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2011 in review

Posted in About the SHP on January 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 7,500 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 6 trips to carry that many people. Click here to [...]

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Enigmas of Sustainability

Posted in About the SHP, Enigmas of Sustainability on April 20, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Consider the following situations: ** A committed social justice organization increases its productivity, grows its network, and expands its positive impacts in the local area through the use of computers and other information technologies—the same kinds of technologies produced in areas lacking fundamental labor regulations and disposed of in ways that release potent toxins into [...]

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Focus of the Fall 2010 term: Regional Equity

Posted in About the SHP, Equity, Organizations, Quantifying Sustainability, SHP Fall 2010, tagged on October 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

For the Fall 2010 academic quarter, we will be looking at sustainability in the Portland area (broadly defined) through the lens of equity. I’ve facilitated these courses since the Winter 2009 quarter, and I’ve consistently found that the majority of students don’t immediately think of equity issues when considering sustainability; most of them readily think [...]

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Student-written blog posts

Posted in About the SHP, SHP Fall 2010 on October 12, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Beginning with the Fall 2010 quarter, I’m trying a new exercise with my students. The previous two quarters I’ve taken highlights of student reading responses and, from these highlights, created blog posts. The two primary reasons I wanted to do this were to make student insights and questions available to the broader public; I also [...]

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