Re: [gep-ed] Compilation of enviro activism assignments

[Paul Wapner]

Hi Gepers,I also missed the initial call.  At the risk of self-promotion, one can find a host exercises in, Global Environmental Politics: From Person to Planet, a new reader edited by Simon Nicholson and me.  Each section ends with class exercises aimed at experiential learning.  Most exercises can be done in class (and in large as well as small courses).  The book is a kind of a 'greatest hits' within the general field of Global Environmental Politics.  I'm pasting the Table of Contents below but you can also check it out (and read much of the manuscript) here.TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction: Living in an Environmental Age
PART I: STATE OF THE PLANETSection 1: Species Unbound: Humanity’s Environmental Impact
Introduction1.   Enter the Anthropocene, Elizabeth Kolbert
2.   State of the Species, Charles C. Mann
3.   Humanity’s Potential, Alex SteffenSection 1 Exercise: “The Time Machine”Section 2: Four Planetary Challenges: Climate, Extinction, Water, and FoodIntroduction4.   Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math, Bill McKibben
5.   End of the Wild, Stephen M. Meyer
6.   Where Has All the Water Gone? Maude Barlow
7.   The Global Food Crisis, Lester BrownSection 2 Exercise: “Fries with That? Tracing Personal Consumption”Section 3: Causes of Environmental HarmIntroduction8.   Too Many Americans? Thomas Friedman
9.   A Finite Earth? Bill McKibben
10.  Consequences of Consumerism, Erik Assadourian
11.  Use Energy, Get Rich, and Save the Planet, John TierneySection 3 Exercise: “Where do Babies Come From? The Causes of Population Growth”
 PART II: STATES, MARKETS, AND SOCIETY: GEOPOLITICAL RESPONSES TO UNSUSTAINABILITY 
Section 4: International State System
Introduction
12.  Rio Declaration on Environment and Development
13.  Brief History of International Environmental Cooperation, Jennifer Clapp and Peter Dauvergne
14.  What’s Wrong with Climate Politics? Paul Harris
15.  State Sovereignty Endangers the Planet, Richard FalkSection 4 Exercise: “Talking with the United Nations”
Section 5: EconomyIntroduction16.  The Promise of Corporate Environmentalism, Peter Dauvergne and Jane Lister
17.  Environmental Economics 101: Overcoming Market Failures, Paul Krugman
18.  Capitalism vs. Climate, Naomi KleinSection 5 Exercise: “What’s for Dinner?”
 Section 6: Civil Society
Introduction
19.  The Power of Environmental Activism, Paul Hawken
20.  Forcing Cultural Change, Paul Wapner
21.  The Wrong Kind of Green, Johann HariSection 6 Exercise: “Unpacking the NGO World and Taking Action”
Section 7: Race, Class, and Geopolitical DifferenceIntroduction22.  The Delusion of Sustainable Growth, Herman E. Daly
23.  Who is an Economy For? Rethinking GDP, Jonathan Rowe
24.  One Atmosphere, Two Worlds, Peter Singer
25.  Environmental Colonialism: The Perverse Politics of Climate Change, Anil Agarwal and Sunita Narain
26.  Environmental Racism and the Environmental Justice Movement, Robert BullardSection 7 Exercise: “A Toxic Thank You”
 PART III: FROM PERSON TO PLANET: INTO A LIVABLE FUTURE
Section 8: Thinking StrategicallyIntroduction27.  Leverage Points Toward a Sustainable World, Donella H. Meadows
28.  Plant a Tree, Buy a Bike, Save the World? Michael F. Maniates
29.  The Poverty of Lifestyle Change, Paul Wapner and John Willoughby
30.  Why Bother? Michael PollanSection 8 Exercise: “Two Minutes to Sustainability: Moving Governments, the Economy, and Public”
 
Section 9: Political ImaginationIntroduction
31.  Island Civilization: 1,000 Years into the Future, Roderick Frazier Nash
32.  A is for Acid Rain, B is for Bee, Joanne Harris
33.  The Future is Local, Wendell Berry
34.  Technological Salvation, Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus
35.  Geoengineering: Reformatting the Planet for Climate Protection? Simon Nicholson
36.  Humility in a Climate Age, Paul Wapner
37.  How to be Hopeful, Barbara KingsolverSection 9 Exercise: “Calling All Earthlings: Self and Planetary Stewardship”Professor Paul WapnerGlobal Environmental Politics ProgramSchool of International ServiceAmerican University4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NWWashington DC 20016(202) 885-1647http://www.american.edu/sis/faculty/pwapner.cfm-howard.david.silver...@gmail.com wrote: -To: jg3...@nyu.eduFrom: Howard Silverman Sent by: howard.david.silver...@gmail.comDate: 08/10/2016 12:35PMCc: gep-ed@googlegroups.comSubject: Re: [gep-ed] Compilation of enviro activism assignmentsHi all,I missed Jessica’s original call. An exercise that i like (with “design thinking” students) is role-playing the evaluators, rather than the activists. Basically like this:— Ask the students, working in small groups, to scan a list of celebrated projects (such as the latest list of semifinalists from the Bucky Fuller 

Re: [gep-ed] Compilation of enviro activism assignments

[Howard Silverman]

Hi all,

I missed Jessica’s original call. An exercise that i like (with “design
thinking” students) is role-playing the evaluators, rather than the
activists.

Basically like this:
— Ask the students, working in small groups, to scan a list of celebrated
projects (such as the latest list of semifinalists from the Bucky Fuller
Institute
http://bfi.org/dymaxion-forum/2016/06/announcing-2016-fuller-challenge-semi-finalists)
and develop a set of rubrics for how they would evaluate the success of
these projects.
— Introduce the standard evaluation logic model, for example as in the
Kellogg Foundation 2004 Logic Model Development Guide (
https://www.wkkf.org/resource-directory/resource/2006/02/wk-kellogg-foundation-logic-model-development-guide
)
— Ask them to again work in groups to apply both the rubric and the logic
model to an evaluation of one chosen project, given the available online
information and specifying when needed information is not available.
— Discuss the project evaluations and compare the evaluation tools (rubrics
and logic model).

Cheers,
Howard Silverman
http://www.pnca.edu/faculty/meet/hsilverman

On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 6:31 AM, Jessica Green  wrote:

> Dear GEP-ed,
>
> Thanks so much for the excellent and creative suggestions for assignments
> for an environmental activism class.  I have attached a document with all
> of the suggestions and their provenance, so you can contact anyone with
> further questions.  A special thanks to Timmons Roberts and Dave Ciplet for
> sharing their extensive exercises, which look fantastic.  I have not
> included them in the attached doc, since Timmons already shared with the
> group.
>
> This is really a great group and a great resource.
>
> All best,
> Jessica
>
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