“The Original Green” is Steve and Wanda Mouzon’s book/website/blog/email list project conveying their “proposition of the Original Green,” which, in their terms, means that “before the Thermostat Age, the places we made and the buildings we built had no choice but to be green. The Original Green is holistic sustainability, and broader than Gizmo Green.” [...]
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The Original Green (book, blog, website, & email list)
Posted in Implementing Sustainability, Uncovering & Evaluating Sources, Urban Infrastructure on January 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Oral history + environmental history
Posted in Environment, History of Sustainability, Oral History, Uncovering & Evaluating Sources on January 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Canadian Oral History Association (COHA) recently published a special issue of their journal Oral History Forum d’histoire orale titled “Talking Green: Oral History and Environmental History.” This special issue is available for free public access (one does not need to be a member of COHA or a journal subscriber to access the articles). The [...]
Mother Pelican: A Journal of Sustainable Human Development
Posted in Equity, Uncovering & Evaluating Sources on January 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve recently been alerted to the existence of an online journal devoted to issues related to sustainability, Mother Pelican: A Journal of Sustainable Human Development. Mother Pelican is a product of The Pelican Web, whose mission it is “to collect, organize, and disseminate knowledge on sustainable development, with especial focus on human development; and to [...]
Nature’s Accountability
Posted in Uncovering & Evaluating Sources, What is Sustainability? on January 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A special issue of the journal Science as Culture (19:4, Dec. 2010) is focused on “nature’s accountability” and provides some insights into the historical development of sustainable practices.: The past three hundred years has seen a rise of scientific measures to account for the human uses of nature. These measures have monitored, recorded and visualized [...]
Solutions Seminars, PSU Institute for Sustainable Solutions
Posted in Events, Organizations, Uncovering & Evaluating Sources, tagged portland oregon on November 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Portland State University (PSU) Institute for Sustainable Solutions hosts Solutions Seminars every Wednesday from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m., at PSU’s Shattuck Hall Annex (1914 SW Park Ave.). These seminars “explore visionary and desirable solutions to the environmental, economic, and social challenges of our time.” PSU’s journal Solutions: For a Sustainable and Desirable Future helps [...]
Area radio programs featuring the theme “sustainability”
Posted in Economics, Environment, Equity, Media, Uncovering & Evaluating Sources, tagged radio on November 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Oregon Public Broadcasting’s Think Out Loud radio program this morning was on the topic “Sustainable Oregon and Iraq.” This program featured discussion of two recent developments in regional sustainability efforts. The first was on the five-year agreement that Oregon State University and the government of Iraq entered into help Iraq’s universities in developing sustainable engineering [...]
“Future City: Portland & Networked Urban Sustainability”
Posted in Environment, Uncovering & Evaluating Sources, Urban Infrastructure, tagged portland oregon on November 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In his post “Future City: Portland & Networked Urban Sustainability,” Alex Aylett provides a look “at some of the hits and misses of climate change policy in Portland (OR).” He sought to provide more than “just a summary of one city’s programs” to identify evidence of what he sees as “an important shift in the [...]
On Sustainability, Fall 2010
Posted in SHP Fall 2010, Uncovering & Evaluating Sources, What is Sustainability? on October 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This quarter, I asked the students to compose blog posts highlighting what they felt to be the most important elements from their Reading Response 1 and 2 assignments. As part of Reading Response 2, I asked students to pair an article I had selected with something from their own discipline or area of interest that [...]
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