This Schedule page provides a road map to the implementation of
ENST20902 and ENST20903. This is the page you need to follow to keep abreast of
our course. The schedule may change occasionally, so check back.
January 21: Orientation and Business of the Course
- Orientation and the business of the course: roster,
syllabus, schedule;
- How to do well here: tips and traps. Q. and A.;
- Film: Banking on Disaster and discussion.
January 28: Introducing Sustainability
Class activities:
- End Banking on Disaster and discussion; form groups for
role-playing game based on film and Rainforest Scenarios
- Lecture: Professor Edelstein:
The
Evolution of the Concept of Sustainability and
Limits to
Growth. We will also review the readings on sustainability by
Brundtland, Schroyer, Bazan, and Montague.
Review these course materials:
- Professor Michael Edelstein: PowerPoint presentations on
limits
to growth and frames of sustainability.
- Professor Wayne Hayes: The short
wiki page on
paradigms.
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 This is a seminal historical document.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
- 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
February 4: Defining the Global Crisis
Class activities: Continue the lecture by Professor Edelstein:
The Evolution of the Concept of Sustainability
February 11: Defining the Global Crisis, Continued
Class activities:
- Professor Hayes will review the assignments on World
Sustainability in Schroyer and Golodik, originally scheduled for January
28;
- Professor Hayes will lecture on Brown and the global
crisis;
- Film: Al Gore: An
Inconvenient Truth;
Please read for class:
- Lester Brown, Plan B 3.0, Preface and chapters 1 through
6, pages xi-xiv and 1-127;
- Professor Hayes: notes supplementing Brown on
Beyond the Oil Peak,
Global Warming, Natural Systems Under Stress and on
The Social Divide.
- Michael Edelstein, Contaminated Communities, pp.
1-32.
February 18 - 25: Introducing the Disabling Analysis
The graphic organizer is due on February 18. The assignment will be
explained in class and distributed by email attachment.
Please read:
- Contaminated Communities, pp. 35-192.
- Please read article in Schroyer and Golodik by Wolfgang Sachs,
Fairness in a Fragile World: A Memo on Sustainability pp. 31-58. Read
this important article carefully and see the chart Professor Hayes prepared to de-code the
article. Hint: Adjust the web page for each section of the chart.
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.
March 4: Disabling Analysis: Economic Globalization
See The Story of Stuff.
Hayes presentation on Economic
Globalization.
Please read:
- Schroyer and Golodik: Hayes, Economic Strategies for
Sustainability, pp. 189-212
- Schroyer and Golodik: Schroyer, Introduction: Exposing the
Hidden Realities of Corporate Domination, pp. 89-98
- Recommended but not required: Schroyer and Golodik: Engler,
Oil Barrels and Gun Barrels: The Quest for the Control of Energy
Resources, pp. 99-120
- Recommended but not required: Schroyer and Golodik: Morehouse,
Corporate Power, Popular Resistance, and Sustainable Development in an
Imperial Age, pp. 121-132
March 11: Close Part I of World Sustainability
The
essay on Part
I of the course is due on March 13.
Class activities:
- Hayes lecture on Strategic
Sustainablity
- Groups will prepare for the oral presentations that close the
course.
This class closes Part I of ENST209. Note: March 18 is spring
break: no class.
Part II: Creating World Sustainability ^
March 25: Civil Society and World
Sustainability
- Lecture by Professor Edelstein: Enabling, Environmental
Justice and the Broader Actions of Civil Society Organizations
- Groups will meet to advance preparation for final
presentations.
Please read Edelstein, The Enabling response: Community
Development and Toxic Exposure and The Societal Meaning of Pollution, pp
193-203
Please also read these articles from Schroyer and Golodik,
Creating a Sustainable World:
- Schroyer: Sustainability as Regenerating Knowledge
Systems, pp. 135-142
- Siddhartha: Cultural Alternatives to Development in South
India, pp. 175-188
- Lewitt: Participatory Democracy and Porto Alegre, pp.
253-262
- Schroyer: Sustainability as Capacity Building and
Democratization of Wealth, pp. 215-222;
April 1: Civil Society and World Sustainability (Continued)
Edelstein lecture: The Alternative Energy Center: Retooling and
Creating Community
Please read from Schroyer and Golodik:
- Appfel-Margolin and Addelson: Situating Ourselves, pp.
155-174
- Makofske: The 21st Century Transition to Sustainable
Energy, pp. 279-292
- Gussow: Creating Sustainable Agriculture and Relocalizing
Food Systems, pp. 263-278
- Schuman: Going Local: How Can We Create Viable Local
Economies?, pp. 223-242
- McKibben, Deep Economy, Ch. 1 and 2, pp. 1-94
April 8:Public Policy, Eco-Economy, and World
Sustainability ^
- Brown: Chapters 7-13, pp. 131-288; see also Professor Hayes:
Lecture notes on Plan B
- McKibben, Deep Economy, Ch. 3, 4, 5, and Afterword, pp.
95-232
- Review in Schroyer and Golodik articles by Montague, Hayes, and
Sachs for public policy aspects.
April 15 - 29: Student Presentations | Final Paper Due
We will transition from the eco-economy to student presentations on
April 15. Class on April 22 and 29 will be devoted to the presentations.
The paper on the enabling analysis is due between April 29 and May
6, the assigned exam date for this class.