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Hi my name is Sam!

My favorite thing to do is laundry, but only when I have an important deadline coming up. Otherwise I like to read books and study nuclear engineering in my spare time.

I wrote a beginner’s guide to creating a website with GitHub pages here

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Sustainable Planning Seminar - Blog 3

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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.”

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Sustainable Planning Seminar - Blog 2

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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:

  1. “Ethics and Global Climate Change” from Nature Education
  2. “Australia is Committing Climate Suicide” from the New York Times
  3. “The Moral Element of Climate Change” from Stanford News
  4. “The Benefits of Performative Environmentalism” from the Atlantic
  5. “The Density Divide” from Niskanen Center
  6. Biden’s Climate Plan from Politico
  7. “What 2020’s Bizarre Economy Taught Us About Climate Change” from the Atlantic
  8. “How Americans See Climate Change and the Environment in 7 Charts” from Pew Research
  9. “Now that climate change is irrefutable, denialists like Andrew Bolt insist it will be good for us” from The Guardian

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Sustainable Planning Seminar - Blog 1

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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:

  1. IPCC “Summary for Policy Makers”
  2. Fourth National Climate Assessment (summary only)
  3. Selected chapters from David Orr’s book, Hope is an Imperative.

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