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Therese Hertel

2010-08-24T07:54:02Z

Tess:

I am Therese, 26 years old from Germany. Currently I am studying "Sustainable Resource Management" at the Technische Universität Munich in Freising. Choosing this Masters´s Programme was one of the best ideas in the last years. My fellow students are coming from all over the world and i love this international and intercultural atmosphere. After the Summer School I start my thesis. The Summer School therefore is also a possibilty for me to find an interesting topic for this.
I am looking forward to meet interesting people and have controversial discussions.

My contacts:

Mobile: +49 (0)176 22602766
eMail: therese.hertel@gmx.de
facebook: Tessi Tess
skype: wetterhexe23

GSSS 2010 Debate / Top-down vs. bottom-up decision making

2010-08-06T15:16:32Z

Tess: New page: Teams: Top-down: David, Robbie, Eli Bottom-up: Dana, John, Tess Debate notes of the "introduction statement" pro bottom-up Tess: "They argued that the topdown approach is the only meth...

Teams:
Top-down: David, Robbie, Eli
Bottom-up: Dana, John, Tess

Debate notes of the "introduction statement" pro bottom-up

Tess: "They argued that the topdown approach is the only method to achieve lasting climate change solutions on a global level for current problems, but thats not true: in order to achieve a sustainable change - people also have to be prepared on an individual level, therefore the bottom up approach has to be strengthend. Topdown decision implementation without agreement through the society leads to sabotage, mistrust and counter-actions and implementation will fail. So here are some first characteristics and examples of the bottom-up approach, that we think are important and we will show further examples while the discussion is developing.

1. Bottom-up approach is building the pool for creating change.
2. If people see the need for a change - understand the reasons for it - they will make it happen and even strive for greater changes and demand them. That`s the time when ideas emerge that later might lead to topdown strategies. For example: Solar panel on householdroofs in Germany -- idea developed in one community in Germany; municipality supported the installetion of individuel solar panels; now: it exists a nationwide subsidy-system supported by the german government for solar panels for individual households; plus a big industry developed and a lot of jobs were created - BUT without the initiative from below this great contribution of renewable energies as a permanent part of the energy supply in Germany wouldn`t exist.
3. Furthermore - bottom up approaches ensure the acceptance of extensive policies from above, IF people are convinced about the need of it. If they are, they stand up for it and are willing to participate even sacrifice something for the common goal.
4. For this reason: Delivering information and longtermn education and information distribution creates more possibilities for even more ideas that come from below and can transform into topdown strategies.
5. Another advantage of the bottom-up approach is the opportunity to create equal and improved living conditions in developing countries through action from among the people and with the help of ecological and climate friendly techniques and integration of renewable resources.

2010 Global Sustainability Summer School-Debates

2010-08-06T14:47:25Z

Tess: /* Main Topics */

{{GSSS 2010}}
Please use this page to organize debate teams and material.

==Disclaimer==

The purpose of this debate is to present reasoned arguments on two sides of a critical sustainable development issue. The views expressed are not necessarily those of the individuals making the arguments.
(Please feel free to edit)

Another stab at the disclaimer --The purpose of this debate is to present reasoned arguments on two sides of a complex sustainable development issue. The views expressed are not necessarily those of the individuals making the arguments. Instead, the individuals are evoking commonly cited arguments from various constituencies about the issue(s) at hand.

==Main Topics==

1. [[Nuclear Energy GSSS 2010 Debate|Nuclear Energy]]
 Nuclear energy production should not be a part of the US energy supply. 

2. [[Innovation vs Behavior GSSS 2010 Debate|Innovation vs Behavior]]
 The best way to achieve sustainability is through innovation, rather than changing consumption or behavior. 

3. [[Climate Change GSSS 2010 Debate|Climate Change]]
 
Climate change is the number one global problem that must be treated with priority.

 [[GSSS 2010 Debate / Top-down vs. bottom-up decision making]]

4. Top-down decision making is the most effective strategy by which to make our social and environmental systems more resilient.

==Suggested Topics Included:==

– What is most important problem to deal with: emphasis on climate change versus inequality versus ...?

– Cap and trade versus carbon tax?

– Impact * Population of People on Earth *Affluence * Technology (what to lower?)

∗ Lowering consumption/changing lifestyle/cultural values versus technology?

∗ How much emphasis on population control?

– Does religion/religious institutions helpful or hurtful towards achieving sustainability?

∗ Does nation-state system play a positive or negative role on achieving sustainability?

– Is education primary in changing behavior?

– Is UNFCCC most effective way to bring about international climate policy versus focusing on G20 or smaller?

∗ Is world government feasible?

– Should developing countries have binding targets? Should there be cost-mitigation or historical costs imposed?

– Is public sector too stupid or are scientist too dumb?

– Are there intrinsic limits to forecasting?

– Can we overcome global tragedy of the commons?

– Should biofuels play a larger role?

– Should GM play a larger role?

– Is electrification requried for a high standard or living?

