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2010 Global Sustainability Summer School-Blog

2010-07-19T02:28:01Z

Anitac: /* Monday July 12 */

{{GSSS 2010}}

Please feel free to use this page to share thoughts about lectures and activities, and share relevant links with the group.

==Monday July 12==
Carolina De la Rosa Tincopa 
Shirley Papuga 
Anita Carrasco 
Wow, I am so absent minded. I just realized that I had to blog on the first day of the summer school! Since I did not,and I have already spent a week here I will share some of my impressions of this first week: It has been a pleasure to meet people from different countries and different disciplines. I feel it is one of the few opportunities we have in life to have close conversations with other disciplines and see how they view issues of sustainability.
What has left me a bit disturbed though is the idea that has been put forward by some of the presenters which is: qualitative research = especulation. Put another way, we need more quantitative/predictive research = science (not especulation). I feel this is a very serious statement and when people make these claims, I wonder if they have studied epistemology or history of science. Remember that it was not long ago, when humanity used to believe that the earth was flat.
This idea of natural resource services or whatever it is called is also very disturbing. It implies that people care about resources only when they are assigned a monetary price. So, for example, if we put a price on water, people somehow are going to do something to protect it. I work with indigenous communities in northern Chile and they care about water to the point they consider it sacred. This caring for water has nothing to do with the fact that the Chilean state privatized water through the 1980 Water Code. Now that there is a water market, although indigenous communities care very much about water, they can not do anything to protect it from the mining companies that have the money to buy all the water use right titles. Thus, I completely disagree with the idea that markets for natural resources will conduce to sustainability because people will 'care more'.
Another idea that I found shocking was a comment in one of the lectures that suggested that 'the rich care less about money than the poor because they have a lot of money'. If this were the case, distribution of income in the world would not be so pitiful, rich people would pay higher salaries, they would extract resources from the environment only to the point of not jeopardizing nature and so forth.
There are many systems in the world that can be beautifully predicted with mathematical models. But, I just do not buy that human behavior is one such system. There are too many underlying human assumptions behind those models (i.e. people will always be selfish when it comes to public goods, etc). I would be happy to hear any counter argument from those of you who do not agree with the above statements. Debate is what we are here for right? Last, but not least, I might just be an anthropologist, but I do not speculate just because I work with meanings and not so much with measures.

==Tuesday July 13==
Deva Seetharam 
Joseph Burger 
Caleb Gallemore 

Thinking about Doyne's question regarding whether the earth is our garden or a wilderness seems to me to raise questions about the role of anthropocentric thinking in thinking about sustainability. I remember that someone floated the question of whether or not we can think of sustainability without humans. Both these questions, I think, highlight a difficult intellectual challenge we face in thinking about sustainability. On the one hand, we are - usually explicitly - involved in a normative exercise. When we talk about sustainability, we at the very least imply a vague notion of a state or set of states worthy of being sustained. In almost all cases (except perhaps for some forms of deep ecology), one property of these states is the continued existence of at least some humans at some tolerable - or, preferably, enjoyable - standard of living. The interesting problem we face is this: in order to keep humans around, we are for the most part agreed that leverage must be brought to bear on the economic and social systems we have created, as well as the environmental damages we have already perpetrated. This means we must think of humans as somehow free to choose and change, even if only within limited boundaries and only some of the time. Humans, in other words, are our leverage point onto the world whose fate concerns us. At the same time, we have to think of the ways in which humans are embedded within that world and subject to pressures from social structures and natural feedbacks of our collective making. It seems to me that several of the debate questions actually center around this question of social possibility - we simply do not know what we ourselves may or may not be capable of changing about our actions and the systems that produce and sustain us.

If the world is our garden, then this seems to suggest that we are relatively autonomous from it and that we can meaningfully look on it and make choices about what its properties should be. But it may in fact be that the world is a wilderness, despite that humans have touched it everywhere, such that some geographers have started calling our age the "anthropocene." Usually we think of the wilderness as something that is untouched or pristine or unaffected by "civilization," however defined. This way of thinking, actually, is closely aligned with the conception of the garden. Again it is a view of a world untouched by humans to which humans somehow enter from the outside, a view common in much of the social sciences even at present. Of course, we know that this is not the case. Humans grow from the inside of the wilderness, just like weeds or badgers or elephants. Like all species, our advent in the wilderness has come to change it - in our case in more substantial ways than most - but we remain firmly a part of the wilderness.

All this may seem a little ambling. What I mean to say is this: we are a part of wilderness, and thinking of the social as somehow a strictly different beast can be deceiving. It can give us a sense that we have too much choice and too much power. On the other hand it can give us a sense that wilderness has too little of these things. We continue to discover both positive and negative feedbacks to our actions in the world at large, and we continue to find that the world is more dynamic and flexible than we imagined. Thinking of the interplay between our social structures, our choices, and the responses of the rest of the wilderness requires that we relax habits of thought in which we place ourselves as something acting on nature from the outside, which, in practice, most sustainability work already does. The trick is to get the social sciences to do it, as well.

