Full Project Page Previously, we began our situated project at the top of the hourglass. Our goal this week was to move down the hourglass and forward in our project. Before getting too ahead of ourselves, our group revisited our framing and focus questions and decided they needed some refining. We explored both our framing… Continue reading Update: Project Progress!
Category: Labs
Cast(e)ing About for New Frameworks
Background Transitioning out of the course’s Capitalocene unit, lab groups were instructed to begin thinking about other significant environmental influences. As we’ve explored in weeks past, the Anthropocene’s broad (and arguably vague) “human activity” or “anthropos” and the “capital” of the Capitalocene provide robust frameworks that guide thinking, questioning and research about the environment. This… Continue reading Cast(e)ing About for New Frameworks
Environmental Justice in Portland, Oregon
Background Previously in our weeks-long investigation of “the Capitalocene,” our lab group used country-level data on income, environmental performance, and environmental values and tools like Google Sheets and ArcGIS to analyze global differences and draw conclusions about the relationship between capital and environment. This week we were finally able to shed the limitations of country-level… Continue reading Environmental Justice in Portland, Oregon
Capitalocene Lab—Week 9
Background In this week's lab, we dove deeper into our exploration of the Capitalocene. Further supplementing our country-level data from Yale’s EPI and World Bank, we incorporated country-level data to show environmentally significant values and behaviors around the globe. This new dimension of our Capitalocene study allowed us to make meaning from the trends in environmental performance… Continue reading Capitalocene Lab—Week 9
Lab 7—Further into the Capitalocene
Background In our last lab, we began our exploration of the Capitalocene by analyzing quantitative data and read Daniel Hartley's "Against the Anthropocene" as a frame. He asserts that because the Anthropocene sweeps people into a collective “humanity,” the geological frame assumes that each person on Earth is equally at fault for the climate and… Continue reading Lab 7—Further into the Capitalocene
“Capitalocene” Quantitative Introduction
Background Our labs in previous weeks examined the Anthropocene both quantitatively and qualitatively. This week, we began a quantitative exploration of “the Capitalocene.” Our investigation into the Capitalocene is framed by David Hartley’s piece “Against the Anthropocene.” Hartley takes issue with the idea of the Anthropocene in a number of ways. First, he does not… Continue reading “Capitalocene” Quantitative Introduction
Story Mapping Change in the Anthropocene
This week's lab marks the finale in ENVS 220's study of land use and cover change. In the first 4 labs, my lab group established a research site in Riverview Natural Area and brought the data we collected at our site together with the data collected by 10 other lab groups at their sites nearby.… Continue reading Story Mapping Change in the Anthropocene
ArcGIS—Land Use & Cover Change Lab 4
Background Over the past few weeks, our lab group has been studying Land Use and Cover Change in the Anthropocene through four separate labs. We established a GLOBE site, took intensive measurements, and compared our data to those collected by other groups in our class. This has given us a picture of land use and… Continue reading ArcGIS—Land Use & Cover Change Lab 4
Spreadsheet Fun—Land Use & Cover Change Lab 3
Background In the labs my lab group executed in the past weeks, we sought to better understand Earth’s changing environment through data collection about land use and cover change in the Anthropocene. In this week’s lab, we took the next step in the process by making conclusions about land use and cover change on a… Continue reading Spreadsheet Fun—Land Use & Cover Change Lab 3
Observation, Classification—Land Use & Cover Change Lab 2
Background As the world continues to grow and change under a dynamic human influence, environmental studies must change with it. Doing environmental studies in our changing world means taking part in current, relevant, and global conversations. As budding environmental scientists of 2018 who aim to participate in some of these global conversations, we looked to… Continue reading Observation, Classification—Land Use & Cover Change Lab 2
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