Students who take Environmental Studies courses engage in interdisciplinary, place-based, and experiential learning, all high impact educational pract...
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Environmental Education: An Interdisciplinary Symposium
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Integral Ecology
Integral ecology has origins in philosophy and religion and thus values different ways of knowing in a contemporary environmental studies world, that ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Global Political Ecology
My goal was to develop a module in a course called Global Political Ecology (GPE) to help the students reflect on their relationship with the environm...