For your own use

(just some reference information (some of this will be helpful for completing assignments)

Online material (part of the in-person version of this class, here FYI)

• Outline for class (very useful for getting down some basic concepts)
• The resource process (technologies have a carbon footprint, which can vary widely from one society to the next)
• Thinking about technology (presenting the water to the fish)
• Thinking about change (horse buggies and VHS ring a bell?)
• European colonialism (slavery, piracy, industrialization . . . )
• Industrialization and risk (are we in the hangover phase?)
• from Project Drawdown (scientists have shown us what to do; we’re just not doing it)

Video resources

(some of these are included in discussion thread 1 assigned source material)

• Printing press and knowledge transformation
• Guns, Germs and Steel (plant and animal domestication)
• Story of Stuff
• Small is Beautiful (appropriate technology)
• Biomimicry
• Upcycling
• Story of Solutions