Sustainability
Spring 2017
Schedule Last Updated: 04/24/17
Date
Topics & Readings
Assignments Due
***NOTE: Schedule may be subject to change
January
1/9
Introduction
- Note that Response #1 requires tracking information from Wednesday 1/11 through Tuesday, 1/17 and is due on Friday, 1/20
1/16
No classes- MKL Day 1/23
Sustainability & Consumerism Readings:
- Freinkel: CH 8
- MNCs & Sustainability
Discuss Response
- WA #1 questions
- Due to BB by 1:30 pm
- Response #1 due 1/20 by 11:00 pm
1/30
About Fair Trade
- About Fair Trade (22 pp.)***This-22 pp.- is the total number of pages of the reading so you have an idea ahead of time what to expect.
- Doherty, et al: "Where Now for Fair Trade?" (19 pp.)
- WA #2 due to BB by 1:30
February
2/6
- The Fair Trade Movement & Coffee (24 pp.)
- Elder, et al: "Big Retail and Sustainable Coffee: A New Development Studies Research Agenda" (9 pp.)
- Watch Cappuccino Trail (53 min.)
- WA #3 due to BB by 1:30
2/13
Outing to Ten Thousand Villages
***Meeting time Group 1 at 2:25; Group 2 at 3:10 (~20 min. from NKU)
Response #2 due for Ten Thousand Villages site visit- due 2/19 by 11:00 pm
2/20
Food Supply & Demand Readings:
- Conventional v. Organic
Rice Is Organic More Nutritious? Productivity Comparisons
Local Food (17 pp.)
- The Debate
Eating Locally Crop Diversity
- WA #4 due to BB by 1:30
2/27
Food Supply & Demand
Readings:
- Livestock
- Plant-based Diets
- Entomophagy
A video about Serendipalm if you want to learn more.
- WA #5 due to BB by 1:30
March 3/6
Spring Break
Do something fun!3/13
Readings:
- Water (32 pp.)
- Water scarcity
- Water in US
- Water quiz
- WA #6 due to BB by 1:30
If you're interested, more about getting drinking water in the GS
Site visit to Greater Cincinnati Water Works at the Richard Miller Water Treatment plant
Response #3 for GCWW site visit no longer due
3/27
Reducing, Reusing, and Recycling Waste: Part I
- Reducing
- Recycling- (27 pp.)
- Watch this video about Christmas tree lights (scroll down the article to find it; you don't have to read the article, which is from the Recycling chapter)
- WA #7 due to BB by 1:30
*You might be interested in this article about repairing and Reusing stuff.
Also, Haley came across this really interesting PowerPoint on food waste in South Africa. While the data is specific to SA, many of the points are equally applicable across Africa and other GS countries.
4/3
Reducing, Reusing, and Recycling Waste: Part II
- Freinkel: CH 7- Plastic Bottles
- Light bulbs (also watch video)
- Roads
- Houses
WA #8 due to BB by 1:30
4/10
Outing to Rumpke Recycling
***Meeting time 1:10 (~30 min. from NKU)
- Response #4 due for Rumpke Recycling site visit due 4/16
4/17
Reducing, Reusing, and Recycling Waste: Part III
- Freinkel: Introduction, CH 6- Plastic Bags
- The Biggest Source of Plastic Waste...
- WA #9 due to BB by 1:30
If you're interested, an article about the impact of the plastic bag ban in Rwanda, which just shows how so few issues are very straightforward.
4/24
The Future
- Ellwood: CH 7, Ch 8
- A Surprising Fair Trade Product
- WA #10 due to BB by 1:30
If you're interested, an article on Wind & Solar Power
May
5/1
Final Exam Time 1:00-3:00 Analysis paper due to BB - see assignment for submission instructions