Monday, February 27, 2017
Friday, February 17, 2017
Mexico City if feeling the impact of Climate Change
from NYTimes, Feb 17, 2017 - It is a cycle made worse by climate change. More heat and drought mean more evaporation and yet more demand for water, adding pressure to tap distant reservoirs at staggering costs or further drain underground aquifers and hasten the city’s collapse.
In the immense neighborhood of Iztapalapa — where nearly two million people live, many of them unable to count on water from their taps — a teenager was swallowed up where a crack in the brittle ground split open a street. Sidewalks resemble broken china, and 15 elementary schools have crumbled or caved in.
Much is being written about climate change and the impact of rising seas on waterfront populations. But coasts are not the only places affected. Mexico City — high in the mountains, in the center of the country — is a glaring example. The world has a lot invested in crowded capitals like this one, with vast numbers of people, huge economies and the stability of a hemisphere at risk.
Changing Climate, Changing Cities
The first in a series of articles about how climate change is challenging the world’s urban centers.
One study predicts that 10 percent of Mexicans ages 15 to 65 could eventually try to emigrate north as a result of rising temperatures, drought and floods, potentially scattering millions of people and heightening already extreme political tensions over immigration.
read more from NYTimes:Mexico City, Parched, and Sinking is facing a Water Crisis.
Monday, February 13, 2017
Tuesday, February 7, 2017
Monday, February 6, 2017
Feb 4 Economics
Review Screen Shots - from movie
NYTimes. -
example ESF projects.
Poem
NYTimes. -
example ESF projects.
Poem
The World Is Too Much With Us
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The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;—
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon;
The winds that will be howling at all hours,
And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers;
For this, for everything, we are out of tune;
It moves us not. Great God! I’d rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathèd horn.
text code document - technology - see the link on government
Friday, February 3, 2017
Feb 3 Shortages vs Scarcity and the Eco Movement
What is an Ecomovement
Student - notebooks
many made the decision to use phone instead of listening paying attention.
- William Wordsworth Poem
- Shortage? vs. Scarcity?
- Journals - showing time / light, temp / (environment has limits) how does a light bulb change that? positive negative, turning on the faucet....
Cows have Guns Video 1
Cows have Guns Video 2 - original
Thursday, February 2, 2017
Wangari Maathai
PBS Video - Taking Root
different languages
Nobel Prize Bio
Wangari Maathai ← 2003; Nobel Peace Prize; ... Wangari Maathai memorial trees and garden at the University of Pittsburgh. ... Wangari Maathai — Planting the ...
A Nobel Peace Prize winner finds spiritual values in planting trees ... In 2004 Maathai was honored with a Nobel Peace Prize for her work founding ...
Probably the most well-know plant biologist to a win a Nobel Prize is Norman Borlaug, ... which has planted over 40 million trees across Africa.
Wangari Maathai was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004. In its citation, the Norwegian NobelCommittee noted Professor Maathai's contribution to "sustainable ...
A Nobel Peace Prize winner finds spiritual values in planting trees. ... Who were the previous 10 Nobel Peace Prize winners?
Nobel Peace Prize winner and Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai called on citizens around the world to plant 1 billion trees in the coming year to ...
Wednesday, February 1, 2017
Week 1 Economics
Readings
First Few moments of Last of Mohicans... , Taking Root , and how Small is Beautiful.
Commercial being an Eco Warrior
The Youth Group That Launched a Movement
Republican Lawmakers Take Steps to Repeal Environmental Regulations.
How Trump Administration Will Make Money for Investors, as Predicted by Corporations
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