Week 4 Update 1

For our meetings this 4th week of the semester:

Please make sure I have your Starting Point Document: am missing a few!

Please create at least one meme for this class / sustainability / environment at OWU:

• Meme Generator
• or Meme Generator

Please review the Week 3 Update 2 posting.

• Check that group info is correct
• Make sure your group can access previous work on your topic in Geog 499 folders from previous years on Drive
  • review and summarize and ask if you have questions
  • check with Emily and John K: we may have other info.
• Make sure you are writing up how you will proceed with your projects, questions, a tentative schedule of efforts, memos and meetings, etc. Discuss or share with Emily and John.
• Meetings: please create a memo for meetings, to share with the meet-ees: include:
  • A clear context for the meeting (example: To discuss Res Life role in May Move Out) along with specific questions.
  • Example memo here.
  • Have Emily or John K. review
  • Include us in on any email about a meeting
  • Add to the class calendar (under Schedule)

Starting Point Document & Updates

Remember that you need to continue to add information to your Starting Point Document. This can be related to your specific work on the project, or broader issues in the 10 readings we did to start the semester.

In addition, I asked you to ponder the issues under Pearls of Wisdom on Week 3 Update 1: in particular “Some Solutions”:

• Social: use the power of social networks.
• Supportive: employ frames that support the message in a positive way.
• Simple: environmentally friendly behaviors easy and convenient.
• Story-based: meaning and community created by the power of stories.
• Signals: use indicators for feedback on societal response.

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I will also pass along additional ideas as they pop into my head (or yours, if you share them with me). They should be worked into your Starting Point Document and related to the practical work in class.

For this week consider these further issues:

• We have already discussed “Scrappy Sustainability” but what about:
  • Subliminal Sustainability
  • Subversive Sustainability
• How does Identity play out in issues you are confronting this semester?
  • example: “Is Eco-Friendly Unmanly?”
    
• Opportunities
  • co-taught interdisciplinary courses: what do students want?
  • Alumni contacts (subversive?)
• Individual Issues of Interest: in my comments on your starting point docs; follow-up on these in particular as the semester progresses. There are a lot of ideas in the first 10 readings; I would like you to address all of them a bit, but you should focus on a few that resonate with you, or start to seem more important as the semester progresses.