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Summer School on Global Sustainability-Research Agendas

2009-08-19T09:39:21Z

Sborgeson:

{{Summer School on Global Sustainability}}
[[Media:Climate_Change.pdf|Climate Change: Translating Science into Policy]], by Samir Doshi, Carla Frisch, Gregory Jones, April LaCroix, Johnson Nkem, Fernando Ona, and Moira Zellner

[[Media:ComplexityClimateModels-1.pdf|Opportunities for Complexity Theory to Advance Climate Change Research]], by Christa Brelsford, Regina Clewlow, Joseph Geddes, Gina LaCerva, Ha Nguyen, and Adam Wolf

[[Media:Ecosystem.pdf|A Research Agenda to Sustain and Enhance Ecosystem Services]], by Greg Gong, Sharon Gourdji, Ione Hunt von Herbing, Nir Krakauer, Anthony McGinnis, Nathan Mueller, Derek Robinson, and David Zaks

[[Media:Behavior_and_culture.pdf‎|Behavior and Culture: A proposal for achieving timely and enduring social responses to climate change]] by Yazidhi Bamutaze, Sam Borgeson, Catherine Bottrill, Alan Bush, Jerome Dangerman, Alison Hagerman, Andy Jones, Jennifer Kane, and David Sammeth

File:Behavior and culture.pdf

2009-08-19T09:37:31Z

Sborgeson: Proposal on behavioral and cultural research in support of timely and enduring mitigation.

Proposal on behavioral and cultural research in support of timely and enduring mitigation.

Summer School on Global Sustainability-Readings

2009-07-27T21:57:20Z

Sborgeson: /* Urban Form and Buildings */

{{Summer School on Global Sustainability}}

'''Please note that the [[Summer School on Global Sustainability-Lectures]] page may have additional assignments.

==Preface==
The Global Sustainainability Summer School co-directors have recommended the following speech by President Barack Obama as a preface to your time at the program.

* [http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/04/27/obama_speech_academy_of_sciences_transcript_96221.html President Obama's speech to the National Academy of Sciences, 4 April, 2009.]

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5-MgZD5IMc Video]

==Partha Dasgupta==

The following papers should be read as supplemental to those lectures given, and for the program at large:

* [[Media:Commons.pdf|Common Property Resources: Economic Analysis]]
* [[Media:MatterOfTrust.pdf | A Matter of Trust: Social Capital and Economic Development]]
* [[Media:PlaceOfNature.pdf | The Place of Nature in Economic Development]]

==Arnulf Grübler==

* [[Media:Industrialization1.pdf | Industrialization as a Historical Phenomenon]]
* [[Media:TimeForChangePaper.pdf | Time for Change: On the Patterns of Diffusion of Innovation]]

==Dennis Meadows==

Please review the Fishbanks Game Manual for Professor Meadows' second lecture on Thursday July 23. Hard copies will be available that day.
* [[Media:FB_Role.doc | Fishbanks Game Manual]]

==Chuck Kutscher==

Please read the appendix and "Overview and Summary of the Studies" from the ASES "Tackling Climate Change" report as well as the coal phaseout paper and the column on Concentrating Solar Power.
* [[Media:Tackling Climate Change.pdf | Tackling Climate Change in the U.S.]]
*[[Media:Coal Phaseout 2030.pdf | Coal Phaseout Paper]]
*[[Media:SOLAR TODAY Column-CSP.pdf | CSP Article]]
For those interested, here is the paper by Jim Hansen and his colleagues arguing that atmospheric CO2 must be brought below 350 ppm:
*[[Media:Hansen 350 Target Paper.pdf | Hansen 350 target paper]]
For those interested, student posters from my "Climate Change Solutions" class are on the web at: http://picasaweb.google.com/ChuckGCO/ClimateChangeSolutionsClassPosters122608517PM?pli=1#

==Participant-Suggested Readings==

===Urban Form and Buildings===

Stewart Brand's [http://www.amazon.com/How-Buildings-Learn-Happens-Theyre/dp/0140139966 How Buildings Learn: What Happens After they are Built] offers some clues about how we might conceptualize and approach a reworking of building energy use. - Sam

Jane Jacobs' [http://www.amazon.com/Death-American-Cities-Modern-Library/dp/0679600477 The Death and Life of Great American Cities] is an absolutely classic book on the factors that determine the vitality of cities. Highly recommended for anyone who dreams of a reconfigured urban infrastructure. See also [http://www.amazon.com/Cities-Wealth-Nations-Jane-Jacobs/dp/0394729110 Cities and the Wealth of Nations], [http://www.amazon.com/Economy-Cities-Jane-Jacobs/dp/039470584X The Economy of Cities], and [http://www.amazon.com/Nature-Economies-Jane-Jacobs/dp/0375702431 The Nature of Economies] - Sam

===Business===

Michael Schuman's [http://www.amazon.com/Small-Mart-Revolution-Businesses-Beating-Competition/dp/1576753867 The Small-Mart Revolution: How Local Businesses Are Beating the Global Competition] discusses the virtues of robust local economies. - Sam

===Climate Change===
David Archer at the University of Chicago wrote a great primer on climate change science, [http://geodoc.uchicago.edu/ Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast]. --Danny

George Monbiot, a journalist from the UK wrote a well referenced book looking at the plausibility of 90% CO2 reduction by 2030 called [http://www.turnuptheheat.org/?page_id=7 Heat: How To Stop the Planet Burning]. It's a sector by sector look at mitigation opportunities. [http://www.amazon.com/Heat-How-Stop-Planet-Burning/dp/0896087875 Amazon]. - Sam

Spencer Weart's [http://www.aip.org/history/climate/ The Discovery of Global Warming] is a great history of the development of the science of climate change. [http://www.amazon.com/Discovery-expanded-Histories-Technology-Medicine/dp/067403189X Amazon]. - Sam

Ross Gelbspan's [http://www.amazon.com/Boiling-Point-Politicians-Journalists-Crisis/dp/0465027628 Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists, and Activists Have Fueled a Climate Crisis--And What We Can Do to Avert Disaster] reports on the role of the media and special interests in getting the climate story wrong. It is his follow up to [http://www.amazon.com/Heat-Climate-Crisis-Cover-up-Prescription/dp/0738200255 The Heat Is On], which documents the energy industry disinformation campaign. - Sam

===Consumption===

Willaim Rathje and Cullen Murphy's [http://www.amazon.com/Rubbish-Archaeology-Garbage-William-Rathje/dp/0816521433 Rubbish: The Archaeology of Garbage] takes an empirical look at how and what we consume. Hint: we lie on surveys! - Sam

[http://www.storyofstuff.com/ The Story of Stuff] by Annie Leonard is a great web video on the global impacts of consumption. - Sam

===Geology & Land Use===
Wes Jackson's [http://www.amazon.com/New-Roots-Agriculture-Farming-Ranching/dp/0803275625 New Roots for Agriculture] describes a potentially new approach to agriculture based on perennial plants that restores rather than destroys habitat. - Sam

Aldo Leopold's [http://www.amazon.com/Sand-County-Almanac-Sketches-There/dp/B001JEFY66 A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There] is a beautifully written book on habitat, land restoration, and ultimately man's moral relationship with land (aka his Land Ethic). A classic for good reason. - Sam

===Ecology===
Alan Weisman's [http://www.amazon.com/World-Without-Us-Alan-Weisman/dp/B002BWQ4XW The World Without Us] is a sort of speculative disaster ecology book that looks at what would happen to the world if we suddenly disappeared. Neither morbid nor depressing. - Sam

===Economics===

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Is_Beautiful Small is Beautiful] by E.F. Shumacher and its supplemental essay [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Guide_for_the_Perplexed A Guide for the Perplexed]. Very much in the philosophical spectrum of ecology and economics. A bit dated perhaps, but the material is still very relevant to much of the movement today. -[[JP]]

Herman Daley, a world bank economist turned Zero Growth advocate has written several books on the subject. For example, [http://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Growth-Economics-Sustainable-Development/dp/0807047090 Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development]. He's not a page turning author, but the ideas and criticisms are fascinating. - Sam

===Energy Industry===

Daniel Yergin's classic [http://www.amazon.com/Prize-Epic-Quest-Money-Power/dp/1439110123 The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil Money and Power] on the origin and development of the oil industry. - Sam

David Roe's [http://www.amazon.com/Dynamos-Virgins-David-Roe/dp/0394528980 Dynamos and Virgins] is an out of print account of the battle behind energy regulation in California. It gives a great sense of what it takes to change industry practice and is perhaps a glimpse of what is yet to come. - Sam

===Oceans===

James Hamilton-Paterson's [http://www.amazon.com/Seven-Tenths-James-Hamilton-Paterson/dp/1933372699 Seven Tenths: The Sea and Its Thresholds] is a collection of beautifully written essays about the oceans. - Sam

===Population===

"The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100: Europe, America, and the Third World" - Robert William Fogel

===Technology & Technological Change===

Gil Masters wrote an excellent textbook, [http://www.amazon.com/Renewable-Efficient-Electric-Power-Systems/dp/0471280607 Renewable and Efficient Electric Power Systems]. The book covers wind, solar PV, and energy efficiency technology analysis comprehensively. Gil's book is great for professional engineers, but also incredibly approachable, requiring no background beyond high school math. Among other things, it gives the tools needed to design home power systems. --Danny

Alexandra Von Meier has a primer on the electricity sector, [http://www.amazon.com/Electric-Power-Systems-Introduction-Engineering/dp/0471178594 Electric Power Systems: A Conceptual Introduction]. Written for the general post-college audience, it's a must-have for anyone who wants to understand the electricity industry. --Danny

J. R. McNeill's [http://www.amazon.com/Something-New-Under-Environmental-Twentieth-Century/dp/0393321835 Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the 20th Century World] is a history book that argues that environmental change will come to be seen as the 20th centuries most important event. - Sam

===Transportation===

"Two Billions Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability" - Daniel Sperling, Deborah Gordon

"Transportation in a Climate-Constrained World" - Andreas Schafer, John B. Heywood, Henry D. Jacoby, Ian A. Waitz

===Water===

Vandana Shiva is an Indian Physicist turned activist. Her book [http://www.amazon.com/Water-Wars-Privatization-Pollution-Profit/dp/089608650X Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit] reminds us that for many people on earth, access to water is a most urgent concern. Conflicts over water are already changing people's lives. - Sam

Summer School on Global Sustainability-Readings

2009-07-27T21:56:59Z

Sborgeson: /* Participant-Suggested Readings */

{{Summer School on Global Sustainability}}

'''Please note that the [[Summer School on Global Sustainability-Lectures]] page may have additional assignments.

==Preface==
The Global Sustainainability Summer School co-directors have recommended the following speech by President Barack Obama as a preface to your time at the program.

* [http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/04/27/obama_speech_academy_of_sciences_transcript_96221.html President Obama's speech to the National Academy of Sciences, 4 April, 2009.]

