Basics

1 p.m. section:

Time and Place:

Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, 1:00-1:50, Pepper Canyon 122

Fridays, 2-2:50, York 2622

Instructor: Sarah Gille   e-mail:  sgille@ucsd.edu.

Office hours on upper campus: Mondays, 2-3:30, 568 EBU2. phone: 858-822-4915. Also available before and after class and by e-mail.

Office at Scripps: Nierenberg Hall 348. phone: 822-4425. (Let me know that you're coming before stopping by.)

TA: Robb Kulin    E-mail: rkulin@ucsd.edu. Office hours: Wednesdays, 12-12:50, 262 EBU2 or by appointment

Reader: Erik Tang    E-mail: eetang@ucsd.edu.

2 p.m. section:

Time and Place:

Mondays and Wednesdays, 2:00-2:50, WLH 2111

Fridays, 12-12:50, WLH 2205

Fridays, 2-2:50, York 2622

Instructor: Steve Taylor   e-mail:  sttaylor@ucsd.edu.

Office hours on upper campus: TBD.   Also available before and after class and by e-mail.

TA: Ben Maurer   E-mail: bmaurer@ucsd.edu.

Midterm Exam: Friday, May 2, 2 pm.

Final Exam: 1 pm section and 2 pm section:  Thursday, June 12, 11:30-2:30, Pepper Canyon Hall 109
Please note that the final exam coincides with the US Open at Torrey Pines, so allow extra time to negotiate traffic. The final exam will be held as scheduled. In accordance with UCSD policy, no allowance willb e granted for students arriving late to an exam.

Please note that university policy does not allow you to reschedule exams for personal reasons.

Announcements

Detailed schedule, reading and term paper assignments

Special events pertinent to this class

Class themes in the news

Interesting older news items

WebCT: access to materials for enrolled students use only (such as copyrighted materials)

Turnitin instructions

Internships

Term Papers and Exams can be picked up from from Pamela Buass in the ESYS program office (Galbraith Hall, Room 185, That's below CLICS). Pam's summer hours are from 9:30 - 3:30, and her phone number is 858-822-4604. If she's not available Caren Duncanson (858-534-8157) should be able to help you out. (In the past we've left exams with the administrative assistant in EBU-II who handles environmental engineering, but she's working very limited hours this summer.)

Aims

Objectives

• The major environmental problems that need to be addressed to ensure sustainable development;
• The central roles played by market forces, technological innovation and governmental intervention;
• Engineering and design approaches to take into account, and minimize the environmental impacts of industrial activity;
• Environmental aspects of specific industrial sectors, such as energy, transport, land and water use, and the built environment.

Syllabus

• Brown, Lester R., Plan B 3.0:  Mobilizing to Save Civilization (2008), Norton. Available at the bookstore ($17) or for free download: http://www.earth-policy.org/Books/PB3/Contents.htm

• Articles, as listed on the class schedule.

The course consists of two parts.

• The first half of the course will focus on assessing the environmental problems that modern societies face.
  
• The second half of the course will look at strategies for sustainability.
  

Here's the detailed schedule.

Other links

Grading Policy

Past Exams

Library resources:  Struggling with access to the journal Science or other journal literature? UCSD has a subscription to Science and to many other journals relevant to this class. You should be able to access these library resources from any computer on campus, or from home if you use the UCSD proxy server or VPN. See here for details.

Over time, assignments, and other resources will be posted here. You will need a (free) Adobe Acrobat reader to view many of the files, which may be downloaded from here. Please check back frequently, as much of the assigned work will expect significant research on environmental issues, some of which will be facilitated by suggested links and resources posted here.