– Can United States / developed countries become energy independent without a significant increase in nuclear energy?

– Is sustained growth conceivable?

– Bottom up or top down method for climate change?

– Globalization: good versus bad?

– Is growth the only possible goal for society?

– Is sustainability possible? Under the current democratic system?

– Should individual nations be allowed to support geoengineering projects that might have global implications?

– Is it possible to solve global problems?

– Do we prepare for a Plan B?

– Are market mechanisms essential?

– Decentralized versus centralized energy?

– Mitigation versus adaptation?

– Is it all futile?

– How much should we try to control?

– Is sustainability static?

– Is the world our garden? Is there wilderness?

– Do we need to give up flying?

– Should there be an allocation of ecological footprint?

– Is sustainability an idealology?

- Role of local food in a global economy?

2010 Global Sustainability Summer School-Debates

2010-08-06T14:47:07Z

Tess: /* Main Topics */

{{GSSS 2010}}
Please use this page to organize debate teams and material.

==Disclaimer==

The purpose of this debate is to present reasoned arguments on two sides of a critical sustainable development issue. The views expressed are not necessarily those of the individuals making the arguments.
(Please feel free to edit)

Another stab at the disclaimer --The purpose of this debate is to present reasoned arguments on two sides of a complex sustainable development issue. The views expressed are not necessarily those of the individuals making the arguments. Instead, the individuals are evoking commonly cited arguments from various constituencies about the issue(s) at hand.

==Main Topics==

1. [[Nuclear Energy GSSS 2010 Debate|Nuclear Energy]]
 Nuclear energy production should not be a part of the US energy supply. 

2. [[Innovation vs Behavior GSSS 2010 Debate|Innovation vs Behavior]]
 The best way to achieve sustainability is through innovation, rather than changing consumption or behavior. 

3. [[Climate Change GSSS 2010 Debate|Climate Change]]
 
Climate change is the number one global problem that must be treated with priority.

 [[GSSS 2010 Debate / Top-down vs. bottom-up decision making]]
4. Top-down decision making is the most effective strategy by which to make our social and environmental systems more resilient.

==Suggested Topics Included:==

– What is most important problem to deal with: emphasis on climate change versus inequality versus ...?

– Cap and trade versus carbon tax?

– Impact * Population of People on Earth *Affluence * Technology (what to lower?)

∗ Lowering consumption/changing lifestyle/cultural values versus technology?

∗ How much emphasis on population control?

– Does religion/religious institutions helpful or hurtful towards achieving sustainability?

∗ Does nation-state system play a positive or negative role on achieving sustainability?

– Is education primary in changing behavior?

– Is UNFCCC most effective way to bring about international climate policy versus focusing on G20 or smaller?

∗ Is world government feasible?

– Should developing countries have binding targets? Should there be cost-mitigation or historical costs imposed?

– Is public sector too stupid or are scientist too dumb?

– Are there intrinsic limits to forecasting?

– Can we overcome global tragedy of the commons?

– Should biofuels play a larger role?

– Should GM play a larger role?

– Is electrification requried for a high standard or living?

– Can United States / developed countries become energy independent without a significant increase in nuclear energy?

– Is sustained growth conceivable?

– Bottom up or top down method for climate change?

– Globalization: good versus bad?

– Is growth the only possible goal for society?

– Is sustainability possible? Under the current democratic system?

– Should individual nations be allowed to support geoengineering projects that might have global implications?

– Is it possible to solve global problems?

– Do we prepare for a Plan B?

– Are market mechanisms essential?

– Decentralized versus centralized energy?

– Mitigation versus adaptation?

– Is it all futile?

– How much should we try to control?

– Is sustainability static?

– Is the world our garden? Is there wilderness?

– Do we need to give up flying?

– Should there be an allocation of ecological footprint?

– Is sustainability an idealology?

- Role of local food in a global economy?

2010 Global Sustainability Summer School-Debates

2010-08-06T14:46:35Z

Tess: /* Main Topics */

{{GSSS 2010}}
Please use this page to organize debate teams and material.

==Disclaimer==

The purpose of this debate is to present reasoned arguments on two sides of a critical sustainable development issue. The views expressed are not necessarily those of the individuals making the arguments.
(Please feel free to edit)

Another stab at the disclaimer --The purpose of this debate is to present reasoned arguments on two sides of a complex sustainable development issue. The views expressed are not necessarily those of the individuals making the arguments. Instead, the individuals are evoking commonly cited arguments from various constituencies about the issue(s) at hand.

==Main Topics==

1. [[Nuclear Energy GSSS 2010 Debate|Nuclear Energy]]
 Nuclear energy production should not be a part of the US energy supply. 

2. [[Innovation vs Behavior GSSS 2010 Debate|Innovation vs Behavior]]
 The best way to achieve sustainability is through innovation, rather than changing consumption or behavior. 

3. [[Climate Change GSSS 2010 Debate|Climate Change]]
 
Climate change is the number one global problem that must be treated with priority.

