ENST20901: Spring 2009 | Schedule, V. 1.4

This Schedule page provides a road map to the implementation of ENST20901, CRN 20217. This is the page you need to follow to keep abreast of our course. The schedule may change occasionally, so check back.

1. Orientation and the business of the course: roster, syllabus, schedule;
2. How to do well here: tips and traps. Q. and A.;
3. Film: Banking on Disaster and discussion.

Class activities:

1. End film and play Rainforest Game: please see Rainforest Scenarios to guide discussion.
2. We will review the readings, with emphasis on Brundtland, Bazan, and Montague.

Please read for class:

• Browse the Brundtland Report and sample its findings and logic. This is a seminal historical document.
• Read the important Overview, noting the way that sustainable development was framed and the language used to define sustainable development, quoted below. Read the Brundtland section on sustainable development carefully.
• See Professor Hayes's wiki on Brundtland
• Professor Wayne Hayes: The short wiki page on paradigms.
• Schroyer and Golodik, Preface: Why "World" Sustainability, pp. vii-ix;
• Schroyer, Introduction: The Inclusive Democracy Promise of the Earth Summit, pp. 3-5;
• Schroyer and Golodik: Schroyer, From Sustainable Development to Developing Sustainability, pp. 7-24;
• Montague: Sustainable Development in Six Parts, pp. 59-86
• Bazan: From Sustainability to Subsistence, pp. 311-324

Class activities

1. Professor Hayes will review Part I of Brown, defining the global crisis.
2. Professor Hayes will explain the debate on Limits to Growth
3. See The Story of Stuff.

Please read for class:

1. Lester Brown, Plan B 3.0, Preface and chapters 1 through 6, pages xi-xiv and 1-127;
2. Professor Hayes: notes supplementing Brown on Beyond the Oil Peak, Global Warming, Natural Systems Under Stress and on The Social Divide.

The graphic organizer is due on February 16 as an attachment to an email to enst209@gmail.com. The assignment will be explained in class and distributed by email attachment.

1. Professor Hayes will conclude his lecture on Brown and the global crisis;
2. See Professor Hayes's wiki page on Limits to Growth
3. Frontline documentary on energy and climate change: Heat
4. Review of Sachs, Fairness in a Fragile World: A Memo on Sustainability;
5. Organizational meeting for groups.

Please read carefully from Schroyer and Golodik the important article by Wolfgang Sachs, Fairness in a Fragile World: A Memo on Sustainability pp. 31-58. Also see the chart Professor Hayes prepared to de-code the article. Hint: Adjust the web page for each section of the chart.

Class activities:

1. Professor Hayes presentation: Framing the Disabling Analysis.
2. For group discussions: View and study the important case study close to home but of national importance: The Toxic Legacy web site by Jan Barry.
3. Hayes presentation: Economic Globalization.

Please read:

1. Schroyer and Golodik: Hayes, Economic Strategies for Sustainability, pp. 189-212
2. Schroyer and Golodik: Schroyer, Introduction: Exposing the Hidden Realities of Corporate Domination, pp. 89-98
3. Recommended but not required: Schroyer and Golodik: Engler, Oil Barrels and Gun Barrels: The Quest for the Control of Energy Resources, pp. 99-120
4. Recommended but not required: Schroyer and Golodik: Morehouse, Corporate Power, Popular Resistance, and Sustainable Development in an Imperial Age, pp. 121-132

Please also read:

1. Professor Michael Edelstein's lecture on the Disabling Anaysis. Please see his PowerPoint on disabling analysis from wiki page;
2. Michael Edelstein, Contaminated Communities, pp. 1-32.

The essay on Part I of the course is due on March 13 but may extend into spring break.

Class activities:

1. Hayes lecture on Strategic Sustainablity;
2. Transition from the disabling analysis to the enabling analysis;
3. Groups will prepare for the oral presentations that close the course.

1. Overview of Part II, Creating World Sustainability;
2. Groups will meet to advance preparation for final presentations;
3. Lecture by Professor Hayes framing the enabling analysis based in part on the readings below.

Please read these articles from Schroyer and Golodik, Creating a Sustainable World:

1. Schroyer: Sustainability as Regenerating Knowledge Systems, pp. 135-142
2. Siddhartha: Cultural Alternatives to Development in South India, pp. 175-188
3. Lewitt: Participatory Democracy and Porto Alegre, pp. 253-262
4. Schroyer: Sustainability as Capacity Building and Democratization of Wealth, pp. 215-222;

Class lecture and discussion, based on readings:

1. Professor Hayes lecture and discussion on ecological economics, which expands on Hayes, Economic Strategies for Sustainability, in Schroyer and Golodik, pp. 189-212
2. Review articles in Schroyer and Golodik by Montague and Sachs for ecological economic aspects.
3. McKibben, Deep Economy, Ch. 1 and 2, pp. 1-94

Please also read from Schroyer and Golodik:

1. Makofske: The 21st Century Transition to Sustainable Energy, pp. 279-292
2. Gussow: Creating Sustainable Agriculture and Relocalizing Food Systems, pp. 263-278
3. Schuman: Going Local: How Can We Create Viable Local Economies?, pp. 223-242

Class activities:

1. Presentation by Prof. Wayne Hayes: How Can We Transition to World Sustainability?
2. View a film that re-connects us to the rain forests that introdue the course: PBS Wide Angle: The Burning Season.
3. McKibben, Deep Economy, Ch. 3, 4, 5, and Afterword, pp. 95-232
4. Group meetings for preparation of presentations.

We will transition from the eco-economy to student presentations on April 27. Class on April 27 and May 4 will be devoted to the presentations.

The paper on the enabling analysis is due between May 4 and May 11, the assigned exam date for this course.

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