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Lesson 1
Required Reading/Viewing
In addition to the written lesson, you should also read/view the following resources. Links are provided here as well as throughout the lesson. Transcripts for videos are available in the lesson.
- Introduction to Energy document, pp 8 - 9 (2 pages)
- What is Energy? video (4:35)
- Introduction to natural gas (1 page)
- Introduction to coal (1 page)
- Introduction to oil (1 page)
- Introduction to nuclear (1 page)
- How a Thermal Power Plant Works video (9:29)
- Solar (1 page)
- Wind (1 page)
- Wind Turbines video (2:16)
- Hydropower (1 page)
- Biomass (1 page)
- Biofuels (1 page)
- 300 Years of Fossil Fuels Video (5:38)
Optional Reading/Viewing
- Work as the Transfer of Energy video (3:16)
- Solar Photovoltaics video (2:00)
- Geothermal (1 page)
- Is Sustainability Still Possible?, Chapter 1 (16 pages)
- "What is Sustainability?", pp. 7-8 (2 pages)
Lesson 2
Required Reading/Viewing
In addition to the written lesson, you should also read/view the following resources. Links are provided here as well as throughout the lesson. Transcripts for videos are available in the lesson.
- Externalities Video (3:20)
- Externalities, by OECD (1 page)
- The Ecological Footprint Video (2:57)
- St. Matthew Island - Overshoot & Collapse (1 page)
- "Sustainable Growth, an Impossibility Theorem," by Herman Daly (4 pages)
- A Steady State Economy? Video (5:07)
- Robert F. Kennedy Video (2:11)
- What is Development? (4 pages)
- Human Development Index (1 page)
- Inequality-Adjusted HDI (1 page)
- These are the happiest countries in the world (1 page)
- Happy Planet Index Video (1:53)
- Happy Planet Index (1 page)
- Environmental Justice (4:33)
- China - World's dumping ground for Electronic Waste (4:03)
Optional Readings
- On Energy Subsidies and Externalities (1 page)
- Estimated Social Cost of Climate Change Not Accurate (1 page)
- Is Sustainability Still Possible?, Chapter 4 (12 pages)
- EROI for Different Fuels and the Implications for Society. (11 pages)
- Steady State Economy: Definition (1 page)
- How Sad; George Monbiot Does Not Realise That a Steady State Economy Is Not A No Growth Economy (2 pages)
- Myths and Reality (1 page)