==Wednesday July 14==
David Bryngelsson 
Veronika Huber 

The day started out with an instructive and helpful session with Ann Kinzig. Besides making me realize that I have found a satisfying definition of sustainability for myself yet, the discussions during her lecture left me with a few insights that I kept pondering about.

One strong point Ann made was that “information is power”. She argued that an important part of making sustainability a more meaningful concept is to develop the right measurement indices. There are many caveats to respect when trying to come up with quantitative indices. Certainly, there are limits to assigning monetary values. (How much is the spectacular sunset worth that made the mountains behind Santa Fe gloom in all shades of red and yellow tonight). At the same time, as Ann pointed out, many important decisions are taken by explicitly or implicitly assigning values. Our world works based on all sorts of incomplete and insufficient indices. Achieving sustainability (and I am sticking for now with my gut feeling of what that means) would require much more than ‘just’ implementing new indices that reflect changes in natural and social capital overlooked so far. Yet, I would argue it is a necessary condition.

Whenever you open up a newspaper, whenever you watch the news, you read and hear about “growth”. Our societies are addicted to economic growth. We cheer when the prospects of growth look great; we fall into depression when the growth forecasts are reduced by a few decimal points. GDP is – I would say – the most powerful index that has ever been developed. Replacing it or at least complementing it with a more inclusive measure of wealth could have a great influence on how we steer our planet into the future.

A second much more technical comment I would like to make concerns the lifetime of CO2 in the atmosphere. We were discussing today with some people whether its atmospheric lifetime was really thousands of years – as Dennis mentioned at some point. Here is a link to a recent paper by David Archer that is extremely helpful in this regard: http://geosci.uchicago.edu/~archer/reprints/archer.2009.ann_rev_tail.pdf.

Gina La Cerva 

==Thursday July 15==
Deborah Strumsky 
Therese Hertel 

Today we changed our lecture-location for the first time. We had all day at the Santa Fe Institute. to be continued :)

Joe Cresko 

==Friday July 16==
Janeane Harwell 
Mary Turnipseed 

==Saturday July 17==
 
[[Eli Lazarus]]: It's Saturday night at St. John's, and late; outside my room facing the Upper Dorms quad, a Breadloaf Writing Workshop party is bumping and raucous. Our GSSS10 crew is just back from an epic day on the road between Santa Fe and Taos -- I'm compelled to hold what pops and flashes of the last 12 hours I can before I sack out. The Taos itinerary was eclectic and spirited -- a guided tour of [http://earthship.com/ Earthships Biotecture], a vertiginous view into the Rio Grande Gorge, and, courtesy of Doyne Farmer, a brief stop at "the best [http://www.michaelskitchen.com/index.php doughnut shop] in northern New Mexico." But for me, in the company of my summer-school research group, the drive itself brought a lovely and unexpected catalysis, a subtle condensing of something inspired and formative.

(And that's atop a week of the most intellectual discussion, concentration, and provocation I've ever experienced.)

Northbound, about 30 minutes outside of Santa Fe, we cracked into a few big-picture ideas, periodically interrupting each other to point beyond the highway -- talus slopes, tourist-ballasted river rafts, mesa walls of dipping strata, pine-thick mountain flanks unraveling into valley chaparral. (All of it fodder for thinking about complex, dynamic relationships between landscapes and land-use transitions.) Southbound, we took the high road from Taos and this time shimmed our stories between exclamations about bison, dust devils, pickup-truck dogs, cloud breaks, and the rain-blued mountains to the west. By the time Highway 84 widened into the Santa Fe fringe, excitement about our coming collaboration was palpable. We'd already seen our metaphor from the ridge -- all the distance we'll soon be traveling, the verdant expanse of possibilities there to explore. 

==Sunday July 18==

==Monday July 19==
Hitesh Soneji 
Dana Coelho 
Hongtao Yi 

==Tuesday July 20==
Lawrence Lin 
Erasmus Owusu 
Amanda James 

==Wednesday July 21==
John Robert Baker 
Michael Dorsey 
Christian Casillas 

==Thursday July 22==
Cecilia Roa-Garcia 
Stephen Posner 
John Paul Gonzales 

==Friday July 23==

2010 Global Sustainability Summer School-Blog

2010-07-19T02:27:29Z

Anitac: /* Monday July 12 */

{{GSSS 2010}}

Please feel free to use this page to share thoughts about lectures and activities, and share relevant links with the group.

