Sustainability Freshman Inquiry

Nov. 4, 2009

Jeff Fletcher

Another Upcoming Event for HW 0

• Chris Cokinos, “Vanished Birds and Shooting Stars: Death and Life from the Skies.”– Nov. 5, 2009 6:30pm– Portland State University, Smith Memorial Student Union Room

333– More info…

• National Sustainability Education Week: Educating for Citizen-Leadership (Nov. 9 – 14th)

• University EcoDistrict Part 2 - THURS. NOV. 19 - 8:30 to 10:30 am, SMU 228 Multicultural Center – Join SERA Architects' Tim Smith in a highly interactive,

community-wide civic ecology conversation in which all will begin to envision and connect our talents and teaching/research interests to an emerging vision for Portland's University EcoDistrict.

Logistics• Assignments

– Read for next week: Water • Sell the rain: How the privatization of water caused riots

in Cochabamba, Bolivia Connie Watson, CBC Radio | Feb. 4, 2003

• Water Revolt: Cochabamba, Bolivia, Frontline, PBS• Who Will Bring Water to the Bolivian Poor? NYT

– Water Footprint Draft• Next Monday 11/9: Bring data and rough draft of intro and

methods

– Final Water Footprint Report Due: Monday 11/16– HW 4

• Credit for doing, not assessed for writing• Diversity of opinion about what has most impact

Design Your Off-The-Grid Diet• In small groups• You are allocated a couple of acres of fertile

land near Portland, plus what you can forage and hunt close by

• If you hand to sustain your group members (without shopping for food), how would you use this land? – What would you eat? – What would you plant? – What would you raise?– What would you gather, hunt/fish?