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5-MgZD5IMc Video]

==Partha Dasgupta==

The following papers should be read as supplemental to those lectures given, and for the program at large:

* [[Media:Commons.pdf|Common Property Resources: Economic Analysis]]
* [[Media:MatterOfTrust.pdf | A Matter of Trust: Social Capital and Economic Development]]
* [[Media:PlaceOfNature.pdf | The Place of Nature in Economic Development]]

==Arnulf Grübler==

* [[Media:Industrialization1.pdf | Industrialization as a Historical Phenomenon]]
* [[Media:TimeForChangePaper.pdf | Time for Change: On the Patterns of Diffusion of Innovation]]

==Dennis Meadows==

Please review the Fishbanks Game Manual for Professor Meadows' second lecture on Thursday July 23. Hard copies will be available that day.
* [[Media:FB_Role.doc | Fishbanks Game Manual]]

==Chuck Kutscher==

Please read the appendix and "Overview and Summary of the Studies" from the ASES "Tackling Climate Change" report as well as the coal phaseout paper and the column on Concentrating Solar Power.
* [[Media:Tackling Climate Change.pdf | Tackling Climate Change in the U.S.]]
*[[Media:Coal Phaseout 2030.pdf | Coal Phaseout Paper]]
*[[Media:SOLAR TODAY Column-CSP.pdf | CSP Article]]
For those interested, here is the paper by Jim Hansen and his colleagues arguing that atmospheric CO2 must be brought below 350 ppm:
*[[Media:Hansen 350 Target Paper.pdf | Hansen 350 target paper]]
For those interested, student posters from my "Climate Change Solutions" class are on the web at: http://picasaweb.google.com/ChuckGCO/ClimateChangeSolutionsClassPosters122608517PM?pli=1#

==Participant-Suggested Readings==

===Urban Form and Buildings===

Stewart Brand's [http://www.amazon.com/How-Buildings-Learn-Happens-Theyre/dp/0140139966 How Buildings Learn: What Happens After they are Built] offers some clues about how we might conceptualize and approach a reworking of building energy use. - Sam

Jane Jacobs' [http://www.amazon.com/Death-American-Cities-Modern-Library/dp/0679600477 The Death and Life of Great American Cities] is an absolutely classic book on the factors that determine the vitality of cities. Highly recommended for anyone who dreams of a reconfigured urban infrastructure. See also [http://www.amazon.com/Cities-Wealth-Nations-Jane-Jacobs/dp/0394729110 Cities and the Wealth of Nations], [http://www.amazon.com/Economy-Cities-Jane-Jacobs/dp/039470584X The Economy of Cities], and [http://www.amazon.com/Nature-Economies-Jane-Jacobs/dp/0375702431 The Nature of Economies]- Sam

===Business===

Michael Schuman's [http://www.amazon.com/Small-Mart-Revolution-Businesses-Beating-Competition/dp/1576753867 The Small-Mart Revolution: How Local Businesses Are Beating the Global Competition] discusses the virtues of robust local economies. - Sam

===Climate Change===
David Archer at the University of Chicago wrote a great primer on climate change science, [http://geodoc.uchicago.edu/ Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast]. --Danny

George Monbiot, a journalist from the UK wrote a well referenced book looking at the plausibility of 90% CO2 reduction by 2030 called [http://www.turnuptheheat.org/?page_id=7 Heat: How To Stop the Planet Burning]. It's a sector by sector look at mitigation opportunities. [http://www.amazon.com/Heat-How-Stop-Planet-Burning/dp/0896087875 Amazon]. - Sam

Spencer Weart's [http://www.aip.org/history/climate/ The Discovery of Global Warming] is a great history of the development of the science of climate change. [http://www.amazon.com/Discovery-expanded-Histories-Technology-Medicine/dp/067403189X Amazon]. - Sam

Ross Gelbspan's [http://www.amazon.com/Boiling-Point-Politicians-Journalists-Crisis/dp/0465027628 Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists, and Activists Have Fueled a Climate Crisis--And What We Can Do to Avert Disaster] reports on the role of the media and special interests in getting the climate story wrong. It is his follow up to [http://www.amazon.com/Heat-Climate-Crisis-Cover-up-Prescription/dp/0738200255 The Heat Is On], which documents the energy industry disinformation campaign. - Sam

===Consumption===

Willaim Rathje and Cullen Murphy's [http://www.amazon.com/Rubbish-Archaeology-Garbage-William-Rathje/dp/0816521433 Rubbish: The Archaeology of Garbage] takes an empirical look at how and what we consume. Hint: we lie on surveys! - Sam

[http://www.storyofstuff.com/ The Story of Stuff] by Annie Leonard is a great web video on the global impacts of consumption. - Sam

===Geology & Land Use===
Wes Jackson's [http://www.amazon.com/New-Roots-Agriculture-Farming-Ranching/dp/0803275625 New Roots for Agriculture] describes a potentially new approach to agriculture based on perennial plants that restores rather than destroys habitat. - Sam

Aldo Leopold's [http://www.amazon.com/Sand-County-Almanac-Sketches-There/dp/B001JEFY66 A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There] is a beautifully written book on habitat, land restoration, and ultimately man's moral relationship with land (aka his Land Ethic). A classic for good reason. - Sam

===Ecology===
Alan Weisman's [http://www.amazon.com/World-Without-Us-Alan-Weisman/dp/B002BWQ4XW The World Without Us] is a sort of speculative disaster ecology book that looks at what would happen to the world if we suddenly disappeared. Neither morbid nor depressing. - Sam

===Economics===

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Is_Beautiful Small is Beautiful] by E.F. Shumacher and its supplemental essay [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Guide_for_the_Perplexed A Guide for the Perplexed]. Very much in the philosophical spectrum of ecology and economics. A bit dated perhaps, but the material is still very relevant to much of the movement today. -[[JP]]

Herman Daley, a world bank economist turned Zero Growth advocate has written several books on the subject. For example, [http://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Growth-Economics-Sustainable-Development/dp/0807047090 Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development]. He's not a page turning author, but the ideas and criticisms are fascinating. - Sam

===Energy Industry===

Daniel Yergin's classic [http://www.amazon.com/Prize-Epic-Quest-Money-Power/dp/1439110123 The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil Money and Power] on the origin and development of the oil industry. - Sam

David Roe's [http://www.amazon.com/Dynamos-Virgins-David-Roe/dp/0394528980 Dynamos and Virgins] is an out of print account of the battle behind energy regulation in California. It gives a great sense of what it takes to change industry practice and is perhaps a glimpse of what is yet to come. - Sam

===Oceans===

James Hamilton-Paterson's [http://www.amazon.com/Seven-Tenths-James-Hamilton-Paterson/dp/1933372699 Seven Tenths: The Sea and Its Thresholds] is a collection of beautifully written essays about the oceans. - Sam

===Population===

"The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100: Europe, America, and the Third World" - Robert William Fogel

===Technology & Technological Change===

Gil Masters wrote an excellent textbook, [http://www.amazon.com/Renewable-Efficient-Electric-Power-Systems/dp/0471280607 Renewable and Efficient Electric Power Systems]. The book covers wind, solar PV, and energy efficiency technology analysis comprehensively. Gil's book is great for professional engineers, but also incredibly approachable, requiring no background beyond high school math. Among other things, it gives the tools needed to design home power systems. --Danny

Alexandra Von Meier has a primer on the electricity sector, [http://www.amazon.com/Electric-Power-Systems-Introduction-Engineering/dp/0471178594 Electric Power Systems: A Conceptual Introduction]. Written for the general post-college audience, it's a must-have for anyone who wants to understand the electricity industry. --Danny

J. R. McNeill's [http://www.amazon.com/Something-New-Under-Environmental-Twentieth-Century/dp/0393321835 Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the 20th Century World] is a history book that argues that environmental change will come to be seen as the 20th centuries most important event. - Sam

===Transportation===

"Two Billions Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability" - Daniel Sperling, Deborah Gordon

"Transportation in a Climate-Constrained World" - Andreas Schafer, John B. Heywood, Henry D. Jacoby, Ian A. Waitz

===Water===

Vandana Shiva is an Indian Physicist turned activist. Her book [http://www.amazon.com/Water-Wars-Privatization-Pollution-Profit/dp/089608650X Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit] reminds us that for many people on earth, access to water is a most urgent concern. Conflicts over water are already changing people's lives. - Sam

Summer School on Global Sustainability-Readings

2009-07-27T21:11:57Z

Sborgeson: /* Energy Industry */

{{Summer School on Global Sustainability}}

'''Please note that the [[Summer School on Global Sustainability-Lectures]] page may have additional assignments.

==Preface==
The Global Sustainainability Summer School co-directors have recommended the following speech by President Barack Obama as a preface to your time at the program.

* [http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/04/27/obama_speech_academy_of_sciences_transcript_96221.html President Obama's speech to the National Academy of Sciences, 4 April, 2009.]

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5-MgZD5IMc Video]

==Partha Dasgupta==

The following papers should be read as supplemental to those lectures given, and for the program at large:

* [[Media:Commons.pdf|Common Property Resources: Economic Analysis]]
* [[Media:MatterOfTrust.pdf | A Matter of Trust: Social Capital and Economic Development]]
* [[Media:PlaceOfNature.pdf | The Place of Nature in Economic Development]]

==Arnulf Grübler==

* [[Media:Industrialization1.pdf | Industrialization as a Historical Phenomenon]]
* [[Media:TimeForChangePaper.pdf | Time for Change: On the Patterns of Diffusion of Innovation]]

==Dennis Meadows==

Please review the Fishbanks Game Manual for Professor Meadows' second lecture on Thursday July 23. Hard copies will be available that day.
* [[Media:FB_Role.doc | Fishbanks Game Manual]]

==Chuck Kutscher==

Please read the appendix and "Overview and Summary of the Studies" from the ASES "Tackling Climate Change" report as well as the coal phaseout paper and the column on Concentrating Solar Power.
* [[Media:Tackling Climate Change.pdf | Tackling Climate Change in the U.S.]]
*[[Media:Coal Phaseout 2030.pdf | Coal Phaseout Paper]]
*[[Media:SOLAR TODAY Column-CSP.pdf | CSP Article]]
For those interested, here is the paper by Jim Hansen and his colleagues arguing that atmospheric CO2 must be brought below 350 ppm:
*[[Media:Hansen 350 Target Paper.pdf | Hansen 350 target paper]]
For those interested, student posters from my "Climate Change Solutions" class are on the web at: http://picasaweb.google.com/ChuckGCO/ClimateChangeSolutionsClassPosters122608517PM?pli=1#

==Participant-Suggested Readings==

===Buildings===

Stewart Brand's [http://www.amazon.com/How-Buildings-Learn-Happens-Theyre/dp/0140139966 How Buildings Learn: What Happens After they are Built] offers some clues about how we might conceptualize and approach a reworking of building energy use. - Sam

===Business===

Michael Schuman's [http://www.amazon.com/Small-Mart-Revolution-Businesses-Beating-Competition/dp/1576753867 The Small-Mart Revolution: How Local Businesses Are Beating the Global Competition] discusses the virtues of robust local economies. - Sam

===Climate Change===
David Archer at the University of Chicago wrote a great primer on climate change science, [http://geodoc.uchicago.edu/ Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast]. --Danny

George Monbiot, a journalist from the UK wrote a well referenced book looking at the plausibility of 90% CO2 reduction by 2030 called [http://www.turnuptheheat.org/?page_id=7 Heat: How To Stop the Planet Burning]. It's a sector by sector look at mitigation opportunities. [http://www.amazon.com/Heat-How-Stop-Planet-Burning/dp/0896087875 Amazon]. - Sam

