Class 7 FOOD AND GMOs                                                                              Monday, July 14

• DUE: Food Analysis
• AUDIO: Democracy Now on Biotech/GMOs (with Vandana Shiva) 1hr
• VIDEO: Interview with Director "The World According to Monsanto"
• FILM: The Future of Food

Priority One Readings:

• Miguel A. Altieri and Peter Rosset (1999) “Ten Reasons Why Biotechnology Will NOT Ensure Food Security, Protect the Environment and Reduce Poverty in the Developing World (1999a)” AgBioForum 2(3-4): 226-236.

• Martina McGloughlin (1999) “Ten Reasons Why Biotechnology Will Be Important to the Developing World” AgBioForum.

• Miguel A. Altieri and Peter Rosset (1999) “Strengthening the Case for Why Biotechnology Will Not Help the Developing World” AgBioForum.

• Andrew Hund, “Monsanto: Visionary or Architect of Bioserfdom? A Global Socio-Economic Examination of GMOs”

Priority Two Readings:

• Melissa Moore (1998) “12 Myths about Hunger,” FoodFirst.

• Richard Manning (2004) “The Oil We Eat: Following the Food Chain Back to Iraq,” Harper’s Magazine.   

• Michael Pollan (2006) “The Vegetable-Industrial Complex,” [October 15, 2006] The New York Times Magazine.

• Bill McKibben, “The Cuba Diet,” (2005) Harper’s Magazine, April 2005, pp. 61-69.

Class 8 BIOSPHERE AND CLIMATE CHANGE                                          Wednesday, July 16

• VIDEO: Glacial Melt in Peru

• VIDEO: Arctic Ice Abrupt Withdrawal (Present-2040) (30sec)

• VIDEO: Arctic: Arctic Sea Ice loss 1979 to 2007 (1<m)

• VIDEO: Kiribati Faces Doom from Rising Sea Levels (6m)

• VIDEO: Bangladesh Environmental Refugees - Mohan's story (9m)

• VIDEO: CORAL REEFS: In Hot Water (10m)

• VIDEO: Effects of CC in Nicaragua Miskitos (3m)

• VIDEO: Climate Change and Human Rights: Inuit Perspectives (52m)

• FILM: An Inconvenient Truth or Everything's Cool

Priority One Readings:

• IPCC (2007), 4^th Assessment, “Climate Change 2007: A Synthesis,” pp. 1-24.

• Pielke, et al (2008) "Dangerous Assumptions (of IPCC 2007)," Nature 45:2/3.

• Fisher, PB (2008), "Just Climate Governance: Human Security and Climate Change in Tuvalu."

• Domingues, et al (2008) "Improved estimates of upper-ocean warming and multi-decadal sea-level rise," Nature 453:1090-94.

ADDED: Boykoff and Boykoff, Web Article on Bias of Media on Global Warming

ACTUAL JOURNAL ARTICLE (for above) Boykoff & Boykoff, "Balance as Bias: Global Warming and the US Prestige Press"

Priority Two Readings:

• Epoch Times, "Inuit Culture, Frozen in Time, Now Melting Away", Aug 18-25, 2005.

• "The Sinking of Tuvalu," Feb. 13, 2005 (with pictures)

• Rosenthal (Nov 17, 2007) “UN Chief Seeks More Climate Change Leadership,” NY Times.

• Max Boykoff (Feb 21, 2008). “The Real Swindle” Nature, pp. 1-2.

• Gristmill “What to Say to a Climate Skeptic”

• Denver Post, “West is Warming Epicenter”

• “Global Warming Report: Less Winter in West”

• Inconvenient Truth Study Guide (pdf)

Class 9 WATER                                                                                               Monday, July 21

Priority One Readings:

• Peter H. Gleick, “Chapter 1 - The Millennium Development Goals for Water” from The World's Water: 2004-2005, pp. 1-14 (pdf).
• Vandana Shiva, “Water Wars: Fighting Over the Source of Life,” February 2008.
• Lester Brown (2008), "Emerging Water Shortages", Chapter 4--Plan B 3.0 Mobilizing to Save Civilization, pp. 68-84.

Priority Two Readings:

• Josh Clark, “Exactly What Happens If We Run Out of Water,” How Stuff Works.
• United Nations (2006) "Water: A Shared Responsibility" World Water Development Report 2, Executive Summary, pp. 3-6; 10-14; 18-23; 43-45.

Class 10 LAND AND ECOSYSTEMS                                                           Wednesday, July 23

• Due: photo/video investigation presentations (part i)

• FiLM: One More Dead Fish

   

Priority One Readings:

• Lester Brown (2008) "Natural Systems Under Stress," Chapter 5, Plan B 3.0, Mobilizing to Save Civilization, pp. 85-105.
• Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Report (2005) Ecosystems and Human Well Being, Summary for Policy Makers, World Resources Institute, pp. 1-24.

Priority Two Readings:

• "Bye-Bye Amazonia,” Earth Day 2006.
• Lester Brown (2006) "The Earth Is Shrinking: Advancing Deserts and Rising Seas Squeezing Civilization", Earth Policy Institute.
• Janet Larsen (2003) "Deserts Advancing, Civilization Retreating" Earth Policy Institute.
• UN Division of Sustainable Development, Trends in Sustainable Development 2008-2009, Full Report, pp. 1-34.
• Secretariat of the Convention on Biodiversity (2000), Sustaining Life on Earth,  pp. 2-20.