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ABCs of biological diveristy what are the ideas behind living systems as a source of wealth?

Academic activities

Accounting for ecological assets or natural values
Acres needed to sustain industrial consumption the human footprint grows ever more intrusive.
Acronym for habitat -- Weal this explains a mnemonic device for ecologically conceptualizing any place.
Actions an example of steps to take to change existing status of affairs.

Additional material on the site, 2004-2005

Advanced vocabulary

Advocating transformative education.

advocacy Class

Air carbon dioxide excesses that are considered thermal pollution.
Air, composition of the atmosphere
Air quality, the carbon content graph of air saturation levels 1958-2000, at Hawaii--or Keeling Curve.
Albert Einstein's personal beliefs a brief overview of what he thought about besides revolutionizing gravity and time.
Aldo Leopold's Land Ethic this biologist conceived of terrain as alive, imbued with power and worthy of respect.
American Environmental History, course index

America's cultural landscape. A critical analysis of habitat or terrain conversion in the US.
America's Natural Heritage An inquiry into national attitudes about land, native peoples, and wildlife.
An Emerging Sense of Place Course

Antonyms of important terms

Approaches to learning differ, Learning styles Not all people learn in the same way, some dominant patterns are discussed.
Aquifer, what is it?-- a water soaked or porous, water bearing, underground rock formation used for drinking and waste.

Art, perspective in the 16th century

Artists of the seashore

Arid regions Wallace Stegner called these plains, west of the Texas panhandle -- beyond the 100th meridian too dry to farm.
Assessment, six key steps in reevaluating objectives Once we have made an error, adaptive management requires a correction!

Assignments this is a genericexplanation for how students should approach work submitted for review.

Assimilative Capacity How do we measure the atmosphere's ability to absorb pollution? Check this out.

Atmospheric Chemistry percentages of atomic elements and compounds in the air.
Atomic Age, Science and Policy: In the Course syllabus under construction.
Atoms, what are they?
Austin, Mary. The Land of Little Rain. A remarkable woman defines her sensitivity to her second home in the 1890s. Authors referred to on this site (a brief sub-listing) Sources of authority for the ideas in this web page.

Autism, technological the new malady that is diagnosed here which robs us of our reason, faiths and even our identities!

Automated as opposed to mechanical developments in technology
Awareness: Community these are solutions to curb our present consumption of space, water and resources

Barrier Islands

Bachelard's paradox, Gaston Bachelard, French poet and physicist

Biodiversity Three types of natural variability are discussed and interpreted as a basic source of value to protect.
Biosphere, a look at the integrity of nature and life's diversity on earth.
Body, or corpus of knowledge, description

Cadillac Desert a synopsis of a book by Marc Resiner
California a brief review of the proceedings from a 150th commemoration of the California gold rush, 1999.

California Water history Professor Emeritus, Norris Hundley's remarkable history of abuse by the best of people's noble intentions.

Campus map (Rollins College)

Canyon Dams Controversy in the Grand Canyon They tried to dam it and then they generated smog to hide it, a place besmirched.
carbon dioxide emissions each American contributes tons of carbon dioxide to the air annually.

Caribbean, region defined

Caribbean History study guide

Carrying Capacity compared to assimilative capacity are two means of seeing limitations-- see too
carrying capacity

Case studies of ecological problems.

Case study of water delivery systems

Cervantes, Miguel: sayings of, This master of Spanish literature gave us more phrases than you may know.
Challenges from global warming Human waste, or thermal pollution is now altering the very composition of the air we breathe.
Characteristics of science

Charette designing eleemnts to fita a community's needs

Class Attendance why it is important to your grade.
Class organization scheme - CORE Courses that I teach are organized with this acronym in mind.
classes: course survival kit for all students.

class times Course offerings, office hours and schedules for the current term

Clean energy agenda --mThe Earth Day 2000 attempt to generate popular support for clean air

Climate and sustainability the not so obvious connections between cutting emissions and living well
Climate change an index to all of the material on this site pertaining to global warming

Climate change assessment form concerning global warming impacts on places.

climate change, (a recent bibliography) 2004 tp 1998.

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Coevolving coexistence with nature If you can't live with it consider what would happen if you tried to live without it!

