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Course Outline – REQUIRED READINGS
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DATE |
TOPIC |
READING |
DUE THIS DATE |
| 9/13 & 9/15 |
Introduction |
- *Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or
Succeed, Prologue & Chapter 1: "Modern Montana"
- *Di Meglio, "It's Getting Easier Being Green"
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| 9/20 & 9/22 |
Overview |
- *Goodstein, Tradeoff Myth: Fact and Fiction about Jobs and
the Environment, Chapter 7: "Fictions, Fact and Future"
- *Zimmerman, Science, Nonscience and Nonsense, Chapter
10: "Myths of the Technological Fix"
- *Heal, Nature and Marketplace, Preface and Chapter 1:
"Infrastructure and Earthkeeping"
- EOC, Chapter 1
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| 9/27 |
Environment as a Global Issue |
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| 9/29 |
Example of Climate Change |
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| 10/4 & 10/6 |
Environment & Economic Issues |
- *Pugh, Natural Capital and Human Economic Survival,
Chapter 1: "Origins of our Economic World View"
- *Heal, Nature and Marketplace, Chapter 2: "Basic
Economics"
- *Burger, Environment, "Tragedy of the Commons"
- EOC, Chapter 5
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Assignment 1 (10/4) |
| 10/11 & 10/13 |
Significance of Markets & Globalization |
- *Roodman, Natural Wealth of Nations, Chapter 1:
"Harnessing the Market"
- *Zadek, "Dangerous Curves"
- *HBR, "Environment and International Trade"
- EOC, Chapter 6
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| 10/18 & 10/20 |
Public Policy & Environment |
- *Diamond, Chapter 14: "Why do some societies make disastrous
decisions?
- *Barringer, New York Times, "Nations Ranked as
Protectors of the Environment", January 2005
- EOC, Chapter 7
- Calculate your Environmental Footprint at
www.myfootprint.org
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Assignment 2 (10/18) |
| 10/25 & 10/27 |
Public Policy (continued) |
- EOC, Chapter 10 and Chapter 11
- HBR, "Green and Competitive"
- *Kirchgaessner, Financial Times, "Utilities Hit at
Regulatory Fog", June 2005
- *Business Week Online, "Global Warming", August 2004
- *Revkin, New York Times, "Bush Aid Softened Greenhouse
Gas Links to Global Warming", 2005
- *Business and Environment, "Using Economic Incentives
to Control Pollution"
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| 11/1 & 11/3 |
Corporate Social Responsibility &
Beyond: Sustainability |
- EOC, Chapter 9
- *Korten, "Responsibility of Business to the Whole"
- *Diamond, Chapter 15: "Big Business and the Environment"
- *Murphy, Wall Street Journal Week,"Tree Huggers, Soy
Lovers and Profits"
- *Singer, "Perils of Doing the Right Thing"
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| 11/8 & 11/10 |
Business & Environmental Awareness |
- HBR, "Beyond Greening" (pages 105-129)
- HBR, "Bringing the Environment Down to Earth" (pages
137-50)
- HBR, "Recycling for Profit" (pages 169-199)
- C2C, Chapter 2
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Assignment 3 (11/8) |
| 11/15 & 11/18 |
Business & Environmental Awareness
(continued) |
- C2C, Chapter 1
- *Kranhold & Ball, "General Electric Plans Broad Push on Green
Issues"
- *CMA Management, "ISO 14000 - A Profitable Investment"
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| 11/22 |
Thanksgiving Break |
| 11/29 |
New Models |
- C2C, Chapter 3 and Chapter 4
- HBR, "A Road Map for Natural Capitalism" (pages 1-34)
- *Senge et al, "Innovating Our Way to the Next Industrial
Revolution
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| 12/1 |
Guest Speaker |
Paper |
| 12/6 |
New Models (continued) |
- C2C, Chapter 5 and Chapter 6
- *Smith, "Beyond Recycling: Manufactures embrace 'C2C' Design"
- Regional Examples
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| 12/8 |
Conclusion & Wrap up |
- *Diamond, Chapter 16: "The World as Polder"
- Regional Examples (continued)
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| 12/15 10:00 |
FINAL EXAM! |
Peer Review
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EOC = Ecology of Commerce
HBR = Harvard Business Review
C2C = Cradle to Cradle
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