AMS 1E

Garbage Land by Liz RoyteMethod for preventing water pollution; leachate (water that has percolated through a solid and leached out some of the constituents; contains toxins and dissolved metallic ions; wet garbage/want dry) is collected from garbage & injected back into source to speed up decomposition and stabilize waste; makes moist; bacteria feed on waste and releases methane more quickly; helps landfill but negative when leaks and pollutes; not commonly used because $$$ (leak detection liners)

The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan (Desire: Sweetness / Plant: Apple)Each apple seed has it's own genetic contents; if planted by seed hardly look like parents with own extreme distinct variety; opposite of grafting (ancient technique of cloning trees; take section of stem with leaf buds and insert it into the stock of the tree)

The World Without Us by Alan Weisman (Chp 9 Polymers are Forever)Texas-sized span of ocean between Hawaii and California with perennial, slowly rotating high-pressure vortex of hot equatorial air that inhales wind; Capt.

Charles Moore; sailing through is like pushing through ice berg but with a bunch of trash (90% plastic); from littering of commercial ships and navies but mostly from landfills (80%);

The Story of Stuff by Annie Leonard (Video)Opposite of planned obsolescence ("designed for the dump"; stuff made too be useless quickly aka coffee cups or cameras); perceived is throw away stuff still useful cuz "not cool"; change how it looks so everyone notices your not up to date aka iphones or computers, even fashion

The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan (Desire: Control / Plant: The Potato)Make every crop the same; stops evolution of plant; very prone to insects, weeds, and disease; powerful simplification of modern agriculture aka reconfigure nature as a machine except vulnerable to the vicissitudes of nature; root of every problem for modern farmers; either use a lot of pesticides or genetically modified crops; Russet Burbank potato (Mc Ds); Pollan says no monoculture;

The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan (Desire: Control / plant: Potato)Incas grew diverse potatoes by experimentation under inauspicious conditions; made spud for every environment; Ireland 1840's one potato wind spread fungal spore by ship turned all potatoes black Irish had to flee to America; famine

The World Without Us by Alan Weisman (Hot Legacy)Time for half the radioactive nuclei in any sample to undergo radioactive decay

Ecocentric Land Ethnic (lecture)Ecologist; father of wilderness management; wrote a book about humanities relationship to natural world but died of a heart attack fighting off a neighbors fire one week after knowledge that book would be published April 1948; most influential conservation thinker of the twentieth century; Land Ethnic connects humans to species and land; community should enlarge to include non-human elements; refer land as a commodity (abuse)

The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan (Desire: Intoxication / Plant: Marijuana)brains personal endorphin; our own personal THC we make in our brain; cannabinoid (aka THC; chemicals that act on cells that repress neurotransmitter in brain) help to forget, pain relief; want to utilize anandamide for PTSD; Raphael Mechoulam discovered THC in cannabis in 1960s

The World Without Us by Alan Weisman (Hot Legacy)Reactor #4 blew in Ukraine in 1986; nuclear energy made of uranium (bad); chemicals went everywhere; birds came back with mutated offspring but didnt last the winter; workers came back to block core from reaching groundwater and drank vodka to prevent radiation sickness (fail); nuclear waste dump (Zone of Alienation); if no nuclear energy than fossil fuels but running out

The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan (Desire: Sweetness / Plant: Apple)Worlds largest collection of apple trees (Plant Genetic Resources Unit); very diverse with color & leaves & branching; Geneva Orchid (museum of apple's golden age in America); evolutionary opportunity; each apple took up substance of America (soil, climate, light, human desires) ie became what an apple in America is

Ecocentric Land Ethic Lecturenature centered values instead of human centered; What we say influences what we see ; hear ; taste; see world as ecosphere where all living thing co-evolve with non-living natural environment

Garbage Land by Elizabeth Royte (Satan's Risen)Founded by beverage companies & packaging executives in 1953 after media ad cans "throwaways"; "put litter in it's place"; Crying Indian 1971 ("iconic symbol of environmental responsibility") individuals not the corporations responsible for the trash; littered beverage cans everywhere; does cleanup but ignores recycling and repackaging ideas

The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan (Desire: Sweetness / Plant: Apple)Apollo: god of reason and rational; Dionysus: god of irrational and chaos; In apple Johnny Appleseed portrayed Dionysus my randomly spreading seeds unlike the Apollonian citizen; Marijuana compared with this; also in Potato chapter (human Apollonian law (New Leaf) and order and natures inclination to Dionysus chaos)

Blue Vinyl Video by Judith Helfand & Daniel GoldPolyvinyl chloride is nickname for vinyl; found in so many products; has a lot of thermoplastic chemicals like chlorine; releases mercury; forms dioxin (carcinogen; affect reproductive, immune, endocrine, neruo); workers exposed and getting lung cancer; death

The Story of Stuff by Annie Leonard (video)

The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollen (Desire: Intoxication / Plant: Marijuana)Sativa is type of cannabis that works poorly outside equatorial regions; cant withstand frost; bad in northern latitudes; grows 15 ft tall; Indica (Afghani) is tolerant to frost from central Asia; grows 4-5ft tall; short & rounder leaves; more potent; cross smooth taste & clear bell high (sativas) with superior potency & hardiness (indica) = the great revolution in cannabis genetics (1980); good for indoor domestic growth; also example of Control

The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan (Desire: Control / Plant: Potato)A natural toxin that genetically modifies potatoes to have it; NewLeaf potato; killed Colorado Beetle; Monsanto created NewLeaf; Companies were required and therefore didnt state their potatoes had it; people found out and about GMOs; had to remove it from market

The World Without Us by Alan Weisman (Polymers Are Forever)Raw materials of plastic production found along beaches from factories carried by wind and tide (evidence its getting in our water and food supplies) with evidence being no factories around; have not broken down yet; effect ecosystem; animals digest and become sick or die

The World Without Us by Alan Weisman (Hot Legacy)Waste Isolation Pilot Plant; operating since 1999; boneyard for detritus from nuclear weapons and defense research permanently; golds 6.2 mill cubic feet of waste; holds objects that has nuclear wast on them or a "low" waste;after 5 yrs = more than 20% full; radioactivity as long as half life; $$$ to clean up; fire could eventually reach and cause radioactives into air and spread of hazards

The Story of Stuff by Annie LeonardReal cost of making stuff is not captured in the price; aren't really paying for the stuff we buy; workers/kids paid w/ loss of clean air = cancer in other countries; don't benefit from the transaction; company owners externalize the true cost of production; ex: company cuts down Forest Service land, company gets immediate profit and society bears long term cost; corporations aren't charging you for the labor that really went into to making the product

The World Without Us by Alan Weisman (Hot Legacy) AND Blue Vinyl VideoChlorofluorocarbons aka Freon; man-made chlorine in refrigeration; after 1930s put Freon on everything like inhalers, aerosol cans, disposable coffee cups, & running shoes; 1985 Joe Farman discovered part of the sky was missing; chlorine was dissolving our UV screen; if we stop using these hopefully heal by 2060 but $$$

Wild Earth by Time Butler (Contact and the Solid Earth by Christopher Manes)We don't recognize the importance of a meaningful relationship with more than human world; we don't even experience our poor relationship in person we experience it through tv or online

A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold (The Land Ethic)Stop seeing land as strictly a economic problem;

Wild Earth by Tim Butler (Returning to Our Animal Senses by David Abram)we need to remember senses are important; when acknowledge sensory experience it renews the bond between our bodies and the breathing earth; Professor Smith: "I highly recommend being naked in nature"