Eco 474 Principles of Business Sustainability  CALENDAR

Readings and Assignments – Fall 2011

 

 

 

SEP 7

Introductions

The Lorax

Open Space

Camping in Viroqua Fri Sep 16-17: Logistics

SEP 12

 

solar: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/caroline-henderson/oakland-california-at-the_b_955793.html

 

1. Logistics for Sep 16 -17

      

2. Sustainability class survey

 

3. Addition to website: jobs

 

4. Questions about syllabus?

 

5. Ethics/Integrity-Assignment 1

        Dan J on B Corporations

 

6. Deidre Kruser: Guest Speaker from Hillview Greenhouse, on Vermicomposting project

 

SEP 14

 

Corning Glass innovation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cf7IL_eZ38

 

http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2011/09/13/colleges-ban-sale-of-water-bottles-create-controversy/

 

Camping Logistics

 

Ethics/Integrity

FRI SEP 16 (after dinner?) to SAT SEP 17 Noonish

 

Research shows that people who spend time outdoors, camping and visiting local/state/national parks are more likely to understand the need to protect the environment. 

 

Thus - Camping at Steve Tippins very cool property in Viroqua, a pioneering area of Wisconsin in terms of sustainability. We’ll see his second “car”, learn about his “beyond-vegan” diet, visit the food-coop where he is president of the board, roast marshmallows around a campfire and hear a guest speaker on permaculture.   

 

 

SEP 19

 

No Class due to Sep 16-17 activities

SEP 21

 

See Change for Oct 10

 

Check out "Collaborative Consumption" cool interactive: http://www.collaborativeconsumption.com/insider-blog/assets/Collaborative%20Home.jpg

 

http://www.simondale.net/house/

 

 

***********************************

 

Human Rights, Indigenous issues, Cultural Sustainability

Learning Objectives:  

  1. Identify, explain, and defend various definitions of human rights.
  2. Identify and be able to justify human rights in the workplace.
  3. Better understand indigenous rights.
  4. Better understand when indigenous rights, human rights and property rights collide.

 

Learning from Ladakh
    http://www.localfutures.org/ladakh-project

http://www.smallisbeautiful.org/pdf/buddhist_economics/english.pdf


U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights
     http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/

 

Water as a human right

 

*******************************

Class project

 

 

 

Class Project http://www.dellsocialinnovationcompetition.com/HowItWorks

 

SEP 26

 

BEGIN DITCH THE CAR WEEK Activity: Sep 26-Oct 2

 

Human Rights, Indigenous issues, Cultural Sustainability (cont)

 

Film: Power Paths (2009)

 

Guest Speaker: Dr. Gedicks (Sociology)

Resource threats (cyanide gold mining, nuclear weapons testing) to the Western Shoshone. Proposed Gogebic Taconite iron mine next to the Bad River Ojibwe reservation that will be coming up in the legislature this Fall and the company's efforts to rewrite Wisconsin's mining regulations.


Alternative assignment to Sept 16 Camping:
1. Attend the following presentation of "No Impact Man" Colin Beavan http://news.uwlax.edu/%E2%80%98no-impact-man%E2%80%99-coming-to-uw-la-crosse/ 
2. Register for La Crosse's No Impact Week: http://noimpactproject.org/experiment/wi-la-crosse/
3. Do the entire No Impact Man Experiment Oct 9-16. and record your work in a typed journal (and on the blog as instructed). DUE: Beginning of class Oct 17.

SEP 28

 

Ethics: Asn 1 and Case 1

 

*************************

Is this sustainable?

- U.S. tax revenue....... $2,170,000,000,000
- Federal budget.......... $3,820,000,000,000
- New debt.................. $1,650,000,000,000
- National debt............. $14,271,000,000,000
- Recent budget cut....... $38,500,000,000

Now, let's remove 8 zeros and pretend this is a household
budget...

- Annual family income....................... $21,700
- Money the family spent..................... $38,200
- New debt on credit card.................... $16,500
- Outstanding balance on credit card... $142,710
- Total budget cuts............................... $385

Put things in perspective, doesn't it?

*********************************************

Ray Anderson: TEDhttp://www.ted.com/talks/ray_anderson_on_the_business_logic_of_sustainability.html

http://www.interfaceglobal.com/

Read: Natural Capitalism, Ch 7

 

Bring in TP    

 

Projects

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/judith-samuelson/businesses-should-have-public-purpose_b_913137.html

 

 

 

 

OCT 3

 

Eleanor Hand, Director of Communications and Marketing) of American Universities International Programs (AUIP): Sustainability Business Program in New Zealand and Australia over J-term

 

Ecological Literacy

 

Complexity and Other Scientific Issues; Biomimicry

     http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/09/human-skin-embedded-with-spider-silk-can-stop-a-bullet/

 

 

 

OCT 5

 

Visit Hoch Orchard-Organic Orchard in La Crescent

 

OCT 10:  Time Change 3:30-5:00

 

Panel Discussion: Presenters from Gundersen Lutheran will discuss their Sustainability initiatives and how sustainability impacts multiple stakeholders and aspects of their operations.

Panel presentation will be from 3:30-4:30.

Meeting with us from 4:30-5:00

 

MEET in Centennial Hall Room 2305

OCT 12

 

Complexity and Other Scientific Issues; Biomimicry; Waste=Food

 

http://news.yahoo.com/video/business-15749628/home-completely-made-in-america-26889271.html#crsl=%252Fvideo%252Fbusiness-15749628%252Fhome-completely-made-in-america-26889271.html

 

 

http://www.mnn.com/green-tech/research-innovations/stories/manta-ray-inspires-princeton-researcher-to-create-magic-carp?hpt=hp_bn11

*************************

Is this sustainable?

- U.S. tax revenue....... $2,170,000,000,000
- Federal budget.......... $3,820,000,000,000
- New debt.................. $1,650,000,000,000
- National debt............. $14,271,000,000,000
- Recent budget cut....... $38,500,000,000

Now, let's remove 8 zeros and pretend this is a household
budget...

- Annual family income....................... $21,700
- Money the family spent..................... $38,200
- New debt on credit card.................... $16,500
- Outstanding balance on credit card... $142,710
- Total budget cuts............................... $385

Put things in perspective, doesn't it?

*********************************************

 

OCT 17

 

Biomimicry assignment

 

1st and 2nd laws of thermodynamics: Dr Seth King, Physics 

     Solar powered toys! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OCT 19

 

Triple Bottom Line /Life Cycle Accounting

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

OCT 24

 

Fair Trade at Donna Anderson's house

OCT 26

 

Externalities/Full Cost Accounting

 

OCT 30

 

Externalities/Full Cost Accounting

Fair Trade/Income Inequality/Gapminder

Happiness Index

NOV 2

 

Externalities/Full Cost Accounting/Life Cycle Accounting

Fair Trade/Income Inequality/Gapminder

 

TP experiment

 

 

http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_reveals_new_insights_on_poverty.html#.TnJ7z5iHssA.email

 

Computer Lab

     Lorenz Curve assignment

     Gapminder 

 

Happiness Index

      http://www.amazon.com/More-Than-Money-Questions-Redefining/dp/1576756564

 

NOV 7

 

Green Marketing

    Guest Speaker: Dr. McDermott (Marketing)

 

Values and your life's work: figuring out what is important

NOV 9

 

Sign up for presentation: 4 each day next week, approximately 20-25 minutes in length.

 

Analysis of Thrive or Mindwalk

 

 

NOV 14

 

 

Presentations of Student Projects

NOV 16 

 

 

Presentations of Student Projects

Back to Donna Anderson's Home Page

Last Modified 10/17/11