Questions and Topics We Can Help You To Answer:
Paper Instructions:
Peak Nature and the 6th Extinction. Respond to one of five below.
1. Where You At? (Fig 8.1 Pg 12 Peak Nature) Can you get a good score for where you live now, or have in the past? If so, write a short narrative of our environmental perception of [that] place.
http://www.postcarbon.org/publications/peak-nature/
2. Peak Nature Insight. Select a passage from Peak Nature, put in quotes in your post, and explain why you find it of interest, insightful, or important.
3. Ecosystem Services. Give an example how biodiversity can contribute to an ecosystem service that benefits humans. Why is it difficult to think of an example of a human activity that is an ecosystem service that benefits other wild species or the resilience of the ecosystem? Provide an example if you can.
4. Biodiversity/Ecosystem Concept Explain in your own words and/or provide examples of a Biodiversity or Ecosystem concept or phenomenon: ecosystem services, phenology, extinction crisis, invasive species, keystone species, ecological wounds (Michael Soule), trophic cascade, biodiversity 'Hotspots" (E.O. Wilson), rehabitating, Endangered Species Act, restoration, Gaia hypothesis (James Lovelock), others.
5. 6th Extinction. How can the impending 6th extinction be considered part of the Anthropocene. What can be done to avert or mitigate the 6th extinction on a local level. Provide an example.
Part B. Applying Ecological Economics on the Ground (Intro pdf) & Glossary (Handbook pdf/doc) (Joan Martinez-Alier)
Investigate one Ecological Economic concept or method introduced in "Applying Ecological Economics on the Ground' (e.g. Material Flow Analysis, Cost-Benefit Analysis) and further investigate by looking up in CEECEC Handbook Glossary.
Explain in briefly your own words an aspect of the EE concept or method you find interesting or insightful and why. Use quotes for text from reading. Relate to your selected Good Seed for the Antropocence. You can copy and paste from ePortfolio or vice versa.
LINKS:
https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/biodiversity/
https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdg15
http://www.ejolt.org/section/resources/glossary/
https://proxy.eplanete.net/galleries/broceliande7/node/1666/1666/pathway
Complex symbiotic ecosystms. How Trees Talk to Each Other. Suzane Simard Ted Talk
https://www.ted.com/talks/suzanne_simard_how_trees_talk_to_each_other?language=en [18 minutes)
The 6th Extinction Biodiversity loss [Watch]
PBS Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9gHuAwxwAs
Regeneration of Biodiversity [Watch]
Video: Sustainable Human: How Wolves Changed A River
Ecological Feedback Loops
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inVZoI1AkC8
