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Sustainable Planning Seminar - Blog 4
In this series of blog posts I will discuss some of the assigned readings for the Sustainable Planning Seminar (Urban Planning/Geography/Landscape Architecture 446) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). The readings for this week are numerous:
Sustainable Planning Seminar - Blog 3
In this series of blog posts I will discuss some of the assigned readings for the Sustainable Planning Seminar (Urban Planning/Geography/Landscape Architecture 446) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). The reading for this week were selected chapters from the book Sustainable Energy – Without the Hot Air by David JC. MacKay. However, this week I was also (self) designated as the discussion leader for the topic “Energy and Climate,” so I read the entire book. It just as well, since this book was also assigned reading for the classes ENG 571, “Theory, Energy, and Sustainable Engineering.”
Sustainable Planning Seminar - Blog 2
In this series of blog posts I will discuss some of the assigned readings for the Sustainable Planning Seminar (Urban Planning/Geography/Landscape Architecture 446) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). The readings for this week are:
- “Ethics and Global Climate Change” from Nature Education
- “Australia is Committing Climate Suicide” from the New York Times
- “The Moral Element of Climate Change” from Stanford News
- “The Benefits of Performative Environmentalism” from the Atlantic
- “The Density Divide” from Niskanen Center
- Biden’s Climate Plan from Politico
- “What 2020’s Bizarre Economy Taught Us About Climate Change” from the Atlantic
- “How Americans See Climate Change and the Environment in 7 Charts” from Pew Research
- “Now that climate change is irrefutable, denialists like Andrew Bolt insist it will be good for us” from The Guardian
Sustainable Planning Seminar - Blog 1
In this series of blog posts I will discuss some of the assigned readings for the Sustainable Planning Seminar (Urban Planning/Geography/Landscape Architecture 446) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). The readings for this week are:
- IPCC “Summary for Policy Makers”
- Fourth National Climate Assessment (summary only)
- Selected chapters from David Orr’s book, Hope is an Imperative.