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Presentation Data: December 4, 2019

Syllabus

Class exercise

Undergrad lecture

Theme: What is your contemporary and ancestral relationship with Green Infrastructure (GI) and water at home.

Assignment: Bring a picture that represents your relationship to plants and water.

 

Introduction-

• Traditional scientific methods are not working to mitigate environmental risks of today.
• Submit Class Planification

 

• Slides for scenario/ questions to guide.
  • Slide
    • NYC water infrastructure
  • Questions
    • What if NYC water turns off?
      • Photo of thirsty people/ dooms day
      • Questions about how they would solve the problem?
        • Examples:
          • Flint Michigan
          • Bolivia water crisis
          • Cape town
        • Slide
          • The importance of bees
        • Questions
          • What if the bees died?
            • Examples:
              • Bees disappearing and then returning.
              • Letting lawn grow attract more bees- citation
            • Groups
              • Ask the question
            • Validation of their relationship of both plants and water in both scientific and non-scientific ways

Conclusion

Did this exercise cause you to think about GI and water differently?

How did your approach differ from the others in your group?

 

Grad Lecture-Pedagogy

Alternative methods of lecture

Bibliography- for methods used.

• Non-traditional knowledge
• Think critically about the crisis
• Exercise:
  • Family relationship with earth (GI) and water
  • Your personal relationship with

 

 

Science and non-science binary colonialism

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