Digital Scholarship in Environmental Studies
Three weeks ago, Lewis and Clark College's ENVS program hosted Daryl Davis at our annual symposium. Davis is an R&B and blues musician, activist, author and actor. Additionally, Davis, an African American man, is responsible for the withdrawal of over 200 members from the Ku Klux Klan. Under the broad theme of "communication across difference," Davis'… Continue reading Communication Across Difference
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
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
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
My ENVS 220 portfolio, now accessible through this link, summarizes content from the beginning of the semester through today.
As our unit on the Anthropocene comes to a close, I thought it important to take the time to reflect on what we learned. Our labs took us on a journey through the Anthropocene, starting at the local level and concluding with a more global perspective. One of my favorite classes this semester, the Political… Continue reading Food & the Anthropocene
A concentration is a key piece of Lewis and Clark's Environmental Studies Program and is designed by the student around a scholarly area of their interest. My concentration is "Supermarkets." To read the first draft of my summary, framing questions and concentration courses, visit my Concentration page. Keep an eye out for another post about my concentration—I… Continue reading Concentration: Under Construction!
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
Although connected by the common thread of "environmental analysis," the diverse and interdisciplinary nature of the in-class activities we do in ENVS 220 can obscure this connection. Because I've found it hard to visualize the big picture of environmental analysis, I decided to take a step back and reexamine a couple of the activities we've… Continue reading Diverse Analyses
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
Grace Anderson 