==Monday July 12==
Carolina De la Rosa Tincopa 
Shirley Papuga 
Anita Carrasco 
Wow, I am so absent minded. I just realized that I had to blog on the first day of the summer school! Since I did not,and I have already spent a week here I will share some of my impressions of this first week: It has been a pleasure to meet people from different countries and different disciplines. I feel it is one of the few opportunities we have in life to have close conversations with other disciplines and see how they view issues of sustainability.
What has left me a bit disturbed though is the idea that has been put forward by some of the presenters which is: qualitative research = especulation. Put another way, we need more quantitative/predictive research = science (not especulation). I feel this is a very serious statement and when people make these claims, I wonder if they have studied epistemology or history of science. Remember that it was not long ago, when humanity used to believe that the earth was flat.
This idea of natural resource services or whatever it is called is also very disturbing. It implies that people care about resources only when they are assigned a monetary price. So, for example, if we put a price on water, people somehow are going to do something to protect it. I work with indigenous communities in northern Chile and they care about water to the point they consider it sacred. This caring for water has nothing to do with the fact that the Chilean state privatized water through the 1980 Water Code. Now that there is a water market, although indigenous communities care very much about water, they can not do anything to protect it from the mining companies that have the money to buy all the water use right titles. Thus, I completely disagree with the idea that markets for natural resources will conduce to sustainability because people will 'care more'.
Another idea that I found shocking was a comment in one of the lectures that suggested that 'the rich care less about money than the poor because they have a lot of money'. If this were the case, distribution of income in the world would not be so pitiful, rich people would pay higher salaries, they would extract resources from the environment only to the point of not jeopardizing nature and so forth.
There are many systems in the world that can be beautifully predicted with mathematical models. But, I just do not buy that human behavior is one such system. There are too many underlying human assumptions behind those models (i.e. people will always be selfish when it comes to public goods, etc). I would be happy to hear any counter argument from those of you who do not agree with the above statements. Debate is what we are here for right? Anita. Last, but not least, I might just be an anthropologist, but I do not speculate just because I work with meanings and not so much with measures.

==Tuesday July 13==
Deva Seetharam 
Joseph Burger 
Caleb Gallemore 

Thinking about Doyne's question regarding whether the earth is our garden or a wilderness seems to me to raise questions about the role of anthropocentric thinking in thinking about sustainability. I remember that someone floated the question of whether or not we can think of sustainability without humans. Both these questions, I think, highlight a difficult intellectual challenge we face in thinking about sustainability. On the one hand, we are - usually explicitly - involved in a normative exercise. When we talk about sustainability, we at the very least imply a vague notion of a state or set of states worthy of being sustained. In almost all cases (except perhaps for some forms of deep ecology), one property of these states is the continued existence of at least some humans at some tolerable - or, preferably, enjoyable - standard of living. The interesting problem we face is this: in order to keep humans around, we are for the most part agreed that leverage must be brought to bear on the economic and social systems we have created, as well as the environmental damages we have already perpetrated. This means we must think of humans as somehow free to choose and change, even if only within limited boundaries and only some of the time. Humans, in other words, are our leverage point onto the world whose fate concerns us. At the same time, we have to think of the ways in which humans are embedded within that world and subject to pressures from social structures and natural feedbacks of our collective making. It seems to me that several of the debate questions actually center around this question of social possibility - we simply do not know what we ourselves may or may not be capable of changing about our actions and the systems that produce and sustain us.

If the world is our garden, then this seems to suggest that we are relatively autonomous from it and that we can meaningfully look on it and make choices about what its properties should be. But it may in fact be that the world is a wilderness, despite that humans have touched it everywhere, such that some geographers have started calling our age the "anthropocene." Usually we think of the wilderness as something that is untouched or pristine or unaffected by "civilization," however defined. This way of thinking, actually, is closely aligned with the conception of the garden. Again it is a view of a world untouched by humans to which humans somehow enter from the outside, a view common in much of the social sciences even at present. Of course, we know that this is not the case. Humans grow from the inside of the wilderness, just like weeds or badgers or elephants. Like all species, our advent in the wilderness has come to change it - in our case in more substantial ways than most - but we remain firmly a part of the wilderness.

All this may seem a little ambling. What I mean to say is this: we are a part of wilderness, and thinking of the social as somehow a strictly different beast can be deceiving. It can give us a sense that we have too much choice and too much power. On the other hand it can give us a sense that wilderness has too little of these things. We continue to discover both positive and negative feedbacks to our actions in the world at large, and we continue to find that the world is more dynamic and flexible than we imagined. Thinking of the interplay between our social structures, our choices, and the responses of the rest of the wilderness requires that we relax habits of thought in which we place ourselves as something acting on nature from the outside, which, in practice, most sustainability work already does. The trick is to get the social sciences to do it, as well.

==Wednesday July 14==
David Bryngelsson 
Veronika Huber 

The day started out with an instructive and helpful session with Ann Kinzig. Besides making me realize that I have found a satisfying definition of sustainability for myself yet, the discussions during her lecture left me with a few insights that I kept pondering about.

One strong point Ann made was that “information is power”. She argued that an important part of making sustainability a more meaningful concept is to develop the right measurement indices. There are many caveats to respect when trying to come up with quantitative indices. Certainly, there are limits to assigning monetary values. (How much is the spectacular sunset worth that made the mountains behind Santa Fe gloom in all shades of red and yellow tonight). At the same time, as Ann pointed out, many important decisions are taken by explicitly or implicitly assigning values. Our world works based on all sorts of incomplete and insufficient indices. Achieving sustainability (and I am sticking for now with my gut feeling of what that means) would require much more than ‘just’ implementing new indices that reflect changes in natural and social capital overlooked so far. Yet, I would argue it is a necessary condition.