Colorado River Dams Controversy (1963-1968) a proposal to place two dams in the Grand Canyon was seriously considered.
Colorado River Valley a case study of concerning river management
Commentaries on ecological issues in science and policy: Course

Commons A synopsis of Garrett Hardin's, Tragedy of the Commons (1968)
Community Awareness: Course goal
Comparing your purposes and mine assessing each other.
Compass and the Gyroscope, Kai Lee

Complexity

Complexity of nature and the biosphere

Concepts, what are they?
concepts to use

Concepts explained and tied to essays.
Conservation discussed.
Constitutional chronology.
Constitutional powers and Property Rights.
Consumption as a threat to global ecology

Course survival kit: a basic look at how to pass my class
Courses that I offer

Creation

Creation as a story of time

Criteria, defined

criteria used for grading your writing assignments Course related

Crosby, Alfred ecological historian looks at the greatest revolutionary accident in history

Crowley, Thomas on reality of global warming a statement of the facts from a reliable source

Cultural Landscape as an explanation of how settlement alters the terrain.
Cultural landscapes contrasted. with how places are understood.
Culture how the word has changed meaning in the last 150 years.
Culture as a focus of debate. contrasted with ideology and social meaning.
Culture, defined and discussed as an example of acquired traits of sof inheritance

Cybersex

Gallery Guide to images on this site
Gallery Guide to the Grand Canyon photographs
Galileo

Garden, importance of

Geertz, Clifford on ideology and culture

Gelbspan, Ross author of The Heat is On
Gell-Mann, Murray, discoverer of quarks

Genes

Gene gallery

Genetic resistance
Genetics the history of in brief
Genetics, topics on (index of)

Genetics, history of

Geological time, deep time
Gestalt Psychology.
Gestalt diagram of three world we inhabit simultaneously

Glacial melt as a signal of climate chaos and global warming
Global climate change
Global ecology, lessons of
Global population data compared
Global security and ecology, Kennedy and Dodds conclusions
Global warming

global warming frequently asked questions FAQs

Global Warming defined
Global Warming article synopsis
Global Warming guide to the site
Global warming recent bibliography, 2000-2005

Glossary of words used on this web site

Government sources of information for research
Grade Scale

Grand Canyon Dams -- The dates of or timeline about the controversy (1963-1968)

Grand Canyon Dams -- index to the controversy (1963-1968)

Grazing acreage or carrying capacity
Greek idea of nature (physis)
Greider, William

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Habitat, acronym for  is - Weal

Haiti, original changes in government,

Haitian Revolution, 2004; 200th anniversary retrospective

Hardin, Garrett, Tragedy of the Commons
Hardin, Commentary on commons, inevitability of outcomes is an element in tragedy
Hardin on Folly

Health of places, the Caribbean (Mintz) and Mexico (Paz; colonialism)
Historical Landscape
Historical methodology
History
History as an endeavor to recapture past landscapes.
History of Caribbean landscapes.
History of Science, syllabus

Home page for research
Hothouse

How Numbers can mislead you
How to find me during the semester.
Hub for the web site's focal areas with related subjects indexed.

Human Ecology
Human Genome and DNA research

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Ideas
Ideal versus real -- comparisons
Images and ideas.

Impact formulas (population and wealth)

Images
Information, what is it precisely?

input

Intelligence, multiple expressions of

Intelligence is described as a variety of educated responses to the world, people, places and things around you.
Interviewing people

I-PAT impact of population, affluence and technology on ecological systems

 

Kaku, Michio: author of Hyperspace

Keystone species, defined with some examples and an index to other sites
Kincaid, Jamaica author of A Small Place -- Antigua
Klamath River
Knowledge, a corpus or body of concepts
Kuhn, Thomas on scientific revolutions

Kyoto Protocol, described

Kyoto protocol, speech concerning

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Labor, defined
Labor models of

Labor Theory of Value The notion that the worth of anything is determined by the amount of time it takes to produce or refine the material.

Labyrinth of Solitude Octavio Paz's 1950 collection of Essays on identity and coexistence

Lake, The Lake as Microcosm. an analysis of Stephen Forbes, Lindemann's and Odum's concepts of energy and productivity relations in a confined space.

Land as a home page to related themed pages on the site

Land and Technology, Arnold Pacey on Meaning
Land, defined as an essential, or core ingredient in a model of ecological revolutions.
Land, defined as watershed The concept of unified landscape basins that receive and channel runoff from rainfall
Land Ethic A paragraph by paragraph analysis of Aldo Leopold's essay
Land of Little Rain, [OwensValley, California] by Mary Austin
Land system in USA The shape of the Jeffersonian land survey system (grid) in the countryside

Land's value Ecological Planning Method for evaluating the competing values in property

Landscape a focus of study. Notes on what experts have said about the national geography of the US

Landscape as altered by tools and technology.

