Apparently, Princeton wasn’t that sort of school. I wasn’t seeking university credits or a degree, I just wanted to learn. In my early 20s, which was during the early 1980s, I actually went to Princeton to ask them if they had night classes or if I could sit in on lectures. Some universities at the time – and we’re not talking all that long ago – were not only ivory towers, but walled-off ivory towers, that had little interest in sharing their riches with members of the public (like me).Īnd, of course, being able to attend a lecture was altogether out of the question. I just wanted to come in and read the books. And, mind you, I had absolutely no hope of securing borrowing privileges. On more than one occasion, I was turned away by guards posted at the entrances. The problem was that neither library would let me in the door, literally.
Both have amazing, world-class libraries: Firestone at Princeton and Van Pelt at Penn. I was seemingly in luck, as I lived a little south of Princeton University and little east of the University of Pennsylvania, also an Ivy League school. While my local library had some things of interest, what I really needed was a good academic library. The challenge was getting access to useful books. My principal interest was (as it still is now) the environment. My nights and weekends were given to reading pretty much anything that I could get my hands on. During that time, I was a voracious reader. Prior to becoming a professor, for more than two decades I made my living as an artisan, a furniture maker. Click the chevron at any point and the page will quickly scroll up to the top.) (In the lower right of the screen, note the faint box with a small chevron in it. Reading 9, Drawing down greenhouse gas emissions by being the changeįilm 1, Before the Flood and An Inconvenient Sequelįilm 3, A Climate of Doubt and Merchants of Doubtįilm 9, Happy – Are we destroying the planet in a misguided pursuit of happiness? Reading 8, Communicating the Climate Crisis
Reading 7, Social justice, environmental justice, climate justice, and the injustice of it all Reading 3, Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming
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Reading 2, 2☌- Beyond the Limit, Fires, floods and free parking
Reading 1, The uninhabitable (or at least unwelcoming) earth What the Boomer generation knew – and when we knew it What a new generation can do to mitigate the climate crisisĬan one generation do what previous generations failed to do? Why the generation that caused the climate crisis is not acting Intro and How the climate crisis was brought about in a single lifetime The Climate Crisis: What It Was and What Each of Us Did About ItĬhapter 6, The climate crisis as a generational issue Pulling it all together, the 2nd ten things that each of us can do to save the planet Pulling it all together, the 1st ten things that each of us can do to save the planet Personal action, climate activism, or becoming politically active. Why electric cars are more trouble than goodįlying, the absolute worst thing that you can do environmentallyĭo we need a climate vanguard? (Food, today and tomorrow) Why the climate crisis is a cultural rather than just technological problem Plants, Animals, Oceans, Ice, Land, People, Population, & Justice This course is creating a lasting archiveĬhapter 2, The Basics: Science and Reading Some reflections on the first time that Climate Crisis 101 was taught In each of its forms, Climate Crisis 101 is unusual.Ĭlimate Crisis 101 as a NCN (nearly carbon-neutral) course The real reason that I chose to make Climate Crisis 101 such an unusual course. So, what, exactly, is Climate Crisis 101?
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