It's in the nature of the class that we'll spend a lot of our time focusing on Marlboro-specific topics, or at least how a particular topic intersects with our life up here on the hill. I don't want us to lose sight of the bigger picture and why we care about how sustainable Marlboro is. This page is open to editing by all. It's for adding links of interest to anything under the broadest possible heading of environmental studies. So, what are you reading and what do you think?

Suggested format: add a second-level heading for each new link, add a link and perhaps some commentary below, and sign your name. Others can add further comments in that section (again, sign your name). I'll put something up to get us started and demonstrate the format.

An article in the Guardian discussing how much various forms of transport constribute to global warming and how changing the time frame that we care about drastically alters the analysis. -Matt

Untangling the Environmentalist’s Paradox: Why Is Human Well-being Increasing as Ecosystem Services Degrade?, by Ciara Raudsepp-Hearne et al in Bioscience (free online for a limited time) and an article in the Guardian about it. -Matt

Boondoggles to the Rescue! A blog post by Dmitry Orlov. He's not the cheeriest of writers on our future, but he's perceptive and depressingly funny. -Matt

Whenever I see plant ops out on their noisy mowers keeping the grass short I daydream about converting the whole campus to permaculture or something similar. A few sources:

-Matt

Here's an article by George Monbiot in the Guardian discussing a new book that has persuaded him out of his previously held view that veganism "is the only ethical response to what is arguably the world's most urgent social justice issue". -Matt

http://cs.marlboro.edu/ courses/ fall2010/sustainable/ wiki/ offthehill
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