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EA May |
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EA May is a recent tradition in the Environmental Analysis Program. EA takes a passionate group of students and faculty on a two week road trip to a region of the country to explore its environmental issues, success and failures. The goal is to bring together students and faculty in an outside-of-class setting to study environmental issues first hand.
Any EA student can come although the student population has been mostly upperclassmen in the past. We encourage all interested faculty to come along even those not yet affiliated with the EA department.
For more information about EA May contact Richard Hazlett, the coordinator of EA.
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Tentative Plan for May 2008 |
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The Southern Great Plains: Failures and Successes of Agronomy
Driving through No Man’s Land and the Dust Bowl country we plan to critically test the following quote of Canadian ecologist David Suzuki, “Many organic practices simply make sense, regardless of what overall agricultural system is used. Far from being a throwback to an earlier time, organic agriculture is proving to be a serious contender in making farming a more organically sustainable system over the long term.”
To inform this inquiry we will take a look at the corn ethanol industry, make a visit to Wes Jackson’s Institute, and hold meetings with authorities dealing with the legal, agronomic and hydrological situation of the region.
Contact Richard Hazlett, the EA coordinator, if you are interested in attending or helping to plan the EA May 2008.
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May 2005 |
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The State of California's Environment: Past, Present and Future
In 14 days we drove by car all the way from Claremont, CA to Yosemite National Park and back down exploring issues of land use, the perspectives of Native American groups and history of the region since colonization by the Spanish.
Two British guests provided an European perspective on the environmental state of California, the world's Fifth Biggest Economy, from both the student and faculty level. Dr. Addison from Oxford is a respected authority on climate change who provided us with insights on what global warming would mean for California's agricultural systems and water supply.
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