Week |
Day |
Time |
Lectures/activities |
Reading & Assignments |
| Class meetings will take place in classrooms listed on the Schedule, unless otherwise noted. |
(When we take breaks, times may shift a bit.) |
Finish the reading before class. Read especially carefully for seminar and when you have PIQs due. |
(Some of the readings referenced for lecture will be used for seminar in winter quarter, when we have time to dig into them more deeply.)
Assignments are due on the dates noted. |
1
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Monday Sept 28th |
1:00 –3:00 |
Intro: syllabus; Speth & Haas Ch I |
(The home page TEXT list notes which readings are required.) |
3:00 – 5:00 |
Seminar: Crichton, State of Fear |
Crichton: How ought we best evoke public response? Crichton notes |
Tuesday Sept 29th |
1:00 – 2:00
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Cheri: Speth & Haas Ch II & III
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Speth, James Gustave & Haas, Peter M, Global Environmental Governance |
| 2:00 – 3:45 |
Film “An Inconvenient Truth” |
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| 4:00-5:30 |
PLATO Panel: Chin Leo/Perkins |
PLATO Open Lecture Series, in Lecture Hall I (the big round building west of Red Square) |
Thursday Oct 1st |
1:00 – 3:00
Computer Center, Solarium Grotto |
Zita: Moodle Workshop, Learning Community, and your Visions of the Future |
Finkel, Don, Chapter on community writing from Teaching with your Mouth Shut
* choose your seminar groups
* sign-up for brief reports, essays, responses
* Orca fileshare ESCC0910 |
3:15 – 5:00 |
Seminar: finish Crichton, State of Fear (counterpoints) |
Crichton: Discuss the importance of being able to support your argument with good evidence. |
| Weekend: |
Teams post your seminar PIQs |
2 |
Monday Oct 5th |
1:00 – 2:30
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Policy: Speth & Haas Ch IV – VI
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| 2:30 – 3:00 |
1st Brief Reports by students |
(see SignupSheets on Moodle) 4 individuals: Post your news sources, links, and commentary before class, so we can show them onscreen in class. |
3:00 – 5:00 |
Seminar on Sagan and McKibben articles (to be made available on Moodle) |
Carl Sagan: The Fine Art of Baloney Detection and
Bill McKibben: The most important number on Earth |
Tuesday
Oct 6th |
1:00 – 3:30
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Zita: Wolfson Ch.1 + 2: A Changing Planet
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First short paper due on seminar readings (see details on Moodle)
Teams: Post PIQs on these Wolfson chapters the day before class |
| 4:00 – 5:30 |
PLATO: Dominique Bachelet |
In Lecture Hall I |
| Wednesday: |
Teams post your seminar PIQs and Wolfson PIQs
Individuals post your report on yesterday's Plato lecture |
Thursday
Oct 8th |
1:30 – 2:30
|
Wolfson Ch.2: High Energy Society
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| 2:30 – 3:00 |
2nd Brief Reportsby students |
Sign up for Research Projects on Moodle SignupSheets |
| 3:00 – 5:00 |
Seminar on Kolbert Field Notes |
Kolbert, Elizabeth Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change |
| Weekend: |
Teams post your seminar PIQs |
3 |
Monday Oct 12th |
1:00 – 2:45 |
Cheri on Policy: Apollo’s Fire Ch 1-2 |
Inslee, Jay and Hendricks, Bracken Apollo’s Fire: Igniting America’s Clean Energy Economy
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3:00 – 5:30 |
Seminar: Barnes Who Owns the Sky? |
first half of Barnes, Peter Who Owns the Sky? Our Common Assets and the Future of Capitalism |
Tuesday Oct 13th |
1:00 – 3:30
|
Cheri: Cap and Trade Workshops |
Apollo’s Fire Ch 3, Solar Dawn |
| 4:00 – 5:30 |
PLATO Jeremy Littel |
In Lecture Hall I |
| Wednesday: |
Teams post your seminar PIQs and Wolfson PIQs
Individuals post your report on yesterday's Plato lecture |
Thursday Oct 15th |
1:00 – 2:30
|
Zita: Wolfson Ch.3: Energy
