Environmental education is a pressing need in our modern world. We at ACM schools are well positioned to address this need in an efficient and effecti...
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Supporting and Strengthening Environmental Studies Curricula at ACM Colleges
Students who take Environmental Studies courses engage in interdisciplinary, place-based, and experiential learning, all high impact educational pract...
Two Courses on Mining and the Environment
Curricular materials created for the 2017 SAIL seminar: Wilderness in the Anthropocene I have designed two versions of a highly interdisciplinary cour...
Environment v Industry? Investigating Contested Landscapes in the Midwest
Curricular materials created for the 2017 SAIL seminar: Wilderness in the Anthropocene The course is about the conflicts that arise surrounding the de...
ANT 365 Environment, Culture and Sustainability
Curricular materials created for the 2016 SAIL seminar: Silicon Valley as an Innovation Ecosystem ANT 365 Environment, Culture and Sustainability comb...
Fostering Long-Term, Collaborative Research in Environmental Science at ACM Field Stations
ACM institutions have a long tradition of establishing and managing field stations, to engage students in the study of the environment using active le...
Water in Morocco
Water is a beautifully simple molecule that is essential for survival (precious). Rivers have run dry, aquifers are overdrawn, pollution is widespread...
Cities of the 21st Century
I designed a module in an existing course to help students adopt a more critical perspective about social sustainability. Specifically, I wanted stude...
Contested Spaces: The Arctic
As the Arctic ice cap melts, interests are shifting, and the Arctic is quickly becoming a contested space. The melting ice (and improved technologies...
Contested Spaces: The Brazilian Amazon
The Brazilian Amazon is very important, as the rainforest is considered one of the world’s major “lungs,” meaning a carbon sink; such sinks grow...
Integral Ecology
Integral ecology has origins in philosophy and religion and thus values different ways of knowing in a contemporary environmental studies world, that ...