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Sustainability Thought and Deed

What will the future be like tomorrow for the students I teach today? What will they need to know to live, to thrive, to maintain freedom, and renew civilization? Where will the energy come from to run tomorrow's world? How will the food be grown? How shall we live? I'm a professor, a researcher, a renewable energy consultant, a sheep farmer, a house builder, a husband. I don't have many good answers, but I have lots of great questions.

Monday, December 12, 2011

The Durban Platform



http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/dec/11/global-climate-change-treaty-durban
Posted by Mick at 2:38 AM

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The "Blue Marble"

The "Blue Marble"
This NASA photograph helps us remember how small a community we really are.

Links for Core III class: Environmental Sustainability

  • Foster and Rahmstorf 2011 paper
  • Environmental Sustainability First Take-Home Exam
  • Wind Power and Wildlife (for Dr. Remsburg's class)
  • Google Docs Folder for Spring 2012 Environmental Sustainability
  • Spring 2012 Syllabus
  • IPCC Fourth Assessment Report Summary for policymakers
  • New England Regional Assessment
  • Maine's Climate Future
  • A Farm for the Future videos
  • Lean and Rind 2009 paper

Links for Spring 2012 Energy and Energy Efficiency

  • First take-home paper
  • Spring 2012 Syllabus
  • Google Docs folder for Energy and Energy Efficiency

Spring 2012 Economics of Resource Conservation and Sustainability

  • Econ. Res. Con. First Take Home Exam
  • Spring 2012 Syllabus
  • Google Docs folder for Economics of Resource Consevration and Sustainability

Spring 2012 REM 101

  • Google Docs Folder for REM 101
  • REM 101 Syllabus

Additional Information

You can see about attending Unity by clicking here.

You can send a donation to support Unity College student sustainability efforts by clicking here.

If you include your home address or email with your donation, we'll let you know which project we spent your money on.

Email Mick Womersley at mwomersley@unity.edu

What is sustainability? Try this page here.

Other Blogs by Mick:
UCSAR, UCSustainability, Farm Diary



General Links


Selected posts (Mick's own favorites):
What will it be like? (Understanding likely climate effects)
Principles of Sustainability Thought and Deed

Careers in green tech and how not to get one: A teaching philosophy

Critical of thinking
Green economics and the metaphysics of quality
On industrial decline, or the actual situation

Internal links

UC Sustainability Monitor
Unity College Homepage
Community Wind Assessment Program

Sustainability Degree Programs at Unity College:
Sustainable Energy Management
Sustainable Food and Agriculture

Best External Sustainability Blogs:
Revkin
Monbiot
Real Climate

Mick Womersley, Professor of Human Ecology

Mick Womersley, Professor of Human Ecology

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