Whenever you open up a newspaper, whenever you watch the news, you read and hear about “growth”. Our societies are addicted to economic growth. We cheer when the prospects of growth look great; we fall into depression when the growth forecasts are reduced by a few decimal points. GDP is – I would say – the most powerful index that has ever been developed. Replacing it or at least complementing it with a more inclusive measure of wealth could have a great influence on how we steer our planet into the future.

A second much more technical comment I would like to make concerns the lifetime of CO2 in the atmosphere. We were discussing today with some people whether its atmospheric lifetime was really thousands of years – as Dennis mentioned at some point. Here is a link to a recent paper by David Archer that is extremely helpful in this regard: http://geosci.uchicago.edu/~archer/reprints/archer.2009.ann_rev_tail.pdf.

Gina La Cerva 

==Thursday July 15==
Deborah Strumsky 
Therese Hertel 

Today we changed our lecture-location for the first time. We had all day at the Santa Fe Institute. to be continued :)

Joe Cresko 

==Friday July 16==
Janeane Harwell 
Mary Turnipseed 

==Saturday July 17==
 
[[Eli Lazarus]]: It's Saturday night at St. John's, and late; outside my room facing the Upper Dorms quad, a Breadloaf Writing Workshop party is bumping and raucous. Our GSSS10 crew is just back from an epic day on the road between Santa Fe and Taos -- I'm compelled to hold what pops and flashes of the last 12 hours I can before I sack out. The Taos itinerary was eclectic and spirited -- a guided tour of [http://earthship.com/ Earthships Biotecture], a vertiginous view into the Rio Grande Gorge, and, courtesy of Doyne Farmer, a brief stop at "the best [http://www.michaelskitchen.com/index.php doughnut shop] in northern New Mexico." But for me, in the company of my summer-school research group, the drive itself brought a lovely and unexpected catalysis, a subtle condensing of something inspired and formative.

(And that's atop a week of the most intellectual discussion, concentration, and provocation I've ever experienced.)

Northbound, about 30 minutes outside of Santa Fe, we cracked into a few big-picture ideas, periodically interrupting each other to point beyond the highway -- talus slopes, tourist-ballasted river rafts, mesa walls of dipping strata, pine-thick mountain flanks unraveling into valley chaparral. (All of it fodder for thinking about complex, dynamic relationships between landscapes and land-use transitions.) Southbound, we took the high road from Taos and this time shimmed our stories between exclamations about bison, dust devils, pickup-truck dogs, cloud breaks, and the rain-blued mountains to the west. By the time Highway 84 widened into the Santa Fe fringe, excitement about our coming collaboration was palpable. We'd already seen our metaphor from the ridge -- all the distance we'll soon be traveling, the verdant expanse of possibilities there to explore. 

==Sunday July 18==

==Monday July 19==
Hitesh Soneji 
Dana Coelho 
Hongtao Yi 

==Tuesday July 20==
Lawrence Lin 
Erasmus Owusu 
Amanda James 

==Wednesday July 21==
John Robert Baker 
Michael Dorsey 
Christian Casillas 

==Thursday July 22==
Cecilia Roa-Garcia 
Stephen Posner 
John Paul Gonzales 

==Friday July 23==

2010 Global Sustainability Summer School-After Hours

2010-07-15T11:56:47Z

Anitac: /* Bandelier Field Trip */

{{GSSS 2010}}

==Taos Field Trip==
We've arranged a tour of an [http://earthship.com/ Earthship] in Taos on Saturday.

Please sign up here if you are interested in going.

1.Shirley 
2.Anita 
3.Tess 
4.Amanda 
5.Veronika 
6.Mary 
7.Dana 
8.Hitesh 
9.John 
10.Lawrence 
11.Steve 
12. David 
13. Caleb 
14.Dana Jackman 
15.Tao 
16.Eli 
17. Cecilia 
18. Deva 
19.Joe Cresko 
20.Yao 
21. 
22. 
23. 
24. 
25. 
26. 
27. 
28. 
29. 
30. 

==Synergia Ranch==
[http://www.synergiaranch.com/ Synergia Ranch] has invited us to dinner and a tour of their operations on Thursday the 15th (after the Biosphere Colloquium). Please sign up here so that we have an idea of who's going.

John Paul's Camry (4 seats) 
1.JP 
2.Hitesh 
3.Stevie P. 
4.Robbie 

Doynemobile (2 seats) 
1.Doyne Farmer 
2.M. K. Dorsey

Dana's Car (4 seats) 
1.Dana C. 
2.Janeane 
3.Joe Cresko 
4.Tess 

George Johnson 
1. Yao 
2. Dana Jackman 
3 Shirley Papuga 
4. Cecilia Roa-Garcia 
5. Veronika

Debbie's Car 
1.David B 
2.Gabe C. 
3.Caleb G. 