 [[GSSS 2010 Debate / Top-down vs. bottom-up decision making]] 
4. Top-down decision making is the most effective strategy by which to make our social and environmental systems more resilient.

==Suggested Topics Included:==

– What is most important problem to deal with: emphasis on climate change versus inequality versus ...?

– Cap and trade versus carbon tax?

– Impact * Population of People on Earth *Affluence * Technology (what to lower?)

∗ Lowering consumption/changing lifestyle/cultural values versus technology?

∗ How much emphasis on population control?

– Does religion/religious institutions helpful or hurtful towards achieving sustainability?

∗ Does nation-state system play a positive or negative role on achieving sustainability?

– Is education primary in changing behavior?

– Is UNFCCC most effective way to bring about international climate policy versus focusing on G20 or smaller?

∗ Is world government feasible?

– Should developing countries have binding targets? Should there be cost-mitigation or historical costs imposed?

– Is public sector too stupid or are scientist too dumb?

– Are there intrinsic limits to forecasting?

– Can we overcome global tragedy of the commons?

– Should biofuels play a larger role?

– Should GM play a larger role?

– Is electrification requried for a high standard or living?

– Can United States / developed countries become energy independent without a significant increase in nuclear energy?

– Is sustained growth conceivable?

– Bottom up or top down method for climate change?

– Globalization: good versus bad?

– Is growth the only possible goal for society?

– Is sustainability possible? Under the current democratic system?

– Should individual nations be allowed to support geoengineering projects that might have global implications?

– Is it possible to solve global problems?

– Do we prepare for a Plan B?

– Are market mechanisms essential?

– Decentralized versus centralized energy?

– Mitigation versus adaptation?

– Is it all futile?

– How much should we try to control?

– Is sustainability static?

– Is the world our garden? Is there wilderness?

– Do we need to give up flying?

– Should there be an allocation of ecological footprint?

– Is sustainability an idealology?

- Role of local food in a global economy?

2010 Global Sustainability Summer School-Debates

2010-08-06T14:43:04Z

Tess: /* Main Topics */

{{GSSS 2010}}
Please use this page to organize debate teams and material.

==Disclaimer==

The purpose of this debate is to present reasoned arguments on two sides of a critical sustainable development issue. The views expressed are not necessarily those of the individuals making the arguments.
(Please feel free to edit)

Another stab at the disclaimer --The purpose of this debate is to present reasoned arguments on two sides of a complex sustainable development issue. The views expressed are not necessarily those of the individuals making the arguments. Instead, the individuals are evoking commonly cited arguments from various constituencies about the issue(s) at hand.

==Main Topics==

1. [[Nuclear Energy GSSS 2010 Debate|Nuclear Energy]]
 Nuclear energy production should not be a part of the US energy supply. 

2. [[Innovation vs Behavior GSSS 2010 Debate|Innovation vs Behavior]]
 The best way to achieve sustainability is through innovation, rather than changing consumption or behavior. 

3. [[Climate Change GSSS 2010 Debate|Climate Change]]
 
Climate change is the number one global problem that must be treated with priority.

 [[GSSS 2010 Debate / Top-down vs. bottom-up decision making]] 
4. Top-down decision making is the most effective strategy by which to make our social and environmental systems more resilient. 

==Suggested Topics Included:==

– What is most important problem to deal with: emphasis on climate change versus inequality versus ...?

– Cap and trade versus carbon tax?

– Impact * Population of People on Earth *Affluence * Technology (what to lower?)

∗ Lowering consumption/changing lifestyle/cultural values versus technology?

∗ How much emphasis on population control?

– Does religion/religious institutions helpful or hurtful towards achieving sustainability?

∗ Does nation-state system play a positive or negative role on achieving sustainability?

– Is education primary in changing behavior?

– Is UNFCCC most effective way to bring about international climate policy versus focusing on G20 or smaller?

∗ Is world government feasible?

– Should developing countries have binding targets? Should there be cost-mitigation or historical costs imposed?

– Is public sector too stupid or are scientist too dumb?

– Are there intrinsic limits to forecasting?

– Can we overcome global tragedy of the commons?

– Should biofuels play a larger role?

– Should GM play a larger role?

– Is electrification requried for a high standard or living?

– Can United States / developed countries become energy independent without a significant increase in nuclear energy?

– Is sustained growth conceivable?

– Bottom up or top down method for climate change?

– Globalization: good versus bad?

– Is growth the only possible goal for society?

– Is sustainability possible? Under the current democratic system?

– Should individual nations be allowed to support geoengineering projects that might have global implications?

– Is it possible to solve global problems?

– Do we prepare for a Plan B?

– Are market mechanisms essential?

– Decentralized versus centralized energy?

– Mitigation versus adaptation?

– Is it all futile?

– How much should we try to control?

– Is sustainability static?

– Is the world our garden? Is there wilderness?

– Do we need to give up flying?

– Should there be an allocation of ecological footprint?

– Is sustainability an idealology?

- Role of local food in a global economy?