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Teams: Post PIQs on this Wolfson chapter the day before class |
| 2:30 – 3:00 |
3rd Brief Reports by students |
4 individuals: Post your news sources, links, and commentary before class |
| 3:00-5:00 |
Seminar: finish Who Owns the Sky? |
4:30-5:00 research group discussions; program materials, pace, projects |
| Weekend: |
Teams post your seminar PIQs |
4 |
Monday Oct 19th |
1:00 – 2:30
|
Cheri on Policy: Apollo's Fire Ch 4-5, Green Bldg
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Inslee, Jay, Hendricks, Bracken, Apollo’s Fire: Igniting U.S. Clean Energy Economy |
| 2:30 – 3:00 |
4th Brief Reports by students |
4 individuals: Post your news sources, links, and commentary before class |
3:00 – 5:00 |
Seminar: IPCC and SciAm |
Executive Summary of 2007 IPCC Working Group I (Science), and Scientific American article summarizing IPCC report |
Tuesday Oct 20th |
1:00 – 3:30
|
Zita: Wolfson Ch.4: Energy & Heat (plus quick Library workshop)
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Teams: Post Wolfson PIQs yesterday
Second short seminar paper due today (see details on Moodle) |
| 4:00 – 5:30 |
PLATO Richard Gammon |
In Lecture Hall I |
| Wednesday: |
Teams post your seminar PIQs and Wolfson Ch.5 PIQs
Individuals post your report on yesterday's Plato lecture |
Thursday Oct 22nd |
2:30-3:00 |
5th Brief Reports by students
|
4 individuals: Post your news sources, links, and commentary before class |
| 1:00-2:30 |
Zita: Wolfson: Finish Ch.4, Start Ch.5: Fossil Energy |
HW on Ch.3 due - see details on Moodle |
| 3:00 – 5:00 |
Seminar: Hansen & NYT article |
Hansen's letters to Obama and NYT article on what happens to some waste scrubbed from coal plants - linked on Moodle |
| by Saturday |
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* peer evaluations due to faculty by email
* teams sign up for midterm conferences on Moodle SignupSheets
* onlinme Mid term exam on Moodle (due Sunday) |
5
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Monday Oct 26th |
all day |
Midterm conferences in seminar teams
(Read Apollo's Fire Ch.6-7; no lecture) |
With your seminar team, bring your individual portfolio-in-progress to Cheri's office or 3270 for Zita. See SignupSheets for your time. |
Tuesday Oct 27th |
12:00-1:00 |
Potluck down at the Farmhouse. Your presentations at Farmhouse afterwards. |
1:00 – 3:00
|
Status Reports DUE for Proposed Projects
|
Team assignment - present these concisely and clearly in class, and post online your presentation online. 5 minutes per team! What's your research question? What will each person do? |
| 3:15 – 3:45 |
6th Brief Reports by students |
4 individuals: Post your news sources, links, and commentary before class |
| 4:00 – 5:30 |
PLATO: Eli Levitt |
In Lecture Hall I |
Thursday Oct 29th |
all day |
Midterm conferences in research teams |
Research teams discuss proposals with faculty (times on SignupSheets) |
| Weekend: |
Teams post your seminar PIQs |
6
|
Monday Nov 2nd |
1:00 – 2:30
|
Inslee: Ch 8-9 |
Apollo's Fire, Nuclear & Coal
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| 2:30 – 3:00 |
7th Brief Reports by students |
4 individuals: Post your news sources, links, and commentary before class |
3:00 – 5:00 |
Seminar: McKibben 1st half |
McKibben, Bill, Deep Economy |
Tuesday Nov 3rd |
1:00 – 3:30
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Zita: Wolfson: finish Ch.5 & start Ch.6: Environmental Impacts of Fossil Fuels
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Third short seminar paper due
Teams: Post Wolfson Qs yesterday |
| 4:00 - 5:30 |
PLATO: Phil Duffy Lawrence Livermore |
In Lecture Hall I |
| Wednesday: |
Teams post your seminar PIQs & Wolfson Ch.7 Qs
Individuals post your report on yesterday's Plato lecture |
Thursday Nov 5th |
1:00 – 2:30
|
Zita: Wolfson Ch.7: Nukes
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| 2:30 – 3:00 |
8th Brief Reports by students |
4 individuals: Post your news sources, links, and commentary before class |