Jim Crutchfield 
1.Jim Crutchfield 
2.Lawrence 
3.Eli Lazarus 
4.Deva 

Gina LaCerva 
1. Maria Dillard 
2. Carolina 
3. Anita 
4. Christian 

Donatella's Car 
1.Tao 
2.Amanda 
3.Mary T. 

Donatella's Second 
1.John B. 
2. 

Unassigned:

==Soylent Green Showing!==

Doyne Farmer would like to have a showing of Soylent Green at his house. Please sign up here and JP will forward you more info. Depending on how many we have sign up, we'll assess transportation options.

John Paul's Car (4 seats) 
1.John Paul 
2.Mary Turnipseed 
3.Anita 
4. 

Debbie's Car (4 seats) 
1.Debbie 
2. 
3. 
4. 

1.[[John Paul]] 
2.[[Yao Yin]] 
3.[[Caleb Gallemore]] 
4.[[Hitesh Soneji]] 
5.[[Mary Turnipseed]] 
6.[[Eli Lazarus]] 
7.[[Veronika Huber]] 
8. Tess 
9.
10. [[Dana Coelho]] 
11. Joe Cresko 
12. Gabe Chan 
13. Lawrence Lin 
14. Shirley Papuga 
15. [[Hongtao Yi]] 
16. M.K. Dorsey 
17. Cecilia Roa-Garcia 
18. Amanda James 
19. [[David Bryngelsson]] 

==Bandelier Field Trip==

Would anybody be interested in taking a field trip to [http://www.nps.gov/band/index.htm Bandelier National Monument] for a hike? I'd like to go on Sunday July 18. We'll leave from St. John's at about 11:00 and hike for a few hours, then possibly take a trip up to the [http://www.vallescaldera.gov Valles Caldera] and Jemez Springs.

Please sign up if you're interested.

Sign Up
1.John Paul 
2.Yao 
3.Caleb Gallemore 
4.Gabe Chan 
5.[[Hitesh Soneji]] 
6.Lisa Curran 
7.[[Dana Coelho]] - I would love a ride but can also drive if the need arises! 
8. Joe Cresko 
9. Lawrence Lin 
10. Amanda James 
11. Hongtao Yi 
12. Tess 
14. [[Michael Dorsey]] 
15. Cecilia Roa-Garcia 
16. Deva 
17. Anita 

==Ghost Ranch Field Trip==
Is anyone interested in a trip to Abiquiu to [http://www.ghostranch.org/ Ghost Ranch] for a hike?
You can study system collapse, there are carnivorous dinosaur fossils.
Please sign up here if you are interested in going, and if people want to go we will schedule everyone agrees on.

== Farmers Markets ==

The [http://www.santafefarmersmarket.com/ Santa Fe Farmers' Market] is Open Every Tuesday and Saturday in the Santa Fe Railyard! 7am-Noon. The Market is also open Thursday nights from 3-7 pm.

== Open Hours Gym ==

SAC Hours from May 31 – August 14 are:

Monday 6a-7p
Tuesday 6a-8p
Wednesday 6a-8p
Thursday 6a-7p
Friday 6a-7p
Saturday 10a-5p
Sunday CLOSED

There will be open volleyball on Mondays, 4:30-6:30p and open basketball on Thursdays from 4:30-6:30p.

2010 Global Sustainability Summer School-After Hours

2010-07-15T11:54:28Z

Anitac: /* Soylent Green Showing! */

{{GSSS 2010}}

==Taos Field Trip==
We've arranged a tour of an [http://earthship.com/ Earthship] in Taos on Saturday.

Please sign up here if you are interested in going.

1.Shirley 
2.Anita 
3.Tess 
4.Amanda 
5.Veronika 
6.Mary 
7.Dana 
8.Hitesh 
9.John 
10.Lawrence 
11.Steve 
12. David 
13. Caleb 
14.Dana Jackman 
15.Tao 
16.Eli 
17. Cecilia 
18. Deva 
19.Joe Cresko 
20.Yao 
21. 
22. 
23. 
24. 
25. 
26. 
27. 
28. 
29. 
30. 

==Synergia Ranch==
[http://www.synergiaranch.com/ Synergia Ranch] has invited us to dinner and a tour of their operations on Thursday the 15th (after the Biosphere Colloquium). Please sign up here so that we have an idea of who's going.

John Paul's Camry (4 seats) 
1.JP 
2.Hitesh 
3.Stevie P. 
4.Robbie 

Doynemobile (2 seats) 
1.Doyne Farmer 
2.M. K. Dorsey

Dana's Car (4 seats) 
1.Dana C. 
2.Janeane 
3.Joe Cresko 
4.Tess 

George Johnson 
1. Yao 
2. Dana Jackman 
3 Shirley Papuga 
4. Cecilia Roa-Garcia 
5. Veronika

Debbie's Car 
1.David B 
2.Gabe C. 
3.Caleb G. 

Jim Crutchfield 
1.Jim Crutchfield 
2.Lawrence 
3.Eli Lazarus 
4.Deva 

Gina LaCerva 
1. Maria Dillard 
2. Carolina 
3. Anita 
4. Christian 

Donatella's Car 
1.Tao 
2.Amanda 
3.Mary T. 