OpEd Draft: Further criticism of the airport expansion in the light of the coming taxation of airline tickets - Therese Hertel

2010-07-22T18:00:35Z

Tess: New page: OpEd Draft by Therese Hertel To be published in German in the regional newspaper for Kassel city/county (HNA) Further criticism of the airport expansion in the light of the coming taxa...

OpEd Draft by Therese Hertel

To be published in German in the regional newspaper for Kassel city/county (HNA)

Further criticism of the airport expansion in the light of the coming taxation of airline tickets

The current discussion about the airline tax, which the federal government wants to establish, puts a new light and a new reason for critic towards the expansion of the small regional airport Kassel-Calden that the Hesse state government has already commenced. It is time to rethink the need for economically and ecological sustainability again.

Despite the hasty cry of the aviation industry, the taxation of airline tickets is a necessary and timely measure to implement the national and international efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions effectively.

The planned tax for each flight of a German airport would be up to 13 € for short flights up to 2,500 km and € 26 for long haul mileage out of this. Airline operators indicate that the additional costs will be reflected in rising fares. They expect a decline in passenger numbers and as a result about 10,000 fewer jobs.

Should the airline industry really experienced a loss of passenger numbers and layoffs are not around to make the necessary savings, first savings would probably be made first at small, regional airports - such as the Airport Kassel-Calden -. As a tax on kerosene (in this case, indirectly through taxes on air travel) is long overdue and an opposite decision is not sustainable, its time for the German airlines to adapted. I am of the opinion that these changes required a renunciation of small regional airports.

Rather continue investing in a doomed project from the start, the state government should as soon as possible realize their mistakes and change course.
Possible alternatives to the expansion of the airport, that would strengthen the economic region of North Hesse as well, are an extension of the rail and regional transport. Additional measures should aim at improving the technology of used buses and trains.

By investing in an improved transportation system the state government could make a lasting contribution to environmental protection while improving the environment for the creation of new companies in the region. Innovative ideas and their implementation could be a model for sustainable, environmentally conscious regional policy.

Words: 362

This is not the ultimate draft. I will included further details when i am back in Germany and have talked to involved parties.

2010 Global Sustainability Summer School-Op-Ed

2010-07-22T17:58:16Z

Tess: /* Drafts */

{{GSSS 2010}}

This page is intended for op-ed topics and discussion.

Jackman's Idea: Every year big box stores are built on acres of formerly fertile farm land to both the detriment and benefit of small communities. Every year many of those box stores fail or relocate, primarily for expansion. With the failure or departure of these store, we are left with rural "big box-store blight" - huge, unusable buildings and acres of paved, impermeable surfaces that mar the landscape. Upon abandoning retail locations, I think that box store retailers such as Walmart, Whole Foods, Kmart, Krogers, and many others have an obligation to restore the landscape to its original condition or renovate the buildings and parking lots to accommodate other (non-box store) uses. In an op-ed I would like to motivate the necessity for this policy as well as provide suggestions as to how this might be achieved. I expect that these methods will provide disincentives for some box-stores to locate in areas with this requirement, but this is not the objective. Rather, the objectives are to 1) motivate box-stores to locate carefully, 2) discourage them from moving for the purposes of expansion, and 3) maintain the environmental, social, and community value of the landscape. Perhaps not exactly to the point, but an interesting Ted video about [http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/ellen_dunham_jones_retrofitting_suburbia.html reclaiming and retrofitting suburbia]. 

Way to go Duke... [http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/duke_community/oped.html some helpful tips for writing and getting your op-ed published ]
 
 
Strumsky's Idea: Education and Irrationality: The solution offered for many major social problems is that we can educate our way out of them. This strikes me about as viable as being able to invent our way out of problems. There are too many examples of people having a clear, well informed understanding of a problem and they do not dispute the facts or data, yet choosing the irrational option (or to use game theory, selecting non-dominant strategies). The examples are everywhere; obesity is well understood, the facts and consequences for people’s health is not in dispute, yet obesity and its health consequences are on the rise - not just in the US, but globally. We can go on and on, alcoholism, drinking and driving, smoking, positions against healthcare reform by the individuals who are ill and uninsured. If we can not educate our way out of problems what do we do? We need another option.
 
 

[[M. K. Dorsey's Op-Ed Ideas, Some Old Ones & Pithy Strategic Banter]]

==Drafts==

[[Op/Ed Draft: "Owning coastal property might put you on the rocks" - Eli Lazarus]]
 
 
[[Media:Op_ed_ANITA_CARRASCO.doc‎| Op/Ed Draft: "A Tale of Violence" - Anita Carrasco]]
 
 
[[Media:OpEd_jackman_v1.doc‎| Op/Ed Draft: "Big Box Store Slight" - Dana Jackman]]
 
 
[[Media:Gallemoreoped.doc| Op/Ed Draft: "Fearing Fear Itself" - Caleb Gallemore]]
 
 
[[Media:Oped-Hongtao_Yi.doc| Op/Ed Draft: "Rare Earth Supply Faces Dramatic Decrease: Disaster or Opportunity?" - Hongtao Yi]]
 
