Fall 2013

Welcome to the blog portion of this course!
This semester EDU 100 will be slightly different from past EDU 100 sections, since it is part of this environmental education, sustainability freshman learning community.
While our focus is still education, there is a thread of sustainability throughout.
While you peruse past semester student blogs (on the right blog link lists) you will see many blogs mainly focused on education and education hot topics.
This fall semester you will be creating a blog with A GROUP focused on a hot topic in the environment.
There are many hot topics in this area right now:

1.  FUKUSHIMA nuclear power plant and how they just fished up blue fin tuna on the coast of california that are radioactive due to the Fukushima plant meltdown due to the Tsunami.
http://samuel-warde.com/2013/08/radioactive-bluefin-tuna-caught-off-california-coast/
http://www.thenation.com/article/175799/fukushimas-invisible-crisis#axzz2d5YwpQvk
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/21/us-australia-uranium-idUSBRE97K09R20130821
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2013/08/22/fukushima-japan-radioactive-leak.html
http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2013/08/21/fukushima-watch-a-level-3-incident-at-daiichi/
http://www.news-medical.net/news/20130822/New-focus-on-long-term-effects-of-Fukushima-Daiichi-nuclear-disaster.aspx  But is it only in Japan?
http://grist.org/climate-energy/ask-umbra-what-can-fukushima-teach-us/
This topic is interesting from many perspectives. 1) nuclear power, 2)  what does media do to cover up or illuminate news?  3)  this issue specifically and how far has this radioactivity spread into our own food chain, particularly DAIRY.

2. FOOD INDUSTRIALIZATION: GMO'S are an issue onto their own, etc...Organics...see other blog with many links:http://edu309.blogspot.com/
3.  Oil: fracking
4. Oil: Tar Sands and Keystone Pipeline?
5.  Oil and our involvement in the middle east wars

6. BEES?  and the neonic pesticides and our own roll in this...what is going to happen?


http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2149141,00.html

This is what your supermarket would look like if all the bees died off

6. global Warming:  is global warming increasing world violence?

http://grist.org/news/climate-scientists-are-95-percent-sure-that-humans-are-causing-global-warming/

7> Environmental justice: http://www.ejfoundation.org/?gclid=CJCQwtXInLkCFYik4AodRykAYQ  many issues there to peruse...global justice issues.

AND THE GRIST http://grist.org/news/ HAS TONS OF ARTICLES TO PERUSE TO SEE WHAT IS OF INTEREST TO YOU.

i.e.

electric cars?  prius etc, is it worth it?

Where does our garbage go?

What towns are banning plastic bags and what does this mean?

AlsoL check out this link by David Suzuki to get some ideas of other issues, if you click on some of the other links he refers to: http://davidsuzuki.org/blogs/healthy-oceans-blog/2013/08/seven-things-you-can-do-every-day-to-protect-our-oceans/