Donatella's Second 
1.John B. 
2. 

Unassigned:

==Soylent Green Showing!==

Doyne Farmer would like to have a showing of Soylent Green at his house. Please sign up here and JP will forward you more info. Depending on how many we have sign up, we'll assess transportation options.

John Paul's Car (4 seats) 
1.John Paul 
2.Mary Turnipseed 
3.Anita 
4. 

Debbie's Car (4 seats) 
1.Debbie 
2. 
3. 
4. 

1.[[John Paul]] 
2.[[Yao Yin]] 
3.[[Caleb Gallemore]] 
4.[[Hitesh Soneji]] 
5.[[Mary Turnipseed]] 
6.[[Eli Lazarus]] 
7.[[Veronika Huber]] 
8. Tess 
9.
10. [[Dana Coelho]] 
11. Joe Cresko 
12. Gabe Chan 
13. Lawrence Lin 
14. Shirley Papuga 
15. [[Hongtao Yi]] 
16. M.K. Dorsey 
17. Cecilia Roa-Garcia 
18. Amanda James 
19. [[David Bryngelsson]] 

==Bandelier Field Trip==

Would anybody be interested in taking a field trip to [http://www.nps.gov/band/index.htm Bandelier National Monument] for a hike? I'd like to go on Sunday July 18. We'll leave from St. John's at about 11:00 and hike for a few hours, then possibly take a trip up to the [http://www.vallescaldera.gov Valles Caldera] and Jemez Springs.

Please sign up if you're interested.

Sign Up
1.John Paul 
2.Yao 
3.Caleb Gallemore 
4.Gabe Chan 
5.[[Hitesh Soneji]] 
6.Lisa Curran 
7.[[Dana Coelho]] - I would love a ride but can also drive if the need arises! 
8. Joe Cresko 
9. Lawrence Lin 
10. Amanda James 
11. Hongtao Yi 
12. Tess 
14. [[Michael Dorsey]] 
15. Cecilia Roa-Garcia 
16. Deva 

==Ghost Ranch Field Trip==
Is anyone interested in a trip to Abiquiu to [http://www.ghostranch.org/ Ghost Ranch] for a hike?
You can study system collapse, there are carnivorous dinosaur fossils.
Please sign up here if you are interested in going, and if people want to go we will schedule everyone agrees on.

== Farmers Markets ==

The [http://www.santafefarmersmarket.com/ Santa Fe Farmers' Market] is Open Every Tuesday and Saturday in the Santa Fe Railyard! 7am-Noon. The Market is also open Thursday nights from 3-7 pm.

== Open Hours Gym ==

SAC Hours from May 31 – August 14 are:

Monday 6a-7p
Tuesday 6a-8p
Wednesday 6a-8p
Thursday 6a-7p
Friday 6a-7p
Saturday 10a-5p
Sunday CLOSED

There will be open volleyball on Mondays, 4:30-6:30p and open basketball on Thursdays from 4:30-6:30p.

2010 Global Sustainability Summer School-After Hours

2010-07-15T11:53:00Z

Anitac: /* Synergia Ranch */

{{GSSS 2010}}

==Taos Field Trip==
We've arranged a tour of an [http://earthship.com/ Earthship] in Taos on Saturday.

Please sign up here if you are interested in going.

1.Shirley 
2.Anita 
3.Tess 
4.Amanda 
5.Veronika 
6.Mary 
7.Dana 
8.Hitesh 
9.John 
10.Lawrence 
11.Steve 
12. David 
13. Caleb 
14.Dana Jackman 
15.Tao 
16.Eli 
17. Cecilia 
18. Deva 
19.Joe Cresko 
20.Yao 
21. 
22. 
23. 
24. 
25. 
26. 
27. 
28. 
29. 
30. 

==Synergia Ranch==
[http://www.synergiaranch.com/ Synergia Ranch] has invited us to dinner and a tour of their operations on Thursday the 15th (after the Biosphere Colloquium). Please sign up here so that we have an idea of who's going.

John Paul's Camry (4 seats) 
1.JP 
2.Hitesh 
3.Stevie P. 
4.Robbie 

Doynemobile (2 seats) 
1.Doyne Farmer 
2.M. K. Dorsey

Dana's Car (4 seats) 
1.Dana C. 
2.Janeane 
3.Joe Cresko 
4.Tess 

George Johnson 
1. Yao 
2. Dana Jackman 
3 Shirley Papuga 
4. Cecilia Roa-Garcia 
5. Veronika

Debbie's Car 
1.David B 
2.Gabe C. 
3.Caleb G. 

Jim Crutchfield 
1.Jim Crutchfield 
2.Lawrence 
3.Eli Lazarus 
4.Deva 

Gina LaCerva 
1. Maria Dillard 
2. Carolina 
3. Anita 
4. Christian 

Donatella's Car 
1.Tao 
2.Amanda 
3.Mary T. 

Donatella's Second 
1.John B. 
2. 

