Date

Subjects

Work to Complete Before Class on this Date

Topics

Corp Cap Processes

Textbook
Reading**

Online Work***

Tu 23 Jan

Introduction:

• Course organization and procedures
• Course Goals

• Course Procedures

Th 25 Jan

• Terms & concepts

Recent History of American Environmentalism

• 1-35,
(35-43)

• Welcome
• Central terms & concepts
• Two types of enviro stress

Tu 30 Jan

Model of Enviro Stress: 

• Seven Potential Basic Causes

• Analyzing an Enviro Stress in Detail

A MODEL of environmental stress: tracing causes and effects
• Seven potential basic causes (except pages under Corporate capitalism, for later)
• Analyzing a stress in detail

Th 1 Feb

• Solid Waste: An Example of Stress

Consumerism
Racism

• 312-331

Solid Waste

Tu 6 Feb

Corporate Capitalism & Environ Stress

Toward Solutions

• About corporate capitalism
• Why corporations subvert nature
• How corporate capitalism destroys our environment
• Toward Solutions

Th 8 Feb

Environmental Issues:

• Petroleum Use

• 96-99; 121-126

Petroleum Use

Tu 13 Feb

• Car Culture
(Video: Taken for a Ride)

Monopoly
Ideology

• 90-92; 102-103

Car Culture

Tu 20 Feb

• Global Warming
(Video: Arctic Meltdown, Rising Seas)

• 244-258

Global Warming

Tu 27 Feb

• Big Dams
(Video: Large Dams, False Promises)

• 112; 287-288

Big Dams

Tu 6 Mar

• Coral Reef Destruction

• Shrimp Farming
(Video: Shrimp Fever)

• 53

• 206-207

Coral Reef Destruction

Shrimp Farming

Tu 3 Apr

• Plastics, Pesticides, & other POPs
(Video: part of Trade Secrets)

Deny damage
Export haz

• 227-232; 219-226; 328-329 (Dioxins)

Plastics, Pesticides, & other POPs

Tu 10 Apr

• Factory Farming of Livestock
(Video: Drumbeat for Mother Earth)

• 206-216

Factory Farming of Livestock

Tu 17 Apr

• Agricultural Bioengineering
(Video: Risky Business)

• 240

Agricultural Bioengineering

Tu 24 Apr

Media

• 232

Hormone Disruption

Endangered Species

Tu 8 May

Solutions & the Future

Notes on Solutions & the Future

Th 10 May

Summary Discussion