:31 PM (GMT-05:00) To: GEPED Subject: [gep-ed] just a thought One other thought on the whole online learning thing – Zoom or other apps for streaming lectures might be an excellent, low-carbon way to bring in guest speakers. We could each “trade” guest lectures on our well-known subjects (the lectures we can give in our sleep), reducing workload of developing lectures for us while giving our students better content. I am not offering to coordinate this – just a suggestion in case anyone thinks it’s a good idea. Ron Ronald Mitchell, Professor Department of Political Science and Program in Environmental Studies University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1284 rmitc...@uoregon.edu https://rmitchel.uoregon.edu/ IEA Database Director: https://iea.uoregon.edu/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gep-ed+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gep-ed/5e720008.1c69fb81.ac93b.3bb6SMTPIN_ADDED_MISSING%40gmr-mx.google.com.
RE: [gep-ed] just a thought
Thank you, Ron, for getting my thinking in gear this morning. I love the emerging ideas of bartering and a cooperative exchange of speakers. You could also put your budgets together and record a speaker who then is shared virtually.BUT, I wonder if you all might consider going beyond form and logistics, i.e. the HOW of teaching and speakers, to the WHAT? Somewhere I saw a note about prioritization, but that is just about weeding out and I doubt you all feel like you had tons of fluff in your classes to begin with.So, my thinking this morning went off into a whole new direction, taking off from the "not burden shifting but burden sharing" idea I emailed about earlier.I mean, for a group like this one assembled on this listservs, doesn't this crisis raise whole new (or new once again) questions such as:* how does a global crisis like this affect the conditions for (international) political and policy cooperation?* how does a pandemic positively and negatively change the conditions and outlook for environmental policy making and implementation?* what does precarity mean in global environmental politics?* what can we learn from this health-cum-economic crisis about the weak spots in our globalized systems?* how do we make the path to the SDGs more robust to disruption?Oh, I am sure you all could add fascinating other questions and all of a sudden the contents of your classes gains a whole new level of immediacy and relevance. Students will be way more engaged because everyone's brains are already in this crisis. And because none of us have the answer to this, you may use zoom classes and discussion fora and assignments as collective thinking and learning events than just trying to figure out "delivery mechanisms."Heck, universities could once again be places for true intellectualism and serve society well in this difficult time.Ok, enough from me in one day. But this was fun! I can imagine so many variants for any number of classes. The toilet paper case study will be an utterly real teaching device for oh so many things...SusiSent from tiny phone. Forgive typos Original message From: Ronald Mitchell Date: 3/17/20 11:31 PM (GMT-05:00) To: GEPED Subject: [gep-ed] just a thought One other thought on the whole online learning thing – Zoom or other apps for streaming lectures might be an excellent, low-carbon way to bring in guest speakers. We could each “trade” guest lectures on our well-known subjects (the lectures we can give in our sleep), reducing workload of developing lectures for us while giving our students better content. I am not offering to coordinate this – just a suggestion in case anyone thinks it’s a good idea. Ron Ronald Mitchell, Professor Department of Political Science and Program in Environmental Studies University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1284 rmitc...@uoregon.edu https://rmitchel.uoregon.edu/ IEA Database Director: https://iea.uoregon.edu/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gep-ed+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gep-ed/5e721272.1c69fb81.399de.0b91SMTPIN_ADDED_MISSING%40gmr-mx.google.com.
Re: [gep-ed] Readings/resources for finishing out this semester
Kate,How about a selection from All We Can Save? www.allwecansave.earthUplifting!SusiSent from tiny phone. Forgive typos Original message From: Dana R Fisher Date: 11/15/20 12:55 PM (GMT-05:00) To: Leah Stokes Cc: Kate O'NEILL , gep-ed@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [gep-ed] Readings/resources for finishing out this semester Going in a really different direction, here's a recent theoretical piece by Andrew Jorgenson and me that asks broad questions about risk, decision-making, and the Environment. Pdf is available here: https://www.asanet.org/ending-stalemate-toward-theory-anthro-shift I'm happy to join a class on the paper to discuss.Take care,DanaDana R. Fisher, UMDOn Sun, Nov 15, 2020, 12:43 PM Leah Stokes wrote:One option is you could assign something from our podcast, A Matter of Degrees. bit.ly/degreespod I know other faculty are using it in class. We did a nice forward looking episode on electrification and cleaning up the energy system by 2035 (episode 3). Leah On Sun, Nov 15, 2020, 9:40 AM Kate O'NEILL wrote:Dear all - this is a rougher semester than usual in terms of finishing a Global Environmental Politics course on a strong note. I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts on an article, chapter or other resource that might help round it out. I have a Biden and Climate/Paris piece and connecting COVID to climate disasters/colonialism article, but I’m looking for a “next ten years of global environmental politics” piece, and, more importantly, something contemporary that might engage their imaginations in terms of thinking into the future or more widely about the world (I know that’s vague but I want to shift them out of their immediate stressful present if just for a moment. Doesn't have to be rosy but something that isn’t doom and end of the world). As always, send suggestions to me and I’ll compile for the list!All best to you all,Kate***Kate O'NeillProfessorChair of the Society and Environment Division,Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management,University of California at berkeleykmone...@berkeley.edu@kmoneill2530WebsiteWASTE (Polity Press, 2019) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gep-ed+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gep-ed/596983B9-0F7C-4BC5-8461-25B6811FFF9A%40berkeley.edu. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gep-ed+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gep-ed/CAMZGX2e7LRTJwa7HTQXwAW6XM%2BHbeb993SMhYB58k87_QCzWVA%40mail.gmail.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gep-ed+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gep-ed/CAMXTsQ-ML%3DSaOKt3ToiUnshx5zmP1NmapVadk6nxnLkKiW7zNg%40mail.gmail.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gep-ed+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gep-ed/5fb16d86.1c69fb81.5915c.f1fbSMTPIN_ADDED_MISSING%40gmr-mx.google.com.
