Plants In Human Affairs

2011 Sustainability Course Development Fellowship recipients announced

This year's recipients are Catherine Tucker, associate professor, Department of Anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences, with "Exploring the Challenges of Sustainability: Ecology & Society"; and Scott Shackelford, assistant professor, Department of Business Law and Ethics, Kelley School of Business, with "Sustainability Law & Policy."

"These two projects show the incredible range of topics and problems that are connected to sustainability," said Tom Gieryn, vice provost for faculty and academic affairs. "Professors Tucker and Shackelford should be commended for developing exciting courses that will give their students opportunities to wrestle with real-world problems of immense magnitude."

Catherine Tucker's proposal, "Exploring the Challenges of Sustainability: Ecology & Society," focuses on the development of a new undergraduate anthropology course introducing students to the complex and pragmatic challenges (and potential) of creating a sustainable society, from local to global levels. Students will identify global environmental issues relevant to the IU campus and the surrounding area using activities and mini-research projects exploring their economic and social ramifications. Themes for projects will include energy generation, use, and its costs; waste management, recycling, and reducing consumption; water use and management; urbanization/exurbanization and environmental degradation; food consumption, food waste and local food movements; and climate change, extreme weather events, and human responses. The projects will be built around the conundrums and challenges identified for each theme, encouraging students to think about how they define, recognize and respond to sustainability puzzles with quantitative or qualitative assessment of economic, environmental and social costs, as well as individual and cultural preferences and values. Scott Shackelord's proposal, "Sustainability Law & Policy," focuses on the development of a 300-level course that will provide students with a basic working knowledge of sustainability and environmental law and policy in particular, focusing on the U.S. but put in a global perspective. The course will be designed to help students appreciate the important relationship between law, ethics, business, and the natural environment and to encourage them to think critically about how best to manage these relationships. Core course content will include U.S.

Windham County: People and plants

This is no minor feature of human psychology.  There is an enormous industry devoted to breeding, propagating, growing and selling cut flowers and flowering plants.  It's even profitable to fly cut flowers from Chile to New York.  Consider the importance of something so ephemeral to the weightiest of human affairs, from romance to mourning. There is no shortage of plant life at my estate -- looking out the window I see a riot of green.  Our ancestors on the African savanna would have seen flowers occasionally, but seldom if ever anything as showy as the ornamentals we have developed through centuries of selective breeding.  So this isn't taking us back to some primal memory; nor are flowers particularly indicative of any related reward, at least not until fruit is ripe weeks or months later.  We just like them.

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