Spencer Weart's [http://www.aip.org/history/climate/ The Discovery of Global Warming] is a great history of the development of the science of climate change. [http://www.amazon.com/Discovery-expanded-Histories-Technology-Medicine/dp/067403189X Amazon]. - Sam

Ross Gelbspan's [http://www.amazon.com/Boiling-Point-Politicians-Journalists-Crisis/dp/0465027628 Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists, and Activists Have Fueled a Climate Crisis--And What We Can Do to Avert Disaster] reports on the role of the media and special interests in getting the climate story wrong. It is his follow up to [http://www.amazon.com/Heat-Climate-Crisis-Cover-up-Prescription/dp/0738200255 The Heat Is On], which documents the energy industry disinformation campaign. - Sam

===Consumption===

Willaim Rathje and Cullen Murphy's [http://www.amazon.com/Rubbish-Archaeology-Garbage-William-Rathje/dp/0816521433 Rubbish: The Archaeology of Garbage] takes an empirical look at how and what we consume. Hint: we lie on surveys! - Sam

[http://www.storyofstuff.com/ The Story of Stuff] by Annie Leonard is a great web video on the global impacts of consumption. - Sam

===Geology & Land Use===
Wes Jackson's [http://www.amazon.com/New-Roots-Agriculture-Farming-Ranching/dp/0803275625 New Roots for Agriculture] describes a potentially new approach to agriculture based on perennial plants that restores rather than destroys habitat. - Sam

===Ecology===
Alan Weisman's [http://www.amazon.com/World-Without-Us-Alan-Weisman/dp/B002BWQ4XW The World Without Us] is a sort of speculative disaster ecology book that looks at what would happen to the world if we suddenly disappeared. Neither morbid nor depressing. - Sam

===Economics===

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Is_Beautiful Small is Beautiful] by E.F. Shumacher and its supplemental essay [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Guide_for_the_Perplexed A Guide for the Perplexed]. Very much in the philosophical spectrum of ecology and economics. A bit dated perhaps, but the material is still very relevant to much of the movement today. -[[JP]]

Herman Daley, a world bank economist turned Zero Growth advocate has written several books on the subject. For example, [http://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Growth-Economics-Sustainable-Development/dp/0807047090 Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development]. He's not a page turning author, but the ideas and criticisms are fascinating. - Sam

===Energy Industry===

Daniel Yergin's classic [http://www.amazon.com/Prize-Epic-Quest-Money-Power/dp/1439110123 The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil Money and Power] on the origin and development of the oil industry. - Sam

David Roe's [http://www.amazon.com/Dynamos-Virgins-David-Roe/dp/0394528980 Dynamos and Virgins] is an out of print account of the battle behind energy regulation in California. It gives a great sense of what it takes to change industry practice and is perhaps a glimpse of what is yet to come. - Sam

===Oceans===

James Hamilton-Paterson's [http://www.amazon.com/Seven-Tenths-James-Hamilton-Paterson/dp/1933372699 Seven Tenths: The Sea and Its Thresholds] is a collection of beautifully written essays about the oceans. - Sam

===Population===

"The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100: Europe, America, and the Third World" - Robert William Fogel

===Technology & Technological Change===

Gil Masters wrote an excellent textbook, [http://www.amazon.com/Renewable-Efficient-Electric-Power-Systems/dp/0471280607 Renewable and Efficient Electric Power Systems]. The book covers wind, solar PV, and energy efficiency technology analysis comprehensively. Gil's book is great for professional engineers, but also incredibly approachable, requiring no background beyond high school math. Among other things, it gives the tools needed to design home power systems. --Danny

Alexandra Von Meier has a primer on the electricity sector, [http://www.amazon.com/Electric-Power-Systems-Introduction-Engineering/dp/0471178594 Electric Power Systems: A Conceptual Introduction]. Written for the general post-college audience, it's a must-have for anyone who wants to understand the electricity industry. --Danny

J. R. McNeill's [http://www.amazon.com/Something-New-Under-Environmental-Twentieth-Century/dp/0393321835 Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the 20th Century World] is a history book that argues that environmental change will come to be seen as the 20th centuries most important event. - Sam

===Transportation===

"Two Billions Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability" - Daniel Sperling, Deborah Gordon

"Transportation in a Climate-Constrained World" - Andreas Schafer, John B. Heywood, Henry D. Jacoby, Ian A. Waitz

===Water===

Vandana Shiva is an Indian Physicist turned activist. Her book [http://www.amazon.com/Water-Wars-Privatization-Pollution-Profit/dp/089608650X Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit] reminds us that for many people on earth, access to water is a most urgent concern. Conflicts over water are already changing people's lives. - Sam

Summer School on Global Sustainability-Readings

2009-07-27T21:11:40Z

Sborgeson: /* Energy Industry */

{{Summer School on Global Sustainability}}

'''Please note that the [[Summer School on Global Sustainability-Lectures]] page may have additional assignments.

==Preface==
The Global Sustainainability Summer School co-directors have recommended the following speech by President Barack Obama as a preface to your time at the program.

* [http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/04/27/obama_speech_academy_of_sciences_transcript_96221.html President Obama's speech to the National Academy of Sciences, 4 April, 2009.]

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5-MgZD5IMc Video]

==Partha Dasgupta==

The following papers should be read as supplemental to those lectures given, and for the program at large:

* [[Media:Commons.pdf|Common Property Resources: Economic Analysis]]
* [[Media:MatterOfTrust.pdf | A Matter of Trust: Social Capital and Economic Development]]
* [[Media:PlaceOfNature.pdf | The Place of Nature in Economic Development]]

==Arnulf Grübler==

* [[Media:Industrialization1.pdf | Industrialization as a Historical Phenomenon]]
* [[Media:TimeForChangePaper.pdf | Time for Change: On the Patterns of Diffusion of Innovation]]

==Dennis Meadows==

Please review the Fishbanks Game Manual for Professor Meadows' second lecture on Thursday July 23. Hard copies will be available that day.
* [[Media:FB_Role.doc | Fishbanks Game Manual]]

==Chuck Kutscher==

Please read the appendix and "Overview and Summary of the Studies" from the ASES "Tackling Climate Change" report as well as the coal phaseout paper and the column on Concentrating Solar Power.
* [[Media:Tackling Climate Change.pdf | Tackling Climate Change in the U.S.]]
*[[Media:Coal Phaseout 2030.pdf | Coal Phaseout Paper]]
*[[Media:SOLAR TODAY Column-CSP.pdf | CSP Article]]
For those interested, here is the paper by Jim Hansen and his colleagues arguing that atmospheric CO2 must be brought below 350 ppm:
*[[Media:Hansen 350 Target Paper.pdf | Hansen 350 target paper]]
For those interested, student posters from my "Climate Change Solutions" class are on the web at: http://picasaweb.google.com/ChuckGCO/ClimateChangeSolutionsClassPosters122608517PM?pli=1#

==Participant-Suggested Readings==

===Buildings===

Stewart Brand's [http://www.amazon.com/How-Buildings-Learn-Happens-Theyre/dp/0140139966 How Buildings Learn: What Happens After they are Built] offers some clues about how we might conceptualize and approach a reworking of building energy use. - Sam

===Business===

Michael Schuman's [http://www.amazon.com/Small-Mart-Revolution-Businesses-Beating-Competition/dp/1576753867 The Small-Mart Revolution: How Local Businesses Are Beating the Global Competition] discusses the virtues of robust local economies. - Sam

===Climate Change===
David Archer at the University of Chicago wrote a great primer on climate change science, [http://geodoc.uchicago.edu/ Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast]. --Danny

George Monbiot, a journalist from the UK wrote a well referenced book looking at the plausibility of 90% CO2 reduction by 2030 called [http://www.turnuptheheat.org/?page_id=7 Heat: How To Stop the Planet Burning]. It's a sector by sector look at mitigation opportunities. [http://www.amazon.com/Heat-How-Stop-Planet-Burning/dp/0896087875 Amazon]. - Sam

Spencer Weart's [http://www.aip.org/history/climate/ The Discovery of Global Warming] is a great history of the development of the science of climate change. [http://www.amazon.com/Discovery-expanded-Histories-Technology-Medicine/dp/067403189X Amazon]. - Sam

Ross Gelbspan's [http://www.amazon.com/Boiling-Point-Politicians-Journalists-Crisis/dp/0465027628 Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists, and Activists Have Fueled a Climate Crisis--And What We Can Do to Avert Disaster] reports on the role of the media and special interests in getting the climate story wrong. It is his follow up to [http://www.amazon.com/Heat-Climate-Crisis-Cover-up-Prescription/dp/0738200255 The Heat Is On], which documents the energy industry disinformation campaign. - Sam

===Consumption===

Willaim Rathje and Cullen Murphy's [http://www.amazon.com/Rubbish-Archaeology-Garbage-William-Rathje/dp/0816521433 Rubbish: The Archaeology of Garbage] takes an empirical look at how and what we consume. Hint: we lie on surveys! - Sam

[http://www.storyofstuff.com/ The Story of Stuff] by Annie Leonard is a great web video on the global impacts of consumption. - Sam

===Geology & Land Use===
Wes Jackson's [http://www.amazon.com/New-Roots-Agriculture-Farming-Ranching/dp/0803275625 New Roots for Agriculture] describes a potentially new approach to agriculture based on perennial plants that restores rather than destroys habitat. - Sam

===Ecology===
Alan Weisman's [http://www.amazon.com/World-Without-Us-Alan-Weisman/dp/B002BWQ4XW The World Without Us] is a sort of speculative disaster ecology book that looks at what would happen to the world if we suddenly disappeared. Neither morbid nor depressing. - Sam

===Economics===

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Is_Beautiful Small is Beautiful] by E.F. Shumacher and its supplemental essay [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Guide_for_the_Perplexed A Guide for the Perplexed]. Very much in the philosophical spectrum of ecology and economics. A bit dated perhaps, but the material is still very relevant to much of the movement today. -[[JP]]

Herman Daley, a world bank economist turned Zero Growth advocate has written several books on the subject. For example, [http://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Growth-Economics-Sustainable-Development/dp/0807047090 Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development]. He's not a page turning author, but the ideas and criticisms are fascinating. - Sam

===Energy Industry===

Daniel Yergin's classic [http://www.amazon.com/Prize-Epic-Quest-Money-Power/dp/1439110123 The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil Money and Power] on the origin and development of the oil industry. - Sam

David Roe's [http://www.amazon.com/Dynamos-Virgins-David-Roe/dp/0394528980 Dynamos and Virgins] is an out of print account of the battle behind energy regulation in California. It give sa great sense of what it takes to change industry practice and is perhaps a glimpse of what is yet to come. - Sam

===Oceans===

James Hamilton-Paterson's [http://www.amazon.com/Seven-Tenths-James-Hamilton-Paterson/dp/1933372699 Seven Tenths: The Sea and Its Thresholds] is a collection of beautifully written essays about the oceans. - Sam

===Population===

"The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100: Europe, America, and the Third World" - Robert William Fogel

