Sustainability History Project

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 wanted to disseminate some of my replies to individual student work to the whole class, rather than have my replies be just a dialogue between the individual student and I.

Examples of these posts include:

**On Sustainability, Spring 2010
** On Sustainability, Spring 2010 (pt. 2 of 2)
** On Sustainability, Summer 2010 (pt. 1 of 2)
** On Sustainability, Summer 2010 (pt. 2 of 2)
** In response to Bonevac, “Is Sustainability Sustainable?”

This quarter, I thought it would be more engaging & thought-provoking to both students and the community if the students wrote the blog posts themselves, based upon their own understanding and interpretation of the readings. This week, I’ll post the first round of student blog posts. Stay tuned!

** Update Oct. 12, 2010**
The three posts are:

** Our Understanding of Sustainability
** Sustainability means recognizing trade-offs & “the tragedy of the commons”
** Social sustainability co-equal to economics & ecology

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