- January 25 – Alan AtKisson
Naomi Klein – This Changes Everything (Introduction)
Bill Hopwood – Sustainable Development: Mapping Different Approaches
Alan AtKisson – Sustainability is for Everyone
Alan AtKisson – The Sustainability Transformation (Intro Chapter 6)
Johan Rockström: How we can all become responsible stewards of Planet Earth from TED Ideas on Vimeo.
Further reading:
Kate Raworth – A Safe and Just Space for Humanity: Can We Live Within the Doughnut
Robert Costanza – Building a Desirable Economy in Society in Nature
TIPS FROM ALAN (things he mentioned in his lecture):
Pyramid Lite – tools to host your own pyramid workshop
Donella Meadows – Places to intervene in a system
Alan’s TedxUU talk on being effective agent of change (with song!)
Video on the biggest pyramid ever built
- February 1 – Building a Pyramid
Alan AtKisson – Building a Pyramid (Extract)
Global Food Production (Divide within groups)
George Monbiot – Pregnant Silence
Sharon Astyk – How Much Did the Green Revolution Really Matter?
Erika Allen – Growing Community Food Systems
Dana Cordell – The Story of Phosphorus
Gareth Edward-Jones – Testing the Assertion That Local Food is Best
Johan Rockström – Planetary Boundaries: Exploring the Safe Operating Space for Humanity
Vandana Shiva – The Practice of Earth Democracy
Sherry A. Tanumihardjo – The Obesity Malnutrition Paradox
James Woods – Energy and the Food System
The Grist Special Series – Panic-free GMOs
Sustainable Development Goals – official website
- February 8 – Innovations and Strategy
Karen O’Brien & Linda Sygna – Responding to Climate Change: The Three Spheres of Transformation
- Assignment 1 – Extra resources
Natural Step: Four conditions of sustainable society
Richard Heinberg – FOUNDATION CONCEPTS: What Is Sustainability