review terms for FINAL EXAM

"Our Plundered Planet"
Bikini
David Bradley
Linus Pauling
Cybernetics
Norbert Wiener
"Atoms for Peace"
Godzilla
Linus Pauling
Huang Wanli
Ma Yinchu
International Geophysical Year
Sputnik
Rachel Carson
Robert White-Stevens
Silent Spring
Werner von Braun
The Port Huron Statement
1963 Partial Test Ban Treaty
Geodesic Dome
"Why Haven't We Seen a Picture of the Whole Earth Yet?"
Paul Ehrlich
Whole Earth Catalog
Barbara Ward
Buckminster Fuller
Stewart Brand
"The Making of a Counterculture"
Apollo 8
Rusty Schweickart
Gaylord Nelson
April 22, 1970
Three Mile Island
Chernobyl
Chipko
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Chico Mendes
Wangari Maathai
The Blue Marble
Carolyn Merchant
Svante Arrhenius
G.S. Callendar
Charles David Keeling
Tipping Points
Fukushima

Energy company, city working together to use byproduct of electricity

An energy company in Boston is buying the hot water from a power plant in Cambridge and using it to heat buildings. This explains why manholes sometimes steam in cool, rainy weather.

http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2011/04/04/in_green_era_an_old_idea_gains_steam/?p1=Upbox_links

Natural exposure to radiation chart

Here is a cool chart about how much radiation you're exposed to on a daily basis vs. medical procedures and exposure to nuclear disasters, etc. Everything is explained on the chart. A larger image can be found here:
http://www.xkcd.com/radiation/

It is provided by Randall Monroe, writer of the webcomic XKCD which you'll like if you like nerd humor.

post for Cory Gates

http://kaosmaschine.com/works/design_trap.jpg



This ad provides an environmental warning by providing a satirical look at the mindset of people who do not care about the environment. By emphasizing that people are doing their part in this pollution this ad truly provides a warning to the rest of the population that they must in fact do the opposite the ad suggests in order to protect the fragile environment.



http://kara.allthingsd.com/20090814/microsofts-vision-of-the-future-and-the-inevitable-spoof/


This picture taken from the cover of a 1979 book entitled “The World of the Future: Future Cities.” On its cover it shows a potential view of the future all possible through the exploitation of technology. With new advances this shows a very optimistic view of how technology will enhance the lives of everybody.

paper & presentation

For your paper and presentation, please choose one of the following options:

1. Compare an example of technological optimism and one example of an environmental warning from the same historical period. (Preferably these documents should be from the same decade or at least within the same 50 years period)

2. Compare two examples of environmental warnings from two different periods (at least 50 years apart).

3. Compare two examples of technological optimism from two different periods (at least 50 years apart).

Leigh Concessi: Blog Assignment

An example of technological warning is the following link to the video, "Too Hot Not Too Handle", which warns against the overuse of fossil fuels. It encourages nations like the United States to be cautionary when dealing with the impacts of climate change, and to take the necessary measures to reverse this dangerous trend.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5368452289665474330#


The following article published on Sify.com is an article of technological optimism. "Breakthrough in nanocomposite for high-capacity hydrogen storage" announces a promising new alternative to fossil fuels made from hydrogen that can be safely stored and easily accessed while maintaining its clean combustion that makes it so appealing.

http://www.sify.com/news/breakthrough-in-nanocomposite-for-high-capacity-hydrogen-storage-news-international-ldoq4hahchc.html

Emily Boyd, Blog Assignment

Optimism: 350.org a project trying to spread the word about 350ppm and getting back to a healthy atmosphere through grassroots global social change (350 is the number that leading scientists say is the safe upper limit for carbon dioxide—measured in "Parts Per Million" in our atmosphere. 350 PPM—it's the number humanity needs to get back to as soon as possible to avoid runaway climate change.)

check out understanding 350 @ http://www.350.org/en/understanding-350

or watch a video of art depicting "350" from all over the world @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-HnrMrQ6Tw

(sorry couldn't figure out how to embed links)

Warning or pessimism: Eaarth by Bill McKibben in his latest book author and environmental activist Bill McKibben breaks down exactly how humans have fundamentally altered the planet creating a new place not called planet Earth but planet Eaarth. While he is optimistic that humans can take action to slow the processes of global warming he is pessimistic in that he believes that there is no stopping or going back, humans will need to evolve in order to continue living on Earth at all and will definitely need to make drastic changes.