 
[[Op/Ed Draft: "Bike Lanes or BP?" - John Baker (Note: I could use help with a better title. Suggestions?]]
‎ 
 
[[Media:Live learn and thrive.doc| Op/Ed Draft: "Live, Learn, and Thrive" - Yao Yin]]
‎‎ 
 
[[Media:The_False_Promises_of_Shale_Gas.pdf| Op/Ed Draft: "The False Promises of Shale Gas" - Joe Cresko]]
‎ 
 
[[Let the river in! - Dana Coelho]]
 
‎ 
[[Op/Ed Draft: Strong stands against natural gas drilling in PA - Maria Dillard]]
 
 
[[Sweden should aim for zero carbon as quickly as possible - David Bryngelsson]]
 
 
[[OpEd Draft: Further criticism of the airport expansion in the light of the coming taxation of airline tickets - Therese Hertel]]

Further criticism of the airport expansion in the light of the coming taxation of airline tickets / kerosene - Therese Hertel

2010-07-22T17:56:10Z

Tess: New page: OpEd by Therese Hertel: To be publised in German in the regional newspaper of Kassel city/county (HNA) Further criticism of the airport expansion in the light of the coming taxation of...

OpEd by Therese Hertel:

To be publised in German in the regional newspaper of Kassel city/county (HNA)

Further criticism of the airport expansion in the light of the coming taxation of airline tickets

The current discussion about the airline tax, which the federal government wants to establish, puts a new light and a new reason for critic towards the expansion of the small regional airport Kassel-Calden that the Hesse state government has already commenced. It is time to rethink the need for economically and ecological sustainability again.

Despite the hasty cry of the aviation industry, the taxation of airline tickets is a necessary and timely measure to implement the national and international efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions effectively.

The planned tax for each flight of a German airport would be up to 13 € for short flights up to 2,500 km and € 26 for long haul mileage out of this. Airline operators indicate that the additional costs will be reflected in rising fares. They expect a decline in passenger numbers and as a result about 10,000 fewer jobs.

Should the airline industry really experienced a loss of passenger numbers and layoffs are not around to make the necessary savings, first savings would probably be made first at small, regional airports - such as the Airport Kassel-Calden -. As a tax on kerosene (in this case, indirectly through taxes on air travel) is long overdue and an opposite decision is not sustainable, its time for the German airlines to adapted. I am of the opinion that these changes required a renunciation of small regional airports.

Rather continue investing in a doomed project from the start, the state government should as soon as possible realize their mistakes and change course.
Possible alternatives to the expansion of the airport, that would strengthen the economic region of North Hesse as well, are an extension of the rail and regional transport. Additional measures should aim at improving the technology of used buses and trains.

By investing in an improved transportation system the state government could make a lasting contribution to environmental protection while improving the environment for the creation of new companies in the region. Innovative ideas and their implementation could be a model for sustainable, environmentally conscious regional policy.

words: 362

Remarks: This is not the ultimate draft - further details, arguments will be included when i am back in Germany and talked to involved parties.

2010 Global Sustainability Summer School-Op-Ed

2010-07-22T17:52:18Z

Tess: /* Drafts */

{{GSSS 2010}}

This page is intended for op-ed topics and discussion.

Jackman's Idea: Every year big box stores are built on acres of formerly fertile farm land to both the detriment and benefit of small communities. Every year many of those box stores fail or relocate, primarily for expansion. With the failure or departure of these store, we are left with rural "big box-store blight" - huge, unusable buildings and acres of paved, impermeable surfaces that mar the landscape. Upon abandoning retail locations, I think that box store retailers such as Walmart, Whole Foods, Kmart, Krogers, and many others have an obligation to restore the landscape to its original condition or renovate the buildings and parking lots to accommodate other (non-box store) uses. In an op-ed I would like to motivate the necessity for this policy as well as provide suggestions as to how this might be achieved. I expect that these methods will provide disincentives for some box-stores to locate in areas with this requirement, but this is not the objective. Rather, the objectives are to 1) motivate box-stores to locate carefully, 2) discourage them from moving for the purposes of expansion, and 3) maintain the environmental, social, and community value of the landscape. Perhaps not exactly to the point, but an interesting Ted video about [http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/ellen_dunham_jones_retrofitting_suburbia.html reclaiming and retrofitting suburbia]. 

Way to go Duke... [http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/duke_community/oped.html some helpful tips for writing and getting your op-ed published ]
 
 
Strumsky's Idea: Education and Irrationality: The solution offered for many major social problems is that we can educate our way out of them. This strikes me about as viable as being able to invent our way out of problems. There are too many examples of people having a clear, well informed understanding of a problem and they do not dispute the facts or data, yet choosing the irrational option (or to use game theory, selecting non-dominant strategies). The examples are everywhere; obesity is well understood, the facts and consequences for people’s health is not in dispute, yet obesity and its health consequences are on the rise - not just in the US, but globally. We can go on and on, alcoholism, drinking and driving, smoking, positions against healthcare reform by the individuals who are ill and uninsured. If we can not educate our way out of problems what do we do? We need another option.
 