===Technology & Technological Change===

Gil Masters wrote an excellent textbook, [http://www.amazon.com/Renewable-Efficient-Electric-Power-Systems/dp/0471280607 Renewable and Efficient Electric Power Systems]. The book covers wind, solar PV, and energy efficiency technology analysis comprehensively. Gil's book is great for professional engineers, but also incredibly approachable, requiring no background beyond high school math. Among other things, it gives the tools needed to design home power systems. --Danny

Alexandra Von Meier has a primer on the electricity sector, [http://www.amazon.com/Electric-Power-Systems-Introduction-Engineering/dp/0471178594 Electric Power Systems: A Conceptual Introduction]. Written for the general post-college audience, it's a must-have for anyone who wants to understand the electricity industry. --Danny

J. R. McNeill's [http://www.amazon.com/Something-New-Under-Environmental-Twentieth-Century/dp/0393321835 Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the 20th Century World] is a history book that argues that environmental change will come to be seen as the 20th centuries most important event. - Sam

===Transportation===

"Two Billions Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability" - Daniel Sperling, Deborah Gordon

"Transportation in a Climate-Constrained World" - Andreas Schafer, John B. Heywood, Henry D. Jacoby, Ian A. Waitz

===Water===

Vandana Shiva is an Indian Physicist turned activist. Her book [http://www.amazon.com/Water-Wars-Privatization-Pollution-Profit/dp/089608650X Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit] reminds us that for many people on earth, access to water is a most urgent concern. Conflicts over water are already changing people's lives. - Sam

Summer School on Global Sustainability-Readings

2009-07-27T21:01:05Z

Sborgeson: /* Participant-Suggested Readings */

{{Summer School on Global Sustainability}}

'''Please note that the [[Summer School on Global Sustainability-Lectures]] page may have additional assignments.

==Preface==
The Global Sustainainability Summer School co-directors have recommended the following speech by President Barack Obama as a preface to your time at the program.

* [http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/04/27/obama_speech_academy_of_sciences_transcript_96221.html President Obama's speech to the National Academy of Sciences, 4 April, 2009.]

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5-MgZD5IMc Video]

==Partha Dasgupta==

The following papers should be read as supplemental to those lectures given, and for the program at large:

* [[Media:Commons.pdf|Common Property Resources: Economic Analysis]]
* [[Media:MatterOfTrust.pdf | A Matter of Trust: Social Capital and Economic Development]]
* [[Media:PlaceOfNature.pdf | The Place of Nature in Economic Development]]

==Arnulf Grübler==

* [[Media:Industrialization1.pdf | Industrialization as a Historical Phenomenon]]
* [[Media:TimeForChangePaper.pdf | Time for Change: On the Patterns of Diffusion of Innovation]]

==Dennis Meadows==

Please review the Fishbanks Game Manual for Professor Meadows' second lecture on Thursday July 23. Hard copies will be available that day.
* [[Media:FB_Role.doc | Fishbanks Game Manual]]

==Chuck Kutscher==

Please read the appendix and "Overview and Summary of the Studies" from the ASES "Tackling Climate Change" report as well as the coal phaseout paper and the column on Concentrating Solar Power.
* [[Media:Tackling Climate Change.pdf | Tackling Climate Change in the U.S.]]
*[[Media:Coal Phaseout 2030.pdf | Coal Phaseout Paper]]
*[[Media:SOLAR TODAY Column-CSP.pdf | CSP Article]]
For those interested, here is the paper by Jim Hansen and his colleagues arguing that atmospheric CO2 must be brought below 350 ppm:
*[[Media:Hansen 350 Target Paper.pdf | Hansen 350 target paper]]
For those interested, student posters from my "Climate Change Solutions" class are on the web at: http://picasaweb.google.com/ChuckGCO/ClimateChangeSolutionsClassPosters122608517PM?pli=1#

==Participant-Suggested Readings==

===Buildings===

Stewart Brand's [http://www.amazon.com/How-Buildings-Learn-Happens-Theyre/dp/0140139966 How Buildings Learn: What Happens After they are Built] offers some clues about how we might conceptualize and approach a reworking of building energy use. - Sam

===Business===

Michael Schuman's [http://www.amazon.com/Small-Mart-Revolution-Businesses-Beating-Competition/dp/1576753867 The Small-Mart Revolution: How Local Businesses Are Beating the Global Competition] discusses the virtues of robust local economies. - Sam

===Climate Change===
David Archer at the University of Chicago wrote a great primer on climate change science, [http://geodoc.uchicago.edu/ Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast]. --Danny

George Monbiot, a journalist from the UK wrote a well referenced book looking at the plausibility of 90% CO2 reduction by 2030 called [http://www.turnuptheheat.org/?page_id=7 Heat: How To Stop the Planet Burning]. It's a sector by sector look at mitigation opportunities. [http://www.amazon.com/Heat-How-Stop-Planet-Burning/dp/0896087875 Amazon]. - Sam

Spencer Weart's [http://www.aip.org/history/climate/ The Discovery of Global Warming] is a great history of the development of the science of climate change. [http://www.amazon.com/Discovery-expanded-Histories-Technology-Medicine/dp/067403189X Amazon]. - Sam

Ross Gelbspan's [http://www.amazon.com/Boiling-Point-Politicians-Journalists-Crisis/dp/0465027628 Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists, and Activists Have Fueled a Climate Crisis--And What We Can Do to Avert Disaster] reports on the role of the media and special interests in getting the climate story wrong. It is his follow up to [http://www.amazon.com/Heat-Climate-Crisis-Cover-up-Prescription/dp/0738200255 The Heat Is On], which documents the energy industry disinformation campaign. - Sam

===Consumption===

Willaim Rathje and Cullen Murphy's [http://www.amazon.com/Rubbish-Archaeology-Garbage-William-Rathje/dp/0816521433 Rubbish: The Archaeology of Garbage] takes an empirical look at how and what we consume. Hint: we lie on surveys! - Sam

[http://www.storyofstuff.com/ The Story of Stuff] by Annie Leonard is a great web video on the global impacts of consumption. - Sam

===Geology & Land Use===
Wes Jackson's [http://www.amazon.com/New-Roots-Agriculture-Farming-Ranching/dp/0803275625 New Roots for Agriculture] describes a potentially new approach to agriculture based on perennial plants that restores rather than destroys habitat. - Sam

===Ecology===
Alan Weisman's [http://www.amazon.com/World-Without-Us-Alan-Weisman/dp/B002BWQ4XW The World Without Us] is a sort of speculative disaster ecology book that looks at what would happen to the world if we suddenly disappeared. Neither morbid nor depressing. - Sam

===Economics===

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Is_Beautiful Small is Beautiful] by E.F. Shumacher and its supplemental essay [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Guide_for_the_Perplexed A Guide for the Perplexed]. Very much in the philosophical spectrum of ecology and economics. A bit dated perhaps, but the material is still very relevant to much of the movement today. -[[JP]]

Herman Daley, a world bank economist turned Zero Growth advocate has written several books on the subject. For example, [http://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Growth-Economics-Sustainable-Development/dp/0807047090 Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development]. He's not a page turning author, but the ideas and criticisms are fascinating. - Sam

===Energy Industry===

Daniel Yergin's classic [http://www.amazon.com/Prize-Epic-Quest-Money-Power/dp/1439110123 The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil Money and Power] on the origin and development of the oil industry. - Sam

===Oceans===

James Hamilton-Paterson's [http://www.amazon.com/Seven-Tenths-James-Hamilton-Paterson/dp/1933372699 Seven Tenths: The Sea and Its Thresholds] is a collection of beautifully written essays about the oceans. - Sam

===Population===

"The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100: Europe, America, and the Third World" - Robert William Fogel

===Technology & Technological Change===

Gil Masters wrote an excellent textbook, [http://www.amazon.com/Renewable-Efficient-Electric-Power-Systems/dp/0471280607 Renewable and Efficient Electric Power Systems]. The book covers wind, solar PV, and energy efficiency technology analysis comprehensively. Gil's book is great for professional engineers, but also incredibly approachable, requiring no background beyond high school math. Among other things, it gives the tools needed to design home power systems. --Danny

Alexandra Von Meier has a primer on the electricity sector, [http://www.amazon.com/Electric-Power-Systems-Introduction-Engineering/dp/0471178594 Electric Power Systems: A Conceptual Introduction]. Written for the general post-college audience, it's a must-have for anyone who wants to understand the electricity industry. --Danny

J. R. McNeill's [http://www.amazon.com/Something-New-Under-Environmental-Twentieth-Century/dp/0393321835 Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the 20th Century World] is a history book that argues that environmental change will come to be seen as the 20th centuries most important event. - Sam

===Transportation===

"Two Billions Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability" - Daniel Sperling, Deborah Gordon

"Transportation in a Climate-Constrained World" - Andreas Schafer, John B. Heywood, Henry D. Jacoby, Ian A. Waitz

===Water===

Vandana Shiva is an Indian Physicist turned activist. Her book [http://www.amazon.com/Water-Wars-Privatization-Pollution-Profit/dp/089608650X Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit] reminds us that for many people on earth, access to water is a most urgent concern. Conflicts over water are already changing people's lives. - Sam

Summer School on Global Sustainability-Readings

2009-07-27T20:54:28Z

Sborgeson: /* Participant-Suggested Readings */

{{Summer School on Global Sustainability}}

'''Please note that the [[Summer School on Global Sustainability-Lectures]] page may have additional assignments.

==Preface==
The Global Sustainainability Summer School co-directors have recommended the following speech by President Barack Obama as a preface to your time at the program.

* [http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/04/27/obama_speech_academy_of_sciences_transcript_96221.html President Obama's speech to the National Academy of Sciences, 4 April, 2009.]