Unassigned:

==Soylent Green Showing!==

Doyne Farmer would like to have a showing of Soylent Green at his house. Please sign up here and JP will forward you more info. Depending on how many we have sign up, we'll assess transportation options.

John Paul's Car (4 seats) 
1.John Paul 
2.Mary Turnipseed 
3. 
4. 

Debbie's Car (4 seats) 
1.Debbie 
2. 
3. 
4. 

1.[[John Paul]] 
2.[[Yao Yin]] 
3.[[Caleb Gallemore]] 
4.[[Hitesh Soneji]] 
5.[[Mary Turnipseed]] 
6.[[Eli Lazarus]] 
7.[[Veronika Huber]] 
8. Tess 
9.
10. [[Dana Coelho]] 
11. Joe Cresko 
12. Gabe Chan 
13. Lawrence Lin 
14. Shirley Papuga 
15. [[Hongtao Yi]] 
16. M.K. Dorsey 
17. Cecilia Roa-Garcia 
18. Amanda James 
19. [[David Bryngelsson]] 

==Bandelier Field Trip==

Would anybody be interested in taking a field trip to [http://www.nps.gov/band/index.htm Bandelier National Monument] for a hike? I'd like to go on Sunday July 18. We'll leave from St. John's at about 11:00 and hike for a few hours, then possibly take a trip up to the [http://www.vallescaldera.gov Valles Caldera] and Jemez Springs.

Please sign up if you're interested.

Sign Up
1.John Paul 
2.Yao 
3.Caleb Gallemore 
4.Gabe Chan 
5.[[Hitesh Soneji]] 
6.Lisa Curran 
7.[[Dana Coelho]] - I would love a ride but can also drive if the need arises! 
8. Joe Cresko 
9. Lawrence Lin 
10. Amanda James 
11. Hongtao Yi 
12. Tess 
14. [[Michael Dorsey]] 
15. Cecilia Roa-Garcia 
16. Deva 

==Ghost Ranch Field Trip==
Is anyone interested in a trip to Abiquiu to [http://www.ghostranch.org/ Ghost Ranch] for a hike?
You can study system collapse, there are carnivorous dinosaur fossils.
Please sign up here if you are interested in going, and if people want to go we will schedule everyone agrees on.

== Farmers Markets ==

The [http://www.santafefarmersmarket.com/ Santa Fe Farmers' Market] is Open Every Tuesday and Saturday in the Santa Fe Railyard! 7am-Noon. The Market is also open Thursday nights from 3-7 pm.

== Open Hours Gym ==

SAC Hours from May 31 – August 14 are:

Monday 6a-7p
Tuesday 6a-8p
Wednesday 6a-8p
Thursday 6a-7p
Friday 6a-7p
Saturday 10a-5p
Sunday CLOSED

There will be open volleyball on Mondays, 4:30-6:30p and open basketball on Thursdays from 4:30-6:30p.

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2010-07-13T19:16:24Z

Anitac:

Anita Carrasco

2010-07-13T04:10:35Z

Anitac:

Dorm Room Number: 505-9954284/Extension No. 4284

My name is Anita Carrasco, I was born in 1977 in Santiago-Chile and was raised in a mining town in northern chile. I am currently a last year PhD student at the School of Anthropology at The University of Arizona. I am writing my dissertation titled: One World, Many Ethics. The Politics of Mining and Indigenous Peoples in Atacama. In the context of my research interests, the concept of sustainable development has attracted my attention in my effort to understand how mining corporations around the world are making claims of sustainability in the way they conduct business. It is hard to believe claims that hold that it is possible to extract non-renewal natural resources and at the same time be sustainable with the environment and communities nearby mining sites. If we revise the concept of sustainability, it was first introduced to the public in 1987 by the Brundland Report titled Our Common Future. Here, sustainability was defined as “the ability to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations…to meet their own needs.” If critical, the first question that should arise from this broad and vague definition is who defines what those ‘needs’ are? In my research, I have been studying the relations between the national copper corporation of Chile (CODELCO) and Atacameño indigenous peoples in northern Chile. Atacameño men and women have been subject to the impacts of mining throughout the course of the 20th century and still are today. My research investigates: (1) how a mining economy has impacted the lives and families of Atacameños in the city of Calama and the rural villages of Cupo, Turi and Toconce. Specifically, it will compare and contrast ethical systems that shape views of justice and the environment in the world: indigenous peoples’ views, mining corporations’ views, and the state, and (2) how the different underlying ethical systems are determining the outcomes of corporation-community relations in the Atacama region and how they influence political decisions that regulate these relationships.
For Atacameños, ideas of citizenship, identity, and forced migrations are deeply politicized due to the historical presence of mineral and water extraction in the Atacama Desert. The War of the Pacific against Peru and Bolivia (1879) led to a Chilean annexation of the territory that inaugurated a process of exploitation for Nitrate by English firms until the early 1900s, and Copper by American firms (Anaconda) from the beginning of the 20th century until 1970. This was the year when the socialist government of Salvador Allende nationalized the copper industry (Sanhueza and Gundermann 2007). While Atacameños’s opposition to mining is mainly focused on a critique of the excessive ‘greed’ of corporations, specially their voracious consumption of water in the region, the Chilean government has promoted the development of large-scale resource extraction projects as a priority for the country. This has displaced the interests of minorities and has ignored the historical impacts that mining has had on Atacameños in the region such as the deterioration of agricultural and herding activities. Consequently, the political resentment in particular among urban Atacameños, has caused social bitterness and dislike among the different interests groups.
Indigenous narratives challenge official versions of mining-community relations in the region, particularly government claims of sustainability, and versions of territoriality and water represented by the Chilean state, the National Copper Corporation (CODELCO) and other private mining firms working in the region. In my research, Atacameño narratives are viewed as accounts of local understandings of historical relationships with mining corporations that expose complex internal divisions among Atacameños absent from official narratives that serve to support the state, corporations, and their political and economic agendas.
My research will provide new insights on the role of ethics in the shaping of mining-community relations. In particular, it looks at how political decisions that regulate them are being legitimized through the co-optation of the discourse of sustainable development. This co-optation of sustainability allows the state and corporations to move current problems of environmental and social impacts to an unspecified time of future generations. This move distracts attention from the contemporary transformations that the peoples of today are going through. These transformations are making people’s livelihoods and cultures unsustainable in the contexts of those who have the power to define the “needs’ of present and future generations.