 

[[M. K. Dorsey's Op-Ed Ideas, Some Old Ones & Pithy Strategic Banter]]

==Drafts==

[[Op/Ed Draft: "Owning coastal property might put you on the rocks" - Eli Lazarus]]
 
 
[[Media:Op_ed_ANITA_CARRASCO.doc‎| Op/Ed Draft: "A Tale of Violence" - Anita Carrasco]]
 
 
[[Media:OpEd_jackman_v1.doc‎| Op/Ed Draft: "Big Box Store Slight" - Dana Jackman]]
 
 
[[Media:Gallemoreoped.doc| Op/Ed Draft: "Fearing Fear Itself" - Caleb Gallemore]]
 
 
[[Media:Oped-Hongtao_Yi.doc| Op/Ed Draft: "Rare Earth Supply Faces Dramatic Decrease: Disaster or Opportunity?" - Hongtao Yi]]
 
 
[[Op/Ed Draft: "Bike Lanes or BP?" - John Baker (Note: I could use help with a better title. Suggestions?]]
‎ 
 
[[Media:Live learn and thrive.doc| Op/Ed Draft: "Live, Learn, and Thrive" - Yao Yin]]
‎‎ 
 
[[Media:The_False_Promises_of_Shale_Gas.pdf| Op/Ed Draft: "The False Promises of Shale Gas" - Joe Cresko]]
‎ 
 
[[Let the river in! - Dana Coelho]]
 
‎ 
[[Op/Ed Draft: Strong stands against natural gas drilling in PA - Maria Dillard]]
 
 
[[Sweden should aim for zero carbon as quickly as possible - David Bryngelsson]]
 
 
[[Further criticism of the airport expansion in the light of the coming taxation of airline tickets / kerosene - Therese Hertel]]

2010 Global Sustainability Summer School-ParticipantSuggestions

2010-07-19T17:48:45Z

Tess: /* Fun */

{{GSSS 2010}}

A few of us thought it might be helpful to have a section of books or readings that participants thought were valuable to the sustainability discussion, or at least good reads! Feel free to change categories, add books, or contribute your own thoughts to books already listed.

== Environmental Studies ==
* "Classics in Environmental Studies" - Nico Helissen (1997).
: Contains excerpts of books and reports from Malthus and Carson to Harrison and Gore. A good way to ramp up quickly on some of the commonly discussed environmental literature. Note the copyright is quite old, so newer stuff is not found in the book.

== Change / Sustainability ==
*Getting to Maybe: How the World Is Changed. 2007. Frances Westley, Brenda Zimmerman, and Michael Patton. 
 
A MUST READ:
The Collapse of Complex Societies, by Joseph Tainter (1988) 
Review from Amazon: "Political disintegration is a persistent feature of world history. The Collapse of Complex Societies, though written by an archaeologist, will therefore strike a chord throughout the social sciences. Any explanation of societal collapse carries lessons not just for the study of ancient societies, but for the members of all such societies in both the present and future. Dr. Tainter describes nearly two dozen cases of collapse and reviews more than 2000 years of explanations. He then develops a new and far-reaching theory that accounts for collapse among diverse kinds of societies, evaluating his model and clarifying the processes of disintegration by detailed studies of the Roman, Mayan and Chacoan collapses." 

== Economics ==
 
I think this is the paper driving many of Doyne's comments on CBA, though I should probably ask the man himself :^) 
I assigned it to my CBA class last semester, after a long semester of hard work on CBA, they were not pleased... he he he 
Martin L. Weitzman (2009). Additive Damages, Fat-Tailed Climate Dynamics, and Uncertain Discounting. 
Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal, Vol. 3, 2009-39. 
http://www.economics-ejournal.org/economics/journalarticles/2009-39 

*[[2010_Global_Sustainability_Summer_School-PES|Payment for Ecosystem Services]]

== Fun ==
* "Encounters with the Archdruid" - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McPhee John McPhee] (1971).
: A narrative of three journeys with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Brower David Brower], first executive director of the Sierra Club and founder of Friends of the Earth. In each journey, David Brower is paired with a mineral engineer, a dam builder, and a real estate developer. A fabulous and quick read with many take aways.

* George Carlin - Save the planet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eScDfYzMEEw

* Story of Stuff - http://www.storyofstuff.com/

== Movies ==
* By Hayao Miyazaki - Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away
* By Robert Benigni - [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0419198/ The Tiger and the Snow]

2010 Global Sustainability Summer School-ParticipantSuggestions

2010-07-19T17:47:31Z

Tess: /* Fun */

{{GSSS 2010}}

A few of us thought it might be helpful to have a section of books or readings that participants thought were valuable to the sustainability discussion, or at least good reads! Feel free to change categories, add books, or contribute your own thoughts to books already listed.

