University of Northern Iowa - Dr. Chad Heinzel
Natural Resources and Civilizations - UNIFI - Responsibility
Important handouts: 1. Syllabus , 2. PantherOvation, Ovation origin = a ceremony attending the entering of Rome by a general who had won a victory
Coursework
Week 1 - Earth & Civilization Systems: Growth, Survival, Collapse, Regrowth, Reading - The Atlantic, April 3, 2018 Was There a Civilization on Earth Before Humans? Video - below J. Diamond - Collapse discussion. Friday Quiz Example Questions , Sildes
Week 2 - Founding Principles - Reading = Wicked Problems , Watch = video below , Slides for week 2Quiz 2 prep questions
Week 3 - Egyptians to Romans - A historical perspective Slide deck 1 - Eygpt, Slide deck 2 - Rome
Week 4 - Native American environmental coexistence/reciprocity Listen to Robin Wall Kimmerer Podcast Read - Nature Sustainablity - Conservation Implications article March 2020, p. 241-246 , Quiz 4 Prep , Slides
Week 5 - Religion and Science – Linkages between the Earth and Humanity, Monday Slides , Listen by Wednesday Xavier Le Pichon
Week 6 - Minerals, rocks, gems and sediment, ‘If you cannot grow it then you must mine it’ Monday Slides, Reading/Listen - 1. New York Times article - 2017 Northern Minnesota, Two Economies Square Off: Mining vs Wilderness by Reid Forgrave AND 2. New York Times Daily Podcast, Sept. 16, 2022 - Promise and Peril at the Bottom of the Sea, 3. United States Geological Survey - Cellphone Handout Monday Slides , Quiz 6 prep
Week 7 - ‘Whiskey is for Drinking, Water is for Fighting’ – Mark Twain, in class documentary H2O the Molecule that Made Us Episode 2, Slides , In class and homework sheet
Week 8 - Soil, Plants and Relationships with Food: Hunting and Gathering to Agriculture - Reading - Soils and Civilizations , Watch (see below), Week 8 Work Assignment, Slides
Week 9 - Energy - Source of all change, Slides, Listen to this before Friday - A Wind Farm in Coal Country
Week 10 - Oceans, Climate and Natural Hazards, Slides , Listen to these before Friday - 1. On-being Kathrine Hayhoe - Our Future is Still in our Hands and 2. How Climate will Transform the USA- New York Times Sunday Read from ProPublica article
Week 11 - Art, Education and Sport , Slides , Week of choose your own related content week
Week 12 - Technology's role in Natural Resource Conservation, Listen: Podcast 1 Tools and Weapons by Brad Smith and Podcast 2 (from 8:30 to 1:01.30) Joe Rogan and Sebastain Junger , Slides
Week 13 - Natural resources role in social structures, economics, politics, and policy, Listen - Market Place Report - Black Rock, Slides
Week 14 - Fall Break
Week 15 - 16 Environmental Sustainability – building on individual and collective decisions , Slides