Anita Carrasco

2010-07-13T00:13:55Z

Anitac:

My name is Anita Carrasco, I was born in 1977 in Santiago-Chile and was raised in a mining town in northern chile. I am currently a last year PhD student at the School of Anthropology at The University of Arizona. I am writing my dissertation titled: One World, Many Ethics. The Politics of Mining and Indigenous Peoples in Atacama. In the context of my research interests, the concept of sustainable development has attracted my attention in my effort to understand how mining corporations around the world are making claims of sustainability in the way they conduct business. It is hard to believe claims that hold that it is possible to extract non-renewal natural resources and at the same time be sustainable with the environment and communities nearby mining sites. If we revise the concept of sustainability, it was first introduced to the public in 1987 by the Brundland Report titled Our Common Future. Here, sustainability was defined as “the ability to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations…to meet their own needs.” If critical, the first question that should arise from this broad and vague definition is who defines what those ‘needs’ are? In my research, I have been studying the relations between the national copper corporation of Chile (CODELCO) and Atacameño indigenous peoples in northern Chile. Atacameño men and women have been subject to the impacts of mining throughout the course of the 20th century and still are today. My research investigates: (1) how a mining economy has impacted the lives and families of Atacameños in the city of Calama and the rural villages of Cupo, Turi and Toconce. Specifically, it will compare and contrast ethical systems that shape views of justice and the environment in the world: indigenous peoples’ views, mining corporations’ views, and the state, and (2) how the different underlying ethical systems are determining the outcomes of corporation-community relations in the Atacama region and how they influence political decisions that regulate these relationships.
For Atacameños, ideas of citizenship, identity, and forced migrations are deeply politicized due to the historical presence of mineral and water extraction in the Atacama Desert. The War of the Pacific against Peru and Bolivia (1879) led to a Chilean annexation of the territory that inaugurated a process of exploitation for Nitrate by English firms until the early 1900s, and Copper by American firms (Anaconda) from the beginning of the 20th century until 1970. This was the year when the socialist government of Salvador Allende nationalized the copper industry (Sanhueza and Gundermann 2007). While Atacameños’s opposition to mining is mainly focused on a critique of the excessive ‘greed’ of corporations, specially their voracious consumption of water in the region, the Chilean government has promoted the development of large-scale resource extraction projects as a priority for the country. This has displaced the interests of minorities and has ignored the historical impacts that mining has had on Atacameños in the region such as the deterioration of agricultural and herding activities. Consequently, the political resentment in particular among urban Atacameños, has caused social bitterness and dislike among the different interests groups.
Indigenous narratives challenge official versions of mining-community relations in the region, particularly government claims of sustainability, and versions of territoriality and water represented by the Chilean state, the National Copper Corporation (CODELCO) and other private mining firms working in the region. In my research, Atacameño narratives are viewed as accounts of local understandings of historical relationships with mining corporations that expose complex internal divisions among Atacameños absent from official narratives that serve to support the state, corporations, and their political and economic agendas.
My research will provide new insights on the role of ethics in the shaping of mining-community relations. In particular, it looks at how political decisions that regulate them are being legitimized through the co-optation of the discourse of sustainable development. This co-optation of sustainability allows the state and corporations to move current problems of environmental and social impacts to an unspecified time of future generations. This move distracts attention from the contemporary transformations that the peoples of today are going through. These transformations are making people’s livelihoods and cultures unsustainable in the contexts of those who have the power to define the “needs’ of present and future generations.

Anita Carrasco

2010-07-13T00:12:52Z

Anitac: New page: My name is Anita Carrasco, I was born in 1977 in Santiago-Chile and was raised in a mining town in northern chile. I am currently a last year PhD student at the School of Anthropology at T...