3:00 – 5:00 |
Seminar: McKibben 2nd half |
Deep Economy |
| Weekend: |
Teams post your seminar PIQs |
7 |
Monday
Nov 9th |
1:00 – 2:30
|
Lecture: Romm Ch 1-2: The Climate Beast |
Read Romm pp.110-176 , Hell and High Water, Global Warming – the Solution and the Politics – and What We Should Do |
| 2:30 – 3:00 |
9th Brief Reports by students |
4 individuals: Post your news sources, links, and commentary before class |
| 3:00 – 5:00 |
Seminar: Big Coal - first half |
Jeff Goodell, Big Coal: The Dirty Secret behind America's Energy Future |
Tuesday Nov 10th |
1:00 – 3:30
|
Workshops: Energy Economics
|
Read Romm Ch.3: Planetary Purgatory
We'll view 60 min video of TVA coal spill |
| 4:00 – 5:30 |
PLATO: Bruce A. Hungate |
In Lecture Hall I (Nitrogen and Climate Change) |
| Wednesday: |
Teams post your seminar PIQs
Individuals post your report on yesterday's Plato lecture |
Thursday
Nov 12th |
1:00 – 1:30 |
10th Brief Reports by students |
4 individuals: Post your news sources, links, and commentary before class |
| 1:45-5:00 |
Coal Plant Field Trip |
Finish Big Coal seminar in vans; Prepare polite but targeted Q for coal plant staff |
| Weekend: |
Teams post your seminar PIQs |
8 |
Monday Nov 16th |
1:00 – 2:30
|
Guest Speaker (Green Jobs) Barbara Hins-Turner
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Read Romm, Ch.4-6 (p.177-end) |
| 2:30 – 3:00 |
11th Brief Reports by students |
4 individuals: Post your news sources, links, and commentary before class |
3:00 – 5:00 |
Seminar: Science articles (see Moodle for details) and Obama's energy policy |
National Commission on Energy Policy, Ending the Energy Stalemate, A Bipartisan Strategy to Meet America’s Energy Challenges (Download http://www.energycommission.org/ |
Tuesday Nov 17th |
1:00 – 3:30
|
Zita: Overview of conventional energies
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Teams: post outstanding Wolfson Qs yesterday |
| 4:00 - 5:30 |
Plato: John Bolte |
LH I: Genetic Algorithms |
| Wednesday: |
Individuals post your report on yesterday's Plato lecture |
Thursday Nov 19th |
1:00 – 2:30 |
Workshop on Energy Wedges: Your team will create your own solution package and justify it. |
Princeton's Carbon Mitigation Initiative website
"Stabilization Wedges" article by S. Pacala and R. Socolow, 2004
"Solving the Climate Problem" article, by Socolow et al., 2004 |
| 2:30-3:00 |
12th Brief Reports by students |
4 individuals: Post your news sources, links, and commentary before class |
| 3:00-5:00 |
Meet teams in seminar rooms to plan your research report, draft PowerPoint presentation. Faculty available for consultation. |
BREAK |
Nov 23-27 |
No class |
THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY |
No assignments, but make sure your team is signed up to present next week (on Moodle SignupSheets) |
| Weekend |
Teams prepare to discuss Pacala & Socolow
If you like, email CONCISE candidate exam questions to your faculty (with answers, for extra credit) |
9
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Monday
|
1:00 – 5:00 |
Project Prospectus Presentations
|
Present your plans for Winter research, preferably using PowerPoint.
|
| Tue 12/1 |
1:00 – 3:45 |
Zita/Cheri: Alternative Tech |
"Stabilization Wedges" article by S. Pacala and R. Socolow, 2004
"Solving the Climate Problem" article, by Socolow et al., 2004 |
| 4:00-5:30 |
Plato in LH I |
Clean Energy Committee will describe how you may get a grant to support your research projects. |
| Thu 12/3 |
1:00 – 5:00 |
Project Prospectus Presentations |
Each team tell the class what you plan next quarter(ppt), and submit your written prospectus on Moodle (doc). |
| Weekend |
Final Survey
Peer evaluations due to faculty by email |
10 |
12/8-11 |
Per schedule on SignupSheets |
Final Evaluation Conferences |
Portfolios/Evaluations due at your conference:
* bring your self-eval and portfolio
* bring your faculty eval(s)
* see online guidelines and those at Acad. Advising |