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5-MgZD5IMc Video]

==Partha Dasgupta==

The following papers should be read as supplemental to those lectures given, and for the program at large:

* [[Media:Commons.pdf|Common Property Resources: Economic Analysis]]
* [[Media:MatterOfTrust.pdf | A Matter of Trust: Social Capital and Economic Development]]
* [[Media:PlaceOfNature.pdf | The Place of Nature in Economic Development]]

==Arnulf Grübler==

* [[Media:Industrialization1.pdf | Industrialization as a Historical Phenomenon]]
* [[Media:TimeForChangePaper.pdf | Time for Change: On the Patterns of Diffusion of Innovation]]

==Dennis Meadows==

Please review the Fishbanks Game Manual for Professor Meadows' second lecture on Thursday July 23. Hard copies will be available that day.
* [[Media:FB_Role.doc | Fishbanks Game Manual]]

==Chuck Kutscher==

Please read the appendix and "Overview and Summary of the Studies" from the ASES "Tackling Climate Change" report as well as the coal phaseout paper and the column on Concentrating Solar Power.
* [[Media:Tackling Climate Change.pdf | Tackling Climate Change in the U.S.]]
*[[Media:Coal Phaseout 2030.pdf | Coal Phaseout Paper]]
*[[Media:SOLAR TODAY Column-CSP.pdf | CSP Article]]
For those interested, here is the paper by Jim Hansen and his colleagues arguing that atmospheric CO2 must be brought below 350 ppm:
*[[Media:Hansen 350 Target Paper.pdf | Hansen 350 target paper]]
For those interested, student posters from my "Climate Change Solutions" class are on the web at: http://picasaweb.google.com/ChuckGCO/ClimateChangeSolutionsClassPosters122608517PM?pli=1#

==Participant-Suggested Readings==

Stewart Brand's [http://www.amazon.com/How-Buildings-Learn-Happens-Theyre/dp/0140139966 How Buildings Learn: What Happens After they are Built] offers some clues about how we might conceptualize and approach a reworking of building energy use. - Sam

Daniel Yergin's classic [http://www.amazon.com/Prize-Epic-Quest-Money-Power/dp/1439110123 The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil Money and Power] on the origin and development of the oil industry. - Sam

Willaim Rathje and Cullen Murphy's [http://www.amazon.com/Rubbish-Archaeology-Garbage-William-Rathje/dp/0816521433 Rubbish: The Archaeology of Garbage] takes an empirical look at how and what we consume. Hint: we lie on surveys! - Sam

James Hamilton-Paterson's [http://www.amazon.com/Seven-Tenths-James-Hamilton-Paterson/dp/1933372699 Seven Tenths: The Sea and Its Thresholds] is a collection of beautifully written essays about the oceans. - Sam

Michael Schuman's [http://www.amazon.com/Small-Mart-Revolution-Businesses-Beating-Competition/dp/1576753867 The Small-Mart Revolution: How Local Businesses Are Beating the Global Competition] discusses the virtues of robust local economies. - Sam

J. R. McNeill's [http://www.amazon.com/Something-New-Under-Environmental-Twentieth-Century/dp/0393321835 Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the 20th Century World] is a history book that argues that environmental change will come to be seen as the 20th centuries most important event. - Sam

Vandana Shiva is an Indian Physicist turned activist. Her book [http://www.amazon.com/Water-Wars-Privatization-Pollution-Profit/dp/089608650X Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit] reminds us that for many people on earth, access to water is a most urgent concern. Conflicts over water are already changing people's lives. - Sam

Herman Daley, a world bank economist turned Zero Growth advocate has written several books on the subject. For example, [http://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Growth-Economics-Sustainable-Development/dp/0807047090 Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development]. He's not a page turning author, but the ideas and criticisms are fascinating. - Sam

Ross Gelbspan's [http://www.amazon.com/Boiling-Point-Politicians-Journalists-Crisis/dp/0465027628 Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists, and Activists Have Fueled a Climate Crisis--And What We Can Do to Avert Disaster] reports on the role of the media and special interests in getting the climate story wrong. It is his follow up to [http://www.amazon.com/Heat-Climate-Crisis-Cover-up-Prescription/dp/0738200255 The Heat Is On], which documents the energy industry disinformation campaign. - Sam
===Business===

===Climate Change===
David Archer at the University of Chicago wrote a great primer on climate change science, [http://geodoc.uchicago.edu/ Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast]. --Danny

George Monbiot, a journalist from the UK wrote a well referenced book looking at the plausibility of 90% CO2 reduction by 2030 called [http://www.turnuptheheat.org/?page_id=7 Heat: How To Stop the Planet Burning]. It's a sector by sector look at mitigation opportunities. [http://www.amazon.com/Heat-How-Stop-Planet-Burning/dp/0896087875 Amazon]. - Sam

Spencer Weart's [http://www.aip.org/history/climate/ The Discovery of Global Warming] is a great history of the development of the science of climate change. [http://www.amazon.com/Discovery-expanded-Histories-Technology-Medicine/dp/067403189X Amazon]. - Sam

===Geology & Land Use===
Wes Jackson's [http://www.amazon.com/New-Roots-Agriculture-Farming-Ranching/dp/0803275625 New Roots for Agriculture] describes a potentially new approach to agriculture based on perennial plants that restores rather than destroys habitat. - Sam

===Ecology===
Alan Weisman's [http://www.amazon.com/World-Without-Us-Alan-Weisman/dp/B002BWQ4XW The World Without Us] is a sort of speculative disaster ecology book that looks at what would happen to the world if we suddenly disappeared. Neither morbid nor depressing. - Sam

===Economics===

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Is_Beautiful Small is Beautiful] by E.F. Shumacher and its supplemental essay [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Guide_for_the_Perplexed A Guide for the Perplexed]. Very much in the philosophical spectrum of ecology and economics. A bit dated perhaps, but the material is still very relevant to much of the movement today. -[[JP]]

===Population===

"The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100: Europe, America, and the Third World" - Robert William Fogel

===Technology & Technological Change===

Gil Masters wrote an excellent textbook, [http://www.amazon.com/Renewable-Efficient-Electric-Power-Systems/dp/0471280607 Renewable and Efficient Electric Power Systems]. The book covers wind, solar PV, and energy efficiency technology analysis comprehensively. Gil's book is great for professional engineers, but also incredibly approachable, requiring no background beyond high school math. Among other things, it gives the tools needed to design home power systems. --Danny

Alexandra Von Meier has a primer on the electricity sector, [http://www.amazon.com/Electric-Power-Systems-Introduction-Engineering/dp/0471178594 Electric Power Systems: A Conceptual Introduction]. Written for the general post-college audience, it's a must-have for anyone who wants to understand the electricity industry. --Danny

===Transportation===

"Two Billions Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability" - Daniel Sperling, Deborah Gordon

"Transportation in a Climate-Constrained World" - Andreas Schafer, John B. Heywood, Henry D. Jacoby, Ian A. Waitz

Summer School on Global Sustainability-Readings

2009-07-27T20:19:40Z

Sborgeson: /* Climate Change */

Summer School on Global Sustainability-Readings

2009-07-27T20:04:02Z

Sborgeson: /* Climate Change */

Summer School on Global Sustainability-Projects & Working Groups

2009-07-24T17:09:43Z

Sborgeson: /* RUSSELL & GRÜBLER: Bamutaze, Borgeson, Engler, Ona, Pasqualini, Zellner */

{{Summer School on Global Sustainability}}

==GROUP ASSIGNMENTS==
ENGLAND & NAKICENOVIC: Bush, Cullenward, Frisch, Nguyen, Nkem, Robinson 
===RUSSELL & GRÜBLER: Bamutaze, Borgeson, Engler, Ona, Pasqualini, Zellner===
[[Media:Russel_summary.doc]] Here is the summary of Joellen Russel's climate modeling talks.

===EDENHOFER & PAUL: Bottrill, Brelsford, Doshi, Geddes, Gong, Zaks===
===DASGUPTA & LOVINS: Clewlow, Dangerman, Hunt von Herbing, Kane, Sammeth, Wolf===
===HARGADON & MEADOWS: Gourdji, G. Jones, McInnis, Morgan, Mueller===
===RUBBIA & KUTSCHER: Gonzales, Hagerman, A. Jones, Krakauer, LaCerva, Lacroix===

==Participation==
Active, assertive participation by students is an intrinsic part of this event. Attendance at all program sessions is mandatory. Participants have been divided into six groups; each group designed to be as topically and geographically diverse as possible. Chairperson and rapporteur roles may rotate within each group.

==Group Tasks==
Groups have several tasks. One function is to discuss each day’s lectures among themselves and to be prepared to actively participate in the group discussion sessions each day. In addition, each group will be tasked to write a summary of the main points of the two lecturers, one from the first week and one from the second week. Responsibilities may be divided (that is, each of the six students might be responsible for producing a lecture transcription, editing duties could be divided, etc). The lecture summaries should include comments by the group on the broader implications of the lectures, critical analysis of the research area covered, and resonance to other presentations. Each speaker will be available to meet with the groups covering his/her lectures. This material may be edited and produced in book form.

==Research Agenda==
Additionally, each group will be asked to produce a research agenda as a product of the school. This would not be limited to the lectures each group covered, but rather focus on the entire two-week agenda and identify synergies, areas of disagreement, and gaps in our knowledge that can be resolved by future research. The final day of the school will include a plenary session during which each group’s rapporteur presents the research agenda. Finally, we will draw on these agendas to produce an open letter to President Obama or Science Advisor John Holdren.

Summer School on Global Sustainability-Projects & Working Groups

2009-07-24T17:09:30Z

Sborgeson: /* RUSSELL & GRÜBLER: Bamutaze, Borgeson, Engler, Ona, Pasqualini, Zellner */

{{Summer School on Global Sustainability}}

==GROUP ASSIGNMENTS==
ENGLAND & NAKICENOVIC: Bush, Cullenward, Frisch, Nguyen, Nkem, Robinson 
===RUSSELL & GRÜBLER: Bamutaze, Borgeson, Engler, Ona, Pasqualini, Zellner===
[Media:Russel_summary.doc] Here is the summary of Joellen Russel's climate modeling talks.

===EDENHOFER & PAUL: Bottrill, Brelsford, Doshi, Geddes, Gong, Zaks===
===DASGUPTA & LOVINS: Clewlow, Dangerman, Hunt von Herbing, Kane, Sammeth, Wolf===
===HARGADON & MEADOWS: Gourdji, G. Jones, McInnis, Morgan, Mueller===
===RUBBIA & KUTSCHER: Gonzales, Hagerman, A. Jones, Krakauer, LaCerva, Lacroix===

==Participation==
Active, assertive participation by students is an intrinsic part of this event. Attendance at all program sessions is mandatory. Participants have been divided into six groups; each group designed to be as topically and geographically diverse as possible. Chairperson and rapporteur roles may rotate within each group.

==Group Tasks==
Groups have several tasks. One function is to discuss each day’s lectures among themselves and to be prepared to actively participate in the group discussion sessions each day. In addition, each group will be tasked to write a summary of the main points of the two lecturers, one from the first week and one from the second week. Responsibilities may be divided (that is, each of the six students might be responsible for producing a lecture transcription, editing duties could be divided, etc). The lecture summaries should include comments by the group on the broader implications of the lectures, critical analysis of the research area covered, and resonance to other presentations. Each speaker will be available to meet with the groups covering his/her lectures. This material may be edited and produced in book form.

==Research Agenda==
Additionally, each group will be asked to produce a research agenda as a product of the school. This would not be limited to the lectures each group covered, but rather focus on the entire two-week agenda and identify synergies, areas of disagreement, and gaps in our knowledge that can be resolved by future research. The final day of the school will include a plenary session during which each group’s rapporteur presents the research agenda. Finally, we will draw on these agendas to produce an open letter to President Obama or Science Advisor John Holdren.

File:Russel summary.doc

2009-07-24T17:07:58Z

Sborgeson:

Summer School on Global Sustainability-Projects & Working Groups

2009-07-24T17:06:12Z

Sborgeson:

{{Summer School on Global Sustainability}}

==GROUP ASSIGNMENTS==
ENGLAND & NAKICENOVIC: Bush, Cullenward, Frisch, Nguyen, Nkem, Robinson 
===RUSSELL & GRÜBLER: Bamutaze, Borgeson, Engler, Ona, Pasqualini, Zellner===
EDENHOFER & PAUL: Bottrill, Brelsford, Doshi, Geddes, Gong, Zaks 
DASGUPTA & LOVINS: Clewlow, Dangerman, Hunt von Herbing, Kane, Sammeth, Wolf 
HARGADON & MEADOWS: Gourdji, G. Jones, McInnis, Morgan, Mueller 
RUBBIA & KUTSCHER: Gonzales, Hagerman, A. Jones, Krakauer, LaCerva, Lacroix 

==Participation==
Active, assertive participation by students is an intrinsic part of this event. Attendance at all program sessions is mandatory. Participants have been divided into six groups; each group designed to be as topically and geographically diverse as possible. Chairperson and rapporteur roles may rotate within each group.