== Environmental Studies ==
* "Classics in Environmental Studies" - Nico Helissen (1997).
: Contains excerpts of books and reports from Malthus and Carson to Harrison and Gore. A good way to ramp up quickly on some of the commonly discussed environmental literature. Note the copyright is quite old, so newer stuff is not found in the book.

== Change / Sustainability ==
*Getting to Maybe: How the World Is Changed. 2007. Frances Westley, Brenda Zimmerman, and Michael Patton. 
 
A MUST READ:
The Collapse of Complex Societies, by Joseph Tainter (1988) 
Review from Amazon: "Political disintegration is a persistent feature of world history. The Collapse of Complex Societies, though written by an archaeologist, will therefore strike a chord throughout the social sciences. Any explanation of societal collapse carries lessons not just for the study of ancient societies, but for the members of all such societies in both the present and future. Dr. Tainter describes nearly two dozen cases of collapse and reviews more than 2000 years of explanations. He then develops a new and far-reaching theory that accounts for collapse among diverse kinds of societies, evaluating his model and clarifying the processes of disintegration by detailed studies of the Roman, Mayan and Chacoan collapses." 

== Economics ==
 
I think this is the paper driving many of Doyne's comments on CBA, though I should probably ask the man himself :^) 
I assigned it to my CBA class last semester, after a long semester of hard work on CBA, they were not pleased... he he he 
Martin L. Weitzman (2009). Additive Damages, Fat-Tailed Climate Dynamics, and Uncertain Discounting. 
Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal, Vol. 3, 2009-39. 
http://www.economics-ejournal.org/economics/journalarticles/2009-39 

*[[2010_Global_Sustainability_Summer_School-PES|Payment for Ecosystem Services]]

== Fun ==
* "Encounters with the Archdruid" - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McPhee John McPhee] (1971).
: A narrative of three journeys with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Brower David Brower], first executive director of the Sierra Club and founder of Friends of the Earth. In each journey, David Brower is paired with a mineral engineer, a dam builder, and a real estate developer. A fabulous and quick read with many take aways.

* George Carlin - Save the planet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eScDfYzMEEw

== Movies ==
* By Hayao Miyazaki - Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away
* By Robert Benigni - [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0419198/ The Tiger and the Snow]

2010 Global Sustainability Summer School-After Hours

2010-07-19T17:46:34Z

Tess: /* Some links */

{{GSSS 2010}}

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

Please sign up here if you are interested in going.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Donatella's Second 
1.John B. 
2. 

Unassigned:

==Soylent Green Showing!==

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

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

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

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

==Bandelier Field Trip==

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

Please sign up if you're interested.

(Seats aren't necessarily assignments, just so we can see who needs a ride)

Sign Up
JP's Camry (overloaded w/5 seats) 
1JP 
2Yao 
3Caleb 
4Gabe 
5Hitesh 

Dana's Car 
1.Dana Cohelo 
2.Joe Cresko 
3.Lawrence 
4. 

Unassigned 
6.Lisa Curran 
11. Hongtao Yi 
12. Tess 
14. [[Michael Dorsey]] 
15. Cecilia Roa-Garcia 
16. Deva 
17. Anita 
18. Carolina 
19. [[Veronika Huber]]

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

1Yao 

== Farmers Markets ==

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

== Open Hours Gym ==

SAC Hours from May 31 – August 14 are:

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

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

2010 Global Sustainability Summer School-Blog

2010-07-16T17:14:49Z

Tess: /* Thursday July 15 */

{{GSSS 2010}}

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

==Monday July 12==
Carolina De la Rosa Tincopa 
Shirley Papuga 
Anita Carrasco 

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

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

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

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

==Wednesday July 14==
David Bryngelsson 
Veronika Huber 

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

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

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

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

Gina La Cerva 

==Thursday July 15==
Deborah Strumsky 
Therese Hertel 

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

Joe Cresko 

==Friday July 16==
Janeane Harwell 
Mary Turnipseed 
Eli Lazarus 

==Saturday July 17==

==Sunday July 18==

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

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

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

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

==Friday July 23==

2010 Global Sustainability Summer School-Blog

2010-07-16T17:14:10Z

Tess: /* Thursday July 15 */

{{GSSS 2010}}

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

==Monday July 12==
Carolina De la Rosa Tincopa 
Shirley Papuga 
Anita Carrasco 

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

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

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

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

==Wednesday July 14==
David Bryngelsson 
Veronika Huber 

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

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

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

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

Gina La Cerva 

==Thursday July 15==
Deborah Strumsky 
Therese Hertel 

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

==Friday July 16==
Janeane Harwell 
Mary Turnipseed 
Eli Lazarus 

==Saturday July 17==

==Sunday July 18==

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

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

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

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

==Friday July 23==

2010 Global Sustainability Summer School-After Hours

2010-07-16T17:07:04Z

Tess: /* Open Hours Gym */

{{GSSS 2010}}

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

Please sign up here if you are interested in going.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Donatella's Second 
1.John B. 
2. 

