1. Images of Sustainable and Not… ENS102D February 3, 2005

2. Strategic Themes of Env. Science Sound Science Sustainability Stewardship

3. Strategic Theme 1: Theories DataShaping Principles Sound Science

4. Data DATA IS EMPIRICAL - GATHERED THROUGH THE SENSES A. OBSERVATIONS B. MEASUREMENTS C. EXPERIMENTATION

5. Shaping Principles SHAPING PRINCIPLES ARE THE CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS VALUES AND ASSUMPTIONS THAT WE BRING TO THE PROCESS OF SCIENCE. (WORLDVIEW) A. CULTURE B. BELIEFS C. INTUITION

6. Theories THEORIES ARE THE GOAL OF SCIENCE: TO DEVELOP SOME RATIONAL AND RELIABLE EXPLANATIONS OF THE WAY THE CREATION WORKS A. Objectivity B. Rationality C. Generality

7. Optimally "good" science... seeks to organize knowledge in a systematic way, endeavoring to discover patterns of relationship among phenomena and processes. strives to provide explanations for the occurrence of events. proposes explanatory hypotheses that must be testable, that is accessible to the possibility of rejection. attempts to subsume the vast diversity of the phenomena and processes of nature under a much smaller number of explanatory principles.

8. Strategic Theme 2: Sustainability The question from Wednesday: –Think about your "image" of the environment. Bring with you to class an "image" of a "sustainable" and a "non- sustainable" environment.

9. Your images biodomes good government windmills farming sun

10. Strategic Theme 2: Sustainability What is sustainability? –How might you begin to construct a definition of this strategic concept?

11. Strategic Theme 2: Sustainability What is sustainability? –Sustainability is… to keep in existence provide for all needs of the present not compromising the future needs balancing resource demands with supply leaving the world better than we found it

12. Strategic Theme 3: Stewardship What is stewardship? –How might you begin to construct a definition of this strategic concept? good use and not wasting ethic taking care of responsibility God

13. Strategic Theme 3: Stewardship What is stewardship? –Stewardship is…

14. Images of Sustainable and Not… What are the major images of environmental problems in our world today? –In groups use your text to find what Wright thinks is the answer to this question. –Then go to the web and see what you can find as the major "images" of environmental problems in the "google" perspective. –Post your group's top 10 in the discussion area of Blackboard.

15. Images of Sustainable and Not… The top 10…. –Global warming –toxic chemicals –pollution –loss of biodiversity –overpopulation –water supplies –water/air pollution –rain forest loss The top 10…. –ozone depletion –bird flu –fossil fuel depletion –excessive waste affluenza

16. For Monday Read Wright Chapter 12 - Energy from fossil fuels