==Group Tasks==
Groups have several tasks. One function is to discuss each day’s lectures among themselves and to be prepared to actively participate in the group discussion sessions each day. In addition, each group will be tasked to write a summary of the main points of the two lecturers, one from the first week and one from the second week. Responsibilities may be divided (that is, each of the six students might be responsible for producing a lecture transcription, editing duties could be divided, etc). The lecture summaries should include comments by the group on the broader implications of the lectures, critical analysis of the research area covered, and resonance to other presentations. Each speaker will be available to meet with the groups covering his/her lectures. This material may be edited and produced in book form.

==Research Agenda==
Additionally, each group will be asked to produce a research agenda as a product of the school. This would not be limited to the lectures each group covered, but rather focus on the entire two-week agenda and identify synergies, areas of disagreement, and gaps in our knowledge that can be resolved by future research. The final day of the school will include a plenary session during which each group’s rapporteur presents the research agenda. Finally, we will draw on these agendas to produce an open letter to President Obama or Science Advisor John Holdren.

Summer School on Global Sustainability-Working Group Wiki Page

2009-07-24T15:10:26Z

Sborgeson:

Please refer to the [http://www.santafe.edu/events/workshops/index.php/CSSS_2009_Santa_Fe-Projects_%26_Working_Groups Complex Systems Summer School] groups page to get an idea of self organization and working groups.

=='''Cluster Research Ideas'''==

===Ecosystem Services, Biodiversity, Food and Ag===

1) How can the global food and land-use systems decrease their negative environmental impact and adapt to climate change while mitigating its effects?

2) Expanding and '''standardizing''' measurement, monitoring, and verification of global ecosystem services.

3) How can we sustainably use ocean and freshwater systems (drinking water, fishing, aquaculture, recreation, and biodiversity)?

===Developing World===

4) How to foster innovation/knowledge sharing within the developing world in regards to improving livelihoods & ensuring sustainability? (e.g. Indeigenous Knowledge, solutions appropriate for agricultural lifestyles)?

5) How would technological transfer from developed to developing nations (or vice versa) for climate change adaptation and mitigation actually occur? (e.g. acocuntability, $$, open source software, govt to govt, private to private, incentives for innovation)

6) How do we get to an equitable distribution of responsibility for climate change mitigation & adaptation around the globe? (e.g. emission reduction burdens, adaptation funds, ranking vulnerability)

===Policy/Regulatory Environment===

7) How can complexity science support streamlining development and adoption of technologies and practices?

8) How to effectively translate research into policy, practice and intervention (with diverse collaborators, partnerships, initiatives, etc.)

9) How do we transform policies affecting global sustainability (path dependence, complex adaptive policy, integration, scalability, etc.)

10) What types of policies can promote sustainability and how to meaningfully enforce them? (individual initiatives, systems approaches, international agreements)

===Decision Sciences===

11) How do we understand/how do we change/what are
the rules of the game, especially as applied to:
economic growth theory
agricultural/eco systems
social systems?

12) What drives societal transformation (in terms of values, norms, practices, and livelihoods strategies) & how can complex system science help to productively shed light on those processes?

===Climate Change===

13) How can we better quantify uncertainty when we are in uncharted territory of the climate system (where change is happening faster and involving feedbacks we don't yet understand?

14) How do we develop useful integrated models? Are there feedback mechanisms that we don't understand?

15) How does climate change affect uncertainties and challenges in modeling de-carbonization & the energy system?

===Human Well-Being, Sociology, Advocacy===

16) How can we best change consumption and political behaviors?

17) How can population growth be part of the dialogue?

18) What techniques & strategies from past social movements can be used to initiate and sustain new social movements?

19) How do cultural conceptions of nature influence sustainability? What kind of educational strategies are needed to foster values that facilitate sustainability?

20) How can we anticipate & mitigate resource-based human conflicts?

===Mitigation and Adaptation===

21) What technologies are still needed to evaluate environmental impacts?

22) What is our vision for a sustainable future?

23) Which low-carbon or carbon neutral technologies or practices are needed, or need to be developed for a sustainable future?

===Complexity===

24) To what degree does heterogeneity facilitate the adoption & spread of sustainable technologies or practices?

25) Are entropy and sustainability opposing or supporting forces? Under what conditions?

26) Can ideas from complexity be used to improve integrated design practices for new technology (and retrofit technology?)

27) What methods can be used and developed to quantify interactions between previously developed models of human, physical, and economic systems?

===Mitigation and Adaptation Continued===

28) How will we address projected phosphorus shortages? (2020-2050)

29) How are adaptation ideas distributed or shared? (Technology/Idea Transfer)

30) Can localization become an adaptive strategy?

31) What technologies or tools are still needed to evaluate environmental impacts?

===Proposals for Combination===

#2 and 21
#7 and 26 and 4
#12 and 18
#15 and 23 and 6
#8 and 9 and 16
#1 and 3
#1 and 27
#12 16 and 19

===Op-Ed Paragraphs===

====Ecosystem Services====

While the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere will have catastrophic consequences if not reversed, when planning for future sustainability, it is imperative to better understand ecosystems and the goods and services they provide. A globally integrated system to measure, monitor, model, verify and communicate the current state of ecosystem services and how they respond to natural and anthropogenic changes is needed. In order to identify patterns and processes that are emergent at various scales, a wide range of data are needed across various spatial and temporal scales. Collecting and analyzing the flows of ecosystem services needs to be used as an input to a broad range of policies to ensure the future availability of these important services. This needs to be coupled to the appropriate distillation of data and trends for consumption by the general public. Systems that humans depend on for the continuous delivery of goods and services relating to food, water, climate and health are highlighted in the proposal as important agenda items for future research relating to ecosystem services and human well-being.

====Modeling and Complexity Science Approaches to Sustainability (With Particular Application to Climate Change)====

Given the urgency of addressing the climate change problem, there is a need for new tools to model and understand the most effective pathways to de-carbonization, and to better quantify uncertainty, non-linear behavior, and feedback-mechanisms that are predicted both in physical climate models and those that incorporate interactions between the human, biological, and physical climate systems. These tools are of further use for other areas of broader sustainability research. The ability to better quantify interactions between previously developed models of human, technological, and economic systems with those of natural earth systems are needed to evaluate environmental impacts. We believe that human-biology-climate interactions are a critical area of climate science modeling, because these feedbacks either mitigate warming or amplify the consequences of warming. Furthermore, such interactions are currently the least understood or directly evaluated. Just as climate models depend on models of emissions, emissions models depend on an underlying model of the collective behavior of humans via a range of different scenarios of human population growth, development, technological change, and trade coupled by a general equilibrium model framework. We raise the question whether the underlying models of human interaction used in the context of energy and climate modeling are useful tools, given that they contain several weaknesses, namely (1) a lack of interaction with the climate system and the Earth's biology, which itself interacts with the climate system (2) ignorance of the presence and interactions of particular actors such as individual firms, utilities, and governments that provide mechanism to the collective behavior (3) an inability to explore how different desired emissions futures might come about, (4) the possibility of fundamental and rapid changes in social attitudes and behaviors. We believe agent-based models, and other models such as cellular automata that could capture human-biology-climate feedbacks, are particularly useful because they capture motivations of individual agents rather than those of collections of agents. Moreover, complex systems analysis allows us to better quantify uncertainty, non-linear behavior, tipping points, and feedback-mechanisms that are not apparent in the current integrated models and have the potential to create extreme environmental impacts.

====Human Well-Being, Sociology, Advocacy====

Many changes to reduce personal consumption come at zero up-front cost and will tend to save money, increase free time, improve health (extend life?), increase human interaction, secure a brighter future, create better neighbors, and provide sense of meaning and collective action while at the same time reducing global impacts and the costs of mitigation programs (CO2 prices), through rapidly reduced emissions.

Behavioral suggestions:
1) reduce meat consumption (loose weight, improve health, reduce impacts)
2) give gifts that are not things or make them yourself (more meaningful, reduced impacts, reduced unwanted stuff, improve quality of life and strengthen connections)
3) use your influence at work (organizations often have more power than individuals)

Leaders need to clearly promote a socially positive, lower consumption vision of the future and challenge citizens to do their part for their nation and the world. This goal can give us a collective sense of meaning (see moon shot, war on terror, cold war, WWII, Katrina, dust bowl, etc.) in pursuit of a positive shared goal while reconfirming the greatness and leadership of our nation.

==Project Groups==
[http://www.santafe.edu/events/workshops/index.php/CSSS_2009_Santa_Fe-Modeling-Cluster Modeling Cluster (Q 13-14-30-27)]

[http://www.santafe.edu/events/workshops/index.php/CSSS_2009_Santa_Fe-Complexity-Science Complexity Approaches (Q 7-24-25-26)]

The Once and Future Battles of Thor and the Midgard Serpent, or: The Westerlies and the Antarctic Circumpolar Current in Global Climate

2009-07-17T03:03:51Z

Sborgeson:

{{Summer School on Global Sustainability}}
Dominated by the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), the vast Southern Ocean can influence large-scale surface climate features on various time scales. Its climatic relevance stems in part from it being the region where most of the transformation of the World Ocean’s water masses occurs. In climate change experiments that simulate greenhouse gas–induced warming and ozone depletion, the response of the Southern Ocean circulation patterns to the change in the Westerlies make it a region where much of the future oceanic heat storage takes place, though the magnitude of that heat storage is one of the larger sources of uncertainty associated with the transient climate response in such model projections. These links are explored here in a climate model context by analyzing a suite of experiments produced in support of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fourth Assessment Report. The influence of the predicted change in Southern Ocean circulation over the rate of global atmospheric warming will be examined, as well as potential impacts on polar and global marine ecosystems.

Talk Summary (from student group)

This talk made the case for the fundamental importance of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) as a major driver of the global climate. Powered by the Southern Hemisphere Westerly winds, this current circumnavigates the globe from west to east uninterrupted by land across the range of latitudes that pass through Drake’s Passage (the narrowest part of the southern ocean). The current is so strong that it reaches the ocean floor at depths of up to 5000 meters and sustains a flow rate of 145 million m3/second. The depth and flow are unprecedented elsewhere on earth. In addition to this direct forcing, the winds (deflected by the coriolis “force”) also drive a steady flow of surface water northward away from the pole in all directions around Antarctica. Deep ocean water is drawn to the surface from as much as 2,000m below the surface to replace the northward flowing water (often surfacing for the first time after as long as 800 years). Deep ocean water is rich in carbon of biological origin, but current and future atmospheric concentrations of CO2 create a gradient sufficient to drive further absorption. The cold deep water also absorbs large amounts of heat from the atmosphere after it surfaces. After a fairly brief appearance, the heat and CO2 laden water circulates back into the deep ocean, effectively sequestering atmospheric CO2 and heat in the ocean.

