Developing Carbon Landscape Interventions and More…

This section of the course starts with and will focus on your second set of ACE projects. These projects will focus broadly on Northfield’s Climate Action Plan and efforts that might increase the carbon storage ability of Northfield’s natural landscapes. While our first projects were relatively structured and I assigned groups based on your area of emphasis and your year, these groups will be based on your interest and these projects are meant to be more open ended and hopefully leave more space for creativity, independence and interaction (online) with people from the community.

Readings for the last part of this course are diverse! They include readings that focus on the inclusivity (or lack of inclusivity) in the environmental field, readings that are used each semester in this course (Green Man), and a New York Times article on the history of the politics of climate change.

Week of April 6th

  • Monday- Please use this day to FINALIZE your ppt slides from before our break. I am in the process of inserting comments onto the slide after your slide with suggestions of things that need fixing! Plan to meet online with your group to finalize stuff-let me know if you do not hear from one of your group members.
  • Wednesday- Work on NEW Projects with your new group. Look out for an email with info on what group you are in (did you get it?). WITH YOUR GROUP before Thur at noon please create a ppt that will serve as your Project Log. I have created a file called Second Set of ACE Projects in our ES 237 Projects file that is shared on Google. When you meet with your group (Google Meet/Zoom) please see my instructions in my ppt that is also in that folder.
  • Friday- Complete a short assignment (write a paragraph) on Climate Change and Coronavirus (more details to come)

Week of April 13th

Plans for this week:

First you will notice a number of readings distributed across the week below. Please read each one sometime this week and then IN YOUR CURRENT PROJECT GROUP you will complete some questions to send back to me by the end of the day on Friday. Please look in your email for those questions and respond with your whole group as you meet on Google Hangouts or Zoom. That email also has you responding to one of those questions in a linked Google slide show in our shared “ES 237 Projects and more” that is linked below.

Second you will need to read through other student’s positions on the relationship between the pandemic and climate change. I have shared your paragraphs in a google doc in our shared folder that is not entitled “ES 237 Projects and More” (see link below)

Find two positions  you would like to connect to and write in your responses onto the same slide as the (or if you need to add another do that as well). Write your name at the end of your response so I know who has added what. I expect your responses to be thoughtful, carefully written, respectful but also substantive. Please be sure at least one of your responses focuses on a paragraph that does not have any response yet. Any questions??

Third, find a time to get together with your project group to talk about your project (at the same or a different time as you talk about the readings for the week). At this point, copy the slides you added to the shared Google Slide show “Instructions for your Project Logs” and make a new Google Slide show that stays in that shared folder but has your group’s name on it. All future meeting notes will go in your own slide show from now on. When you meet this week, please record your progress on several slides. What progress have you made? Who has done what? What are the plans for the next week?

Week of April 20th –Do you have a copy of The Green Man to start reading for next week!!

Search out my email with link to make an appointment with me at a time this week when all your group members can make it. Be prepared to fill out a short questionnaire I will prepare so I can check in on what you have done so far and your specific plans for the coming weeks. I will also be looking at your project logs over the weekend (April 18th and 19th) and will let you know if I have significant questions ahead of our meeting. Think about what your “product” will be!

 

Week of April 27th

Week of May 4th

Before late in the day on Wed get together with your assignment group (see my email). Find the shared google slide show  in our shared folder for class (“ES 237 Projects and More”). Instructions are in that slide show! (This assignment will wrap up the NYTimes article you read last week.)

  • Monday- Green Man Be prepared to discuss through end of Chapter 6
  • Wednesday- Green Man Be prepared to discuss Chapter 7 to end.
  • Friday-  Complete an Assignment for The Green Man. (Not sure what this will be but do finish reading it!) Wow spaced that assignment! Sorry!

Week of May 11th

  • Monday- Pre-Final Draft of your Project Deliverables Due today! (place in your group’s folder and label clearly) Expect to get comments back that suggest additions or modifications to work on before your final draft which will be due NEXT Tuesday.
  • Wednesday-WE will do something with the Green Man today! (since I spaced it for last Friday). If you have not read it simply try to read it over the summer when you have more time.
    • This is a Kind of fun Semester Wrap up reading (NOT REQUIRED), a snapshot of life in Northfield in the late 1800s  ….Charles H TaylorRecollections (Focus on parts where it talks about what Northfield was like-not so much the parts about all the people!)

I will be getting back to groups this week regarding adjustments/suggestions to your project materials!

Please be sure to send a link of your final materials to your “community partner” (if you have one) for a final read through (see my instructions in my email of May 17th).

Tuesday, May 19, 2:00-4:00 p.m.

  • FINAL Project Materials Due (Each group’s materials might be slightly different.)
  • FINAL Writing Assignments Due Specific instructions are here- FINALEXAM2020