Unassigned:

==Soylent Green Showing!==

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

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

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

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

==Bandelier Field Trip==

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

Please sign up if you're interested.

(Seats aren't necessarily assignments, just so we can see who needs a ride)

Sign Up
JP's Camry (overloaded w/5 seats) 
1JP 
2Yao 
3Caleb 
4Gabe 
5Hitesh 

Dana's Car 
1.Dana Cohelo 
2.Joe Cresko 
3.Lawrence 
4.Amanda. 

Unassigned 
6.Lisa Curran 
11. Hongtao Yi 
12. Tess 
14. [[Michael Dorsey]] 
15. Cecilia Roa-Garcia 
16. Deva 
17. Anita 
18. Carolina

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

1Yao 

== Farmers Markets ==

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

== Open Hours Gym ==

SAC Hours from May 31 – August 14 are:

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

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

== Some links ==

I thought we could also use this platform to exchange useful and funny links ...

George Carlin - Save the planet:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eScDfYzMEEw

2010 Global Sustainability Summer School-After Hours

2010-07-14T21:53:18Z

Tess: /* Taos Field Trip */

{{GSSS 2010}}

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

Please sign up here if you are interested in going.

1.Shirley 
2.Anita 
3.Tess 
4. 
5. 
6. 
7. 
8. 
9. 
10. 
11. 
12. 
13. 
14. 
15. 
16. 
17. 
18. 
19. 
20. 
21. 
22. 
23. 
24. 
25. 
26. 
27. 
28. 
29. 
30. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Donatella's Car 
1.Tao 
2.Amanda 
3. 

Donatella's Second 
1. 
2. 

Unassigned:

John B. 
Anita 
Christian 
Mary T. 

==Soylent Green Showing!==

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

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

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

==Bandelier Field Trip==

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

Please sign up if you're interested.

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

== Farmers Markets ==

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

== Open Hours Gym ==

SAC Hours from May 31 – August 14 are:

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

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

2010 Global Sustainability Summer School-After Hours

2010-07-13T21:46:11Z

Tess: /* Bandelier Field Trip */

{{GSSS 2010}}

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

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

Doynemobile (2 seats) 
1.Doyne Farmer 
2.

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

George Johnson 
1. Yao 
2. Dana Jackman 
3 Shirley Papuga 
4 
5 

Jim Crutchfield 
1.Jim Crutchfield 
2.Lawrence 
3. 
4. 

Gina LaCerva 
1 
2 
3 
4 

==Soylent Green Showing!==

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

1.[[John Paul]] 
2.[[Yao Yin]] 
3.[[Caleb Gallemore]] 
4.[[Hitesh Soneji]] 
5.[[Mary Turnipseed]] 
6.[[Eli Lazarus]] 
7.[[Veronika Huber]] 
8. Tess 
9. Steve 
10. [[Dana Coelho]] 
11. Joe Cresko 
12. Gabe Chan 
13. Lawrence Lin 
14. Shirley Papuga 
15. Amanda James 
16.[[Hongtao Yi]] 

==Bandelier Field Trip==

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

Please sign up if you're interested.

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

John Paul's Camry (5 seats) 
1.JP 
2.Yao 
3.Caleb Gallemore 
4.Gabe Chan 
5.Hitesh Soneji 

== Farmers Markets ==

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

== Opening Hours Gym ==

SAC Hours from May 31 – August 14 are:

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

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

2010 Global Sustainability Summer School-After Hours

2010-07-13T04:12:50Z

Tess:

{{GSSS 2010}}

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

John Paul's Camry (5 seats) 
1.JP 
2.Hitesh 
3.Stevie P. 
4 
5 

Doynemobile (2 seats) 
1.Doyne Farmer 
2.

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

George Johnson 
1 
2 
3 
4 
5 

==Soylent Green Showing!==

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

1.[[John Paul]] 
2.[[Yao Yin]] 
3.[[Caleb Gallemore]] 
4.[[Hitesh Soneji]] 
5.[[Mary Turnipseed]] 
6.[[Eli Lazarus]] 
7.[[Veronika Huber]] 
8. Tess 
9. Steve

==Bandelier Field Trip==

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

Please sign up if you're interested.

Sign Up
1.John Paul 
2.Yao 
3.Caleb Gallemore 
4.Gabe Chan 
5.[[Hitesh Soneji]] 
6.Lisa Curran 
7. 
8. 

John Paul's Camry (5 seats) 
1.JP 
2.Yao 
3.Caleb Gallemore 
4.Gabe Chan 
5.Hitesh Soneji 

== Farmers Markets ==

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

== Opening Hours Gym ==

SAC Hours from May 31 – August 14 are:

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

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

2010 Global Sustainability Summer School-After Hours

2010-07-13T02:52:41Z

Tess: /* Soylent Green Showing! */

Therese Hertel

2010-07-09T12:51:33Z

Tess: New page: I am Therese, 26 years old from Germany. Currently I am studying "Sustainable Resource Management" at the Technische Universität Munich in Freising. Choosing this Masters´s Programme was...