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ES 106: CRITICAL THINKING ABOUT HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS


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Week 1 Notes: lecture A, Course Overview

     lecture B: Symbols and Substance in Environmental Regulation

CARBON TAX SPREADSHEET

Week 2 Notes: lecture A, Two Problems, Three "Fixes"

     lecture B, Guest Lecture by Thomas Heberlein (BREN HALL 1424)
       Ghosts, rocks, and attitudes: Moving beyond the “Educate the Public” approach to Environmental Management
       
       FILM VERSION of lecture

Week 3 Notes: lecture A, Diversionary Reframing

     lecture B, Are You Being "Framed?"

Week 4 Notes: lecture A, Guest lecture, Roger Witherspoon and Marilyn Elie
                  Telling Your Story in a Technical Era

     lecture B, Review of First Assignment, Plans for Futre Ones

Week 5 Notes: lecture A, Norms and Norm Activation 

     lecture B, Review for Exam

Week 6 Notes: lecture A, Guest Lecture, Norm Sanders
                  From the Seminar to the Senate: Lessons on Making a Difference

Link to Priya's STUDY GUIDE

     lecture B, MID-TERM EXAM

Week 7 Notes: lecture A, Panel (Mary Lou Days, Bob Sollen, Jim Mills, Marc McGinnes)*
                 Why was Santa Barbara so important in the emergence of the
                 Environmental Movement?

written comments by Robert Sollen

     lecture B, Spotting the SCAMs

Week 8 Notes: lecture A, Panel (Selma Rubin, Paul Relis and Marc McGinnes)*
                 Looking Back, Looking forward: How have Santa Barbara and UCSB
                 Contributed to Environmental Improvement so far? What's next?

     lecture B, Another look at offshore oil and Santa Barbara

Week 9 Notes: lecture A, The Chainsaw, the Nest, and the Frame

     lecture B, Slipping, Sinking, and Systemic Power

Week 10 Notes: Lecture A: This is deadline to turn in your papers! No class today

     lecture B, Final Review

FINAL EXAM: Link to Priya's STUDY GUIDE

*Mary Lou Days is a long time community historian who can speak with first hand knowledge about the "conservation' and "preservation" work of Pearl Chase and many others in the years before the spill. She is currently a member of the board of the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation.

Jim Mills is one of the "naturalists" (his term) who fought against the Forest Service plans to put roads into much of the Los Padres Forest backcountry and who did so by getting approval for the creation of the San Rafael Wilderness area, the first or one of the first established under the 1965 Wilderness Act.

Bob Sollen was a reporter with the Santa Barbara News-Press for a few years prior to and for years after the 1969 blowout. While he is generally associated with post-blowout history, he has a good understanding of the pre-blowout community conservation and preservation effort

Marc McGinnes is an environmental lawyer, leader and educator; one of the founders and long-time stalwarts of the Environmental Studies Program at UCSB, he developed and taught ten courses in Environmental Studies Program, 1971-2005.

**Selma Rubin is a long-time community leader. Among her other roles, she served as founding director of Santa Barbara Citizens for Environmental Defense (1969), the Community Environmental Council (1970) and the Environmental Defense Center (1977). Still active today, she is a recipient of UCSB Environmental Studies Outstanding Community Service Award.

Paul Relis was a student at UCSB at the time of 1969 blowout. Since then, he has served as the Executive Director of Community Environmental Council (1970-1990) and a member of the California Integrated Waste Management Board (1990-1997). He now serves as Executive Vice President for CR&R, Inc., a major Southern California waste management and resources recovery firm..

 

(full text of Luntz memo)

Photos from New Orleans, Lower 9th Ward and St. Bernard Parish, March 2006

Photos from Plaquemines Parish & Lower 9th Ward, Oct 2005


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