These dynamics are strongly suggested by observational data and are present in the best of the most recent generation of climate models, but there is limited agreement among models on the exact scale of these effects, largely due to model sensitivities to the predicted position of the Westerlies. Because the dynamics in the southern ocean have the potential to place a substantial drag on the climate system, thus decreasing the climate sensitivity to GHG forcing, developing a clear understanding of the dynamics related to the ACC is an important research goal for climate modelers. In the meantime, the interaction between the Southern Hemisphere Westerly winds and the Antarctic Circumpolar Current has already been demonstrated as a likely explanation of the coupling of CO2 and temperature in the paleo-climate record. The system passes three distinct tests that the paleo record presents: coincident CO2 and temperature changes, Antarctic temperatures that rise several hundred years before CO2 at the end of glacial periods, and the deep Atlantic carrying a large burden of biotic CO2.

The Once and Future Battles of Thor and the Midgard Serpent, or: The Westerlies and the Antarctic Circumpolar Current in Global Climate

2009-07-17T03:03:21Z

Sborgeson:

{{Summer School on Global Sustainability}}
Dominated by the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), the vast Southern Ocean can influence large-scale surface climate features on various time scales. Its climatic relevance stems in part from it being the region where most of the transformation of the World Ocean’s water masses occurs. In climate change experiments that simulate greenhouse gas–induced warming and ozone depletion, the response of the Southern Ocean circulation patterns to the change in the Westerlies make it a region where much of the future oceanic heat storage takes place, though the magnitude of that heat storage is one of the larger sources of uncertainty associated with the transient climate response in such model projections. These links are explored here in a climate model context by analyzing a suite of experiments produced in support of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fourth Assessment Report. The influence of the predicted change in Southern Ocean circulation over the rate of global atmospheric warming will be examined, as well as potential impacts on polar and global marine ecosystems.

Talk Summary (from student group)

This talk made the case for the fundamental importance of the Antartic Circumpolar Current (ACC) as a major driver of the global climate. Powered by the Southern Hemisphere Westerly winds, this current circumnavigates the globe from west to east uninterrupted by land across the range of latitudes that pass through Drake’s Passage (the narrowest part of the southern ocean). The current is so strong that it reaches the ocean floor at depths of up to 5000 meters and sustains a flow rate of 145 million m3/second. The depth and flow are unprecedented elsewhere on earth. In addition to this direct forcing, the winds (deflected by the coriolis “force”) also drive a steady flow of surface water northward away from the pole in all directions around Antartica. Deep ocean water is drawn to the surface from as much as 2,000m below the surface to replace the northward flowing water (often surfacing for the first time after as long as 800 years). Deep ocean water is rich in carbon of biological origin, but current and future atmospheric concentrations of CO2 create a gradient sufficient to drive further absorption. The cold deep water also absorbs large amounts of heat from the atmosphere after it surfaces. After a fairly brief appearance, the heat and CO2 laden water circulates back into the deep ocean, effectively sequestering atmospheric CO2 and heat in the ocean.

These dynamics are strongly suggested by observational data and are present in the best of the most recent generation of climate models, but there is limited agreement among models on the exact scale of these effects, largely due to model sensitivities to the predicted position of the Westerlies. Because the dynamics in the southern ocean have the potential to place a substantial drag on the climate system, thus decreasing the climate sensitivity to GHG forcing, developing a clear understanding of the dynamics related to the ACC is an important research goal for climate modelers. In the meantime, the interaction between the Southern Hemisphere Westerly winds and the Antartic Circumpolar Current has already been demonstrated as a likely explanation of the coupling of CO2 and temperature in the paleo-climate record. The system passes three distinct tests that the paleo record presents: coincident CO2 and temperature changes, Antartic temperatures that rise several hundred years before CO2 at the end of glacial periods, and the deep Atlantic carrying a large burden of biotic CO2.

The Once and Future Battles of Thor and the Midgard Serpent, or: The Westerlies and the Antarctic Circumpolar Current in Global Climate

2009-07-17T03:02:52Z

Sborgeson:

{{Summer School on Global Sustainability}}
Dominated by the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), the vast Southern Ocean can influence large-scale surface climate features on various time scales. Its climatic relevance stems in part from it being the region where most of the transformation of the World Ocean’s water masses occurs. In climate change experiments that simulate greenhouse gas–induced warming and ozone depletion, the response of the Southern Ocean circulation patterns to the change in the Westerlies make it a region where much of the future oceanic heat storage takes place, though the magnitude of that heat storage is one of the larger sources of uncertainty associated with the transient climate response in such model projections. These links are explored here in a climate model context by analyzing a suite of experiments produced in support of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fourth Assessment Report. The influence of the predicted change in Southern Ocean circulation over the rate of global atmospheric warming will be examined, as well as potential impacts on polar and global marine ecosystems.

{{Talk Summary (from student group}}
This talk made the case for the fundamental importance of the Antartic Circumpolar Current (ACC) as a major driver of the global climate. Powered by the Southern Hemisphere Westerly winds, this current circumnavigates the globe from west to east uninterrupted by land across the range of latitudes that pass through Drake’s Passage (the narrowest part of the southern ocean). The current is so strong that it reaches the ocean floor at depths of up to 5000 meters and sustains a flow rate of 145 million m3/second. The depth and flow are unprecedented elsewhere on earth. In addition to this direct forcing, the winds (deflected by the coriolis “force”) also drive a steady flow of surface water northward away from the pole in all directions around Antartica. Deep ocean water is drawn to the surface from as much as 2,000m below the surface to replace the northward flowing water (often surfacing for the first time after as long as 800 years). Deep ocean water is rich in carbon of biological origin, but current and future atmospheric concentrations of CO2 create a gradient sufficient to drive further absorption. The cold deep water also absorbs large amounts of heat from the atmosphere after it surfaces. After a fairly brief appearance, the heat and CO2 laden water circulates back into the deep ocean, effectively sequestering atmospheric CO2 and heat in the ocean.

These dynamics are strongly suggested by observational data and are present in the best of the most recent generation of climate models, but there is limited agreement among models on the exact scale of these effects, largely due to model sensitivities to the predicted position of the Westerlies. Because the dynamics in the southern ocean have the potential to place a substantial drag on the climate system, thus decreasing the climate sensitivity to GHG forcing, developing a clear understanding of the dynamics related to the ACC is an important research goal for climate modelers. In the meantime, the interaction between the Southern Hemisphere Westerly winds and the Antartic Circumpolar Current has already been demonstrated as a likely explanation of the coupling of CO2 and temperature in the paleo-climate record. The system passes three distinct tests that the paleo record presents: coincident CO2 and temperature changes, Antartic temperatures that rise several hundred years before CO2 at the end of glacial periods, and the deep Atlantic carrying a large burden of biotic CO2.

Summer School on Global Sustainability-Blog

2009-07-16T20:35:25Z

Sborgeson: /* Thursday, July 16 */

{{Summer School on Global Sustainability}}

Post any observations, reactions, insights, links to interesting material, or open questions here. This is an informal page, so use it as you wish.

==Sunday, July 12==

==Monday, July 13==

Hi all,

Here are a few links to information on Ecological Economics and the work of Herman Daly (founder of the field). These themes came up today in group conversation, and I thought the following articles might be useful as additional background as we all ponder what sustainability might look like.

[http://growthmadness.org/2007/09/03/can-we-grow-our-way-to-an-environmentally-sustainable-world/ Can we grow our way to an environmentally sustainable world?]

[http://www.grist.org/article/bank The economic heresy of Herman Daly]

[http://www.eoearth.org/article/Herman_Daly_Festschrift~_Toward_a_sustainable_and_desirable_future~_a_30_year_collaboration_with_Herman_Daly Herman Daly Festschrift: Toward a sustainable and desirable future: a 30 year collaboration with Herman Daly]

And if you feel like getting political about it, there is always the [http://www.steadystate.org/ Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy (CASSE).]

Enjoy!

-Jenny

Hi All
FYI - there are a number of cool videos on ecological economics at the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics site: [http://www.uvm.edu/giee/?Page=videos.html&defaultmenu.html]
There is a free online course in ecological economics as well: [http://metacourses.org/ecologicaleconomics/]
They also have a listing of PDF's of articles that Gund fellows have contributed to that should be free to download: [http://www.uvm.edu/giee/?Page=publications.html&default_menu.html]
If you have questions about the Institute, its players or Ecological Economics, see Samir or Anthony - we are both based there.
Cheers
Anthony

==Tuesday, July 14==

==Wednesday, July 15==
Here are a couple of papers that I thought people might find interesting reading...

[http://www.sd-commission.org.uk/pages/redefining-prosperity.html Prosperity Without Growth?]
This a report by Professor Tim Jackson (my PhD supervisor) proposes twelve steps towards a sustainable economy and argues for a redefinition of "prosperity" in line with evidence about what contributes to people’s wellbeing.

[http://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/NR/rdonlyres/6E0B4E96-3ECA-427B-8D86-1C241D04AACC/0/climatepolicybackoncourse.pdf How to Get Climate Policy Back on Course]
The authors of this paper suggest a direct approach be taken to the decarbonization of the global energy system rather than the indirect approach of creating an international carbon market. Existing & known policy mechanisms should be used rather than setting up a carbon market that has great uncertainty for delivering the environmental goal of stabilising emissions. They argue it would be more effective to expend effort on making incremental progress based on what we know rather than trying to get international agreement on the timetables and targets, which is proving so challenging.

Ciao, Catherine

==Thursday, July 16==
For example, there is the oft-told story about Larry Shepp, a famous mathematician at Rutgers University. Dr. Shepp, when told that a piece of work he thought was his discovery actually duplicated another mathematician's breakthrough, replied: "Yes, but when I discovered it, it stayed discovered."

From "Pity the Scientist Who Discovers the Discovered"
NY Times February 5, 2006

James Balog - Arctic photography
http://www.extremeicesurvey.org/

==Friday, July 17==

==Saturday, July 18==

==Sunday, July 19==

==Monday, July 20==

==Tuesday, July 21==

==Wednesday, July 22==

==Thursday, July 23==

==Friday, July 24==

==Saturday, July 25==

Summer School on Global Sustainability-Blog

2009-07-16T15:42:25Z

Sborgeson: /* Thursday, July 16 */

{{Summer School on Global Sustainability}}

Post any observations, reactions, insights, links to interesting material, or open questions here. This is an informal page, so use it as you wish.

==Sunday, July 12==

==Monday, July 13==

Hi all,

Here are a few links to information on Ecological Economics and the work of Herman Daly (founder of the field). These themes came up today in group conversation, and I thought the following articles might be useful as additional background as we all ponder what sustainability might look like.

[http://growthmadness.org/2007/09/03/can-we-grow-our-way-to-an-environmentally-sustainable-world/ Can we grow our way to an environmentally sustainable world?]

[http://www.grist.org/article/bank The economic heresy of Herman Daly]

[http://www.eoearth.org/article/Herman_Daly_Festschrift~_Toward_a_sustainable_and_desirable_future~_a_30_year_collaboration_with_Herman_Daly Herman Daly Festschrift: Toward a sustainable and desirable future: a 30 year collaboration with Herman Daly]

And if you feel like getting political about it, there is always the [http://www.steadystate.org/ Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy (CASSE).]