Landscape and Memory, notes on the book by Simon Schama

Landscape, arid regions A look at the arid regions of the Western US

Latin American perspective on USA & modernity, O. Paz themes

Laws of ecology Three laws that explain why functional problems persist.

Learning styles

Learning:

Methodology
Methods: these are two related pages that discuss, examine in some detail and diagram the means we have from distinguishing facts from opinions. See also certainty, science, and vocabulary.
Model here is a schematic diagram of ecological relationships in any place.

Lecture format examined.

Lee, Kai: The Compass and the Gyroscope, notes on bounded rationality, civic science, and regional planning opportunities to solve ecological problems.
Legislation
Leopold's (Aldo) Land Ethic.

Leopold's Land Ethic this biologist conceived of terrain as alive, imbued with power and worthy of respect.
Life

Life Sciences

Limits, Garret Hardin's Living Within Limits about ecological constraints.
Living Downstream, an ecologist looks at cancer
Lovelock's Gaia Hypothesis

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• Maps of the United States
  
  • U. S. A. Physiographical regions & land-use patterns, energy and coastal density
    
  • U. S. A. satellite map- A physical and biological view
    
  • U. S. A. tectonic view of the world
• Maps of the World
  

Mayr, Ernst One Long Argument notes on this history of Darwinian ideas and significance of evolution.

Methods -- finding out what we do not know

Methodology -- the means by which we know things or establish the veracity of something

microcosm,

Mintz, Sydney, notes on the importance of sugar production and consumtion from 1650-1990.
model of capital accumulation
model of ecology applied to history Ecological history is a systemic and functional view of the past
Merchant's (Carolyn Merchant) model of ecological changes -- called Ecological Revolutions by this environmental historian
multiple intelligence, the concept of (book notes) Howard Gardner's description of a half dozen forms of intelligence other than being smart!

National Forests and Parks are often unhappy neighbors
Nature An essay on estrangement from the processes of the material world.

nature as an animate cosmos

Nature, original western concepts of and ancient debate over

Nature, the revolt of (notes on Max Horkheimer's essay)

Nature: an index to related sites about nature

Nature: three variant meanings traced to Greek roots

New evidence on human impacts generating Global Warming

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Occam's Razor

Office, hours and its location

Oklawaha River data

Olympic National Forest surrounds the Olympic National Park:

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
Oral presentations
Origin of Species (1859) Notes on the critical ideas and arguments in the books 12 chapters
Our Nation's Natural Heritage

On the Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin; notes on critical passages
One Long Argument, by Ernst Mayr, Mayr's diagram of Darwin's ideas
opposing words, antonyms -- a list of some!

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Pacey on technology and meaning

Papers, how to construct a good written essay

Paz, Octavio, author of a Labyrinth of Solitude

Paz compared to Mintz and Crosby's analysis of West Indian development
Paz, Labyrinth of Solitude's contents and connections to chapters
Paz, The Other Mexico,1968 the development of political and social demomocracy
Paz, PhilanthropicOgre, US Mexican Relationship in 1970s
Paz, Themes 1990s: Modernity, isolation, reconciliation and development
Paz, Themes in US and Latin American relations
Paz Mexican Intelligentsia
Paz, Present Day
Paz, Mexican Revolution
Paz, The Sons of LaMalinche
Paz, Colonialism and the conquest of the Indians

Octavio Paz, Labyrinth of Solitude, (index)

Personal sustainability measures
Photographic Memoir from around the world.
physis, Greek idea of material nature
Place, erotics of

Planet Earth
Plutonium, puzzle of An essay on understanding radiation and plutonium's radioactive decay
Poetry of purpose An Elegy

Population Data
Population growth in the USA during the 1990s.
Population impact formula : I = P * A * T or the consequences of population and technology on resources
Population momentum after 30 years!
Population of Florida
Preservation of natural resources.
Project for an Energy Efficient Florida: PEEF
Property
Property Rights and Constitutional powers.
Protection, environmental defined

Pursell on the history of technology and its power to reshape labor, power, time and space.

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Razor,Ockham's, the importance of avoiding pleonasm in your writing!

Reisner on Reclamation in the American West
Related discussions of forests:
Rendering of an ecological basis for human associations.
Research on the World Wide Web

resource flow

Revolt of nature Max Horkheimer's classic statement about the human assault on nature.

Revolution, political in Latin America
Revolution -- in France, 1789-1803,

scientific revolutions, Thomas Kuhn on
_______ scientific revolutions: the first use of the word in 1543 in the modern context.
River as a metaphor