This semester will begin with your presentations to get us thinking about the Community of Northfield. Next, we will reflect on what we mean by civic engagement and the role of civic engagement in colleges and universities. Finally we will focus on a number of scientific or primary research papers on urban carbon storage or sequestration that should prepare you to be come an expert as you start the first of two group projects in the course. For this first project the class will create a snaphsot of Northfield’s existing “Natural Carbon Landscape” or carbon stocks (not sure about this language) and opportunities to increase the rate at which these areas sequester or store carbon. This first ACE project will be due before Spring Break.
Week of Feb 3rd
Friday-Course Intro +Open Discussion “Who are you?”
Week of Feb 10th
- Monday- (History of Area/People/Natural Landscapes)
- Wednesday-(Political Landscape/Economic Landscape/Local Non-Profit Scene)
- Friday-CentralityOfCivicEngagement2016
Week of Feb 17th
- Monday- Trad. v. Critical SL–Tania Mitchell
- Wednesday- Chapter 16-Carbon Cycle of Urban Ecosystems-see pg 316 2012_Book_CarbonSequestrationInUrbanEcos (Here are 2 videos to check out if you have not seen them already-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1SgmFa0r04 and https://www.climatecentral.org/news/the-meteoric-rise-of-co2-in-1-video-17398
- Friday- Urban Trees/Carbon Sequestration Nowak et al (2013) Tree Carbon Sequestration Urban and check out these two links…http://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2012/09/25/161753383/trees-come-from-out-of-the-air-says-nobel-laureate-richard-feynman-really and http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/12/16/371210831/when-you-burn-off-that-fat-where-does-it-go
Week of Feb 24th
- Monday- Urban Trees/Carbon Sequestration Smith et al (2019) Live fast Die Young Urban Trees (First essay due a week from Friday-see instructions below.)
- Wednesday- Urban Trees/Carbon Sequestration and check this out http://www.treebenefits.com/calculator/index.cfm Here is handout Class Feb 26
- Friday- Stormwater Retention Ponds/Carbon Sequestration Pincetl2013UrbanTreePlantingEx.LosAngeles First ACE Journal entry due! – Instructions are here Individual ACE Journal Handout
Week of March 2nd
- Monday-Urban Soils/Carbon Sequestration StormWaterRetentionPondsCarbonSeq
- Wednesday-Grasslands/Carbon Sequestration LDD_2018_Vasenev_Carbon-Urban-Soils_Review
- Friday- SoilCarbonPrairieRestorationTilman2019 First essay due! – Instructions are here…Course Reflections and Connections EssaysHandout2020