Enjoy!

-Jenny

Hi All
FYI - there are a number of cool videos on ecological economics at the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics site: [http://www.uvm.edu/giee/?Page=videos.html&defaultmenu.html]
There is a free online course in ecological economics as well: [http://metacourses.org/ecologicaleconomics/]
They also have a listing of PDF's of articles that Gund fellows have contributed to that should be free to download: [http://www.uvm.edu/giee/?Page=publications.html&default_menu.html]
If you have questions about the Institute, its players or Ecological Economics, see Samir or Anthony - we are both based there.
Cheers
Anthony

==Tuesday, July 14==

==Wednesday, July 15==
Here are a couple of papers that I thought people might find interesting reading...

[http://www.sd-commission.org.uk/pages/redefining-prosperity.html Prosperity Without Growth?]
This a report by Professor Tim Jackson (my PhD supervisor) proposes twelve steps towards a sustainable economy and argues for a redefinition of "prosperity" in line with evidence about what contributes to people’s wellbeing.

[http://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/NR/rdonlyres/6E0B4E96-3ECA-427B-8D86-1C241D04AACC/0/climatepolicybackoncourse.pdf How to Get Climate Policy Back on Course]
The authors of this paper suggest a direct approach be taken to the decarbonization of the global energy system rather than the indirect approach of creating an international carbon market. Existing & known policy mechanisms should be used rather than setting up a carbon market that has great uncertainty for delivering the environmental goal of stabilising emissions. They argue it would be more effective to expend effort on making incremental progress based on what we know rather than trying to get international agreement on the timetables and targets, which is proving so challenging.

Ciao, Catherine

==Thursday, July 16==
For example, there is the oft-told story about Larry Shepp, a famous mathematician at Rutgers University. Dr. Shepp, when told that a piece of work he thought was his discovery actually duplicated another mathematician's breakthrough, replied: "Yes, but when I discovered it, it stayed discovered."

From "Pity the Scientist Who Discovers the Discovered"
NY Times February 5, 2006

==Friday, July 17==

==Saturday, July 18==

==Sunday, July 19==

==Monday, July 20==

==Tuesday, July 21==

==Wednesday, July 22==

==Thursday, July 23==

==Friday, July 24==

==Saturday, July 25==

Summer School on Global Sustainability-Blog

2009-07-15T20:19:30Z

Sborgeson: /* Wednesday, July 15 */

{{Summer School on Global Sustainability}}

Post any observations, reactions, insights, links to interesting material, or open questions here. This is an informal page, so use it as you wish.

==Sunday, July 12==

==Monday, July 13==

Hi all,

Here are a few links to information on Ecological Economics and the work of Herman Daly (founder of the field). These themes came up today in group conversation, and I thought the following articles might be useful as additional background as we all ponder what sustainability might look like.

[http://growthmadness.org/2007/09/03/can-we-grow-our-way-to-an-environmentally-sustainable-world/ Can we grow our way to an environmentally sustainable world?]

[http://www.grist.org/article/bank The economic heresy of Herman Daly]

[http://www.eoearth.org/article/Herman_Daly_Festschrift~_Toward_a_sustainable_and_desirable_future~_a_30_year_collaboration_with_Herman_Daly Herman Daly Festschrift: Toward a sustainable and desirable future: a 30 year collaboration with Herman Daly]

And if you feel like getting political about it, there is always the [http://www.steadystate.org/ Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy (CASSE).]

Enjoy!

-Jenny

Hi All
FYI - there are a number of cool videos on ecological economics at the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics site: [http://www.uvm.edu/giee/?Page=videos.html&defaultmenu.html]
There is a free online course in ecological economics as well: [http://metacourses.org/ecologicaleconomics/]
They also have a listing of PDF's of articles that Gund fellows have contributed to that should be free to download: [http://www.uvm.edu/giee/?Page=publications.html&default_menu.html]
If you have questions about the Institute, its players or Ecological Economics, see Samir or Anthony - we are both based there.
Cheers
Anthony

==Tuesday, July 14==

==Wednesday, July 15==
Here are a couple of papers that I thought people might find interesting reading...

[http://www.sd-commission.org.uk/pages/redefining-prosperity.html Prosperity Without Growth?]
This a report by Professor Tim Jackson (my PhD supervisor) proposes twelve steps towards a sustainable economy and argues for a redefinition of "prosperity" in line with evidence about what contributes to people’s wellbeing.

[http://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/NR/rdonlyres/6E0B4E96-3ECA-427B-8D86-1C241D04AACC/0/climatepolicybackoncourse.pdf How to Get Climate Policy Back on Course]
The authors of this paper suggest a direct approach be taken to the decarbonization of the global energy system rather than the indirect approach of creating an international carbon market. Existing & known policy mechanisms should be used rather than setting up a carbon market that has great uncertainty for delivering the environmental goal of stabilising emissions. They argue it would be more effective to expend effort on making incremental progress based on what we know rather than trying to get international agreement on the timetables and targets, which is proving so challenging.

Ciao, Catherine

==Thursday, July 16==

==Friday, July 17==

==Saturday, July 18==

==Sunday, July 19==

==Monday, July 20==

==Tuesday, July 21==

==Wednesday, July 22==

==Thursday, July 23==

==Friday, July 24==

==Saturday, July 25==

Summer School on Global Sustainability-Blog

2009-07-15T20:18:25Z

Sborgeson: /* Wednesday, July 15 */

{{Summer School on Global Sustainability}}

Post any observations, reactions, insights, links to interesting material, or open questions here. This is an informal page, so use it as you wish.

==Sunday, July 12==

==Monday, July 13==

Hi all,

Here are a few links to information on Ecological Economics and the work of Herman Daly (founder of the field). These themes came up today in group conversation, and I thought the following articles might be useful as additional background as we all ponder what sustainability might look like.

[http://growthmadness.org/2007/09/03/can-we-grow-our-way-to-an-environmentally-sustainable-world/ Can we grow our way to an environmentally sustainable world?]

[http://www.grist.org/article/bank The economic heresy of Herman Daly]

[http://www.eoearth.org/article/Herman_Daly_Festschrift~_Toward_a_sustainable_and_desirable_future~_a_30_year_collaboration_with_Herman_Daly Herman Daly Festschrift: Toward a sustainable and desirable future: a 30 year collaboration with Herman Daly]

And if you feel like getting political about it, there is always the [http://www.steadystate.org/ Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy (CASSE).]

Enjoy!

-Jenny

Hi All
FYI - there are a number of cool videos on ecological economics at the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics site: [http://www.uvm.edu/giee/?Page=videos.html&defaultmenu.html]
There is a free online course in ecological economics as well: [http://metacourses.org/ecologicaleconomics/]
They also have a listing of PDF's of articles that Gund fellows have contributed to that should be free to download: [http://www.uvm.edu/giee/?Page=publications.html&default_menu.html]
If you have questions about the Institute, its players or Ecological Economics, see Samir or Anthony - we are both based there.
Cheers
Anthony

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==Wednesday, July 15==
Here are a couple of papers that I thought people might find interesting reading...

[http://www.sd-commission.org.uk/pages/redefining-prosperity.html Prosperity Without Growth?]
This a report by Professor Tim Jackson (my PhD supervisor) proposes twelve steps towards a sustainable economy and argues for a redefinition of "prosperity" in line with evidence about what contributes to people’s wellbeing.

[http://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/NR/rdonlyres/6E0B4E96-3ECA-427B-8D86-1C241D04AACC/0/climatepolicybackoncourse.pdf/ How to Get Climate Policy Back on Course]
The authors of this paper suggest a direct approach be taken to the decarbonization of the global energy system rather than the indirect approach of creating an international carbon market. Existing & known policy mechanisms should be used rather than setting up a carbon market that has great uncertainty for delivering the environmental goal of stabilising emissions. They argue it would be more effective to expend effort on making incremental progress based on what we know rather than trying to get international agreement on the timetables and targets, which is proving so challenging.

Ciao, Catherine

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Climate Change - Overview, History, GHG's, Radiative Forcing

2009-07-13T18:42:01Z

Sborgeson:

{{Summer School on Global Sustainability}}
New Scientist's "Climate change: A guide for the perplexed" http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn11462

Sam Borgeson

2009-07-12T22:44:41Z

Sborgeson:

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Hi. I just finished M.S. degrees in Building Science and Energy and Resources at UC Berkeley and will be continuing as an Energy and Resource PhD student in the fall. I am excited by and interested in a wide array of topics related to re-working our energy systems, and facilitating the cultural and technological changes that can lead to a more just, equitable, and enduring society, so I'm thrilled to be among such a diverse group of gifted thinkers.

Through my current academic work, I hope to improve our understanding of the interface between built and natural environments and am interested in developing effective technical, economic, and policy tools to support the widespread delivery of low impact buildings. For My Building Science thesis was on computer models to assess the potential for climate-responsive, low energy cooling strategies in commercial buildings to displace conventional HVAC systems. This research was focuses on natural ventilation, radiant cooling, and the challenges associated with hybrid manual and automated building controls. Through the Energy and Resources Group and the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, I have been examining achievable reductions in emissions from buildings using models that track building features, floor space, and equipment as they change over time under varying technology and policy scenarios. I am also working as a Berkeley Institute of the Environment Fellow designing and coding an interactive web-based system to track and visualize campus resource use in support of mitigation goals, research, and education. I have a B.A. in Physics from Wesleyan University and in 2000, I co-founded Carbon Five, a San Francisco based software consulting firm. I left my position there to pursue my passion for reducing the environmental impacts of our built environment full time.

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2009-07-12T22:43:57Z

Sborgeson:

Sam Borgeson

2009-07-12T22:41:00Z

Sborgeson: New page: Hi. I just finished M.S. degrees in Building Science and Energy and Resources at UC Berkeley and will be continuing as an Energy and Resource PhD student in the fall. I am excited by and i...

Hi. I just finished M.S. degrees in Building Science and Energy and Resources at UC Berkeley and will be continuing as an Energy and Resource PhD student in the fall. I am excited by and interested in a wide array of topics related to re-working our energy systems, and facilitating the cultural and technological changes that can lead to a more just, equitable, and enduring society, so I'm thrilled to be among such a diverse group of gifted thinkers.

Through my current academic work, I hope to improve our understanding of the interface between built and natural environments and am interested in developing effective technical, economic, and policy tools to support the widespread delivery of low impact buildings. For My Building Science thesis was on computer models to assess the potential for climate-responsive, low energy cooling strategies in commercial buildings to displace conventional HVAC systems. This research was focuses on natural ventilation, radiant cooling, and the challenges associated with hybrid manual and automated building controls. Through the Energy and Resources Group and the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, I have been examining achievable reductions in emissions from buildings using models that track building features, floor space, and equipment as they change over time under varying technology and policy scenarios. I am also working as a Berkeley Institute of the Environment Fellow designing and coding an interactive web-based system to track and visualize campus resource use in support of mitigation goals, research, and education. I have a B.A. in Physics from Wesleyan University and in 2000, I co-founded Carbon Five, a San Francisco based software consulting firm. I left my position there to pursue my passion for reducing the environmental impacts of our built environment full time.