Useful Links
UI Blackboard course website www.blackboard.uidaho.edu
To
access Dale Bosworth's
keynote presentation for the celebration of 100 years of forestry education at
the University of Idaho (September 11, 2009), click on the following link:
http://mediasite.for.uidaho.edu/mediasite5/Viewer/?peid=ca170e85dca34d63a68308b063732393
University of Idaho policy
on Academic Dishonesty (incl. plagiarism)
http://www.students.uidaho.edu/default.aspx?pid=56186
CNR policy on Plagiarism
http://www.cnr.uidaho.edu/forres/Academics/plagiarism.asp
Global Footprint Network
http://www.footprintnetwork.org
Environmental information websites
Environment and Society Internet Resource Guide
Environmental Education Network
Natural Resources Research Information Page
NOAA website: http://www.csc.noaa.gov/mpass/
Millenium Ecosystem Assessment (2005)
E-news services specializing in environmental issues (some are free)
http://www.tidepool.org/home.html
http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org
http://www.caprep.com/index.htm
http://www.noaa.gov/research.html
http://www.headwatersnews.org (environmental and other news)
Listserves
ECOLOG-L: Ecological Society of America: grants, jobs, news
LANDTRUST: Land Trust Alliance
RIVERNET-INFO: River Network's mailing list
UNION of CONCERNED SCIENTISTS: Links to research and news
The Future
Bureau of
labor, occupational outlook:
http://www.bls.gov/oco/oco2003.htm
Personal
lifestyle: 10 sustainability steps
http://www.sustainabletucson.org/what-you-can-do/top-10/
Ten ways to prepare for a post-oil society by James Howard Kunstler
http://www.sustainabletucson.org/2007/02/ten-ways-to-prepare-for-a-post-oil-society/
Environmental History
What has
happened in the past in America Love Canal-
http://www.epa.gov/history/topics/lovecanal/01.htm
William
Cronon, Environmental Historian
Land Ethic- Visual of Leopold�s Land Pyramid: http://web.rollins.edu/~jsiry/smecopyr.jpg
PBS, The National Parks, America�s Best Idea: http://www.pbs.org/nationalparks/
Climate change
The
science background: the carbon cycle (good pictures, examples)
http://www.seed.slb.com/subcontent.aspx?id=3788
The Climate Challenge
http://www.seed.slb.com/flash/science/features/earth/climate/en/challenge/index.htm?width=730&height=550&popup=true
http://forio.com/simulation/climate-development/index.htm
Matt Savinar- common question, answers, discussions, solutions to our oil situation.
http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/
Alternative profits: alternative energy solutions; http://www.altprofits.com/
Population, Natural Resources, Distribution
National Geographic Earth Pulse- explores global trends & provides statistics
http://earthpulse.nationalgeographic.com/earthpulse/index.html
Footprint Measurements
University of Idaho-
www.greenreportcard.org/report-card.../university-of-idaho
Ecological footprint-
www.footprintnetwork.org
Management
Ecotipping points projects: http://www.ecotippingpoints.org/our-stories.html
Global
stories about forestry, fisheries, insects, wildlife, etc.
Videos
Dot Earth-http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/science/20071024_DOTEARTH_FEATURE/index.html
A examination of our energy consumption that provides solutions to how you can positively do something about it.
Blind Spot-http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/blind_spot
A documentary film that illustrates the current oil and energy crisis that our world is facing. Whatever measures of ignorance, greed, wishful thinking, we have put ourselves at a crossroad, which offers two paths with dire consequences. If we continue to burn fossil fuels we will choke the life out of the planet and if we don�t our way of life will collapse.
Why Societies Collapse- Jarod Diamond
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jared_diamond_on_why_societies_collapse.html
The Future of Food- www.hulu.com/watch/67878/the-future-of-food
Al Gore-
New Thinking on the Climate Crisis
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/al_gore_s_new_thinking_on_the_climate_crisis.html
Dr. Suess brilliance, The Lorax
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6650219631867189375#
Bioethics: For
Jason Johnstone-Yellin's lecture on Bioethics (Fall 2007), click on the
following link -
http://mediasite.for.uidaho.edu/mediasite5/SilverlightPlayer/Default.aspx?peid=d2270fa275414e5788b66c5560c085eb
Jobs in Natural Resources
Check: Natural Resources Jobs
According to the Environmental Careers Organization (ECO), dramatic growth in the job market has been fueled by...
- New laws and regulations, which: create compliance responsibilities and government
employment; result in the purchase and management of public land; require the distribution
of grants and loans; and create an industry of advocates and analysts who monitor these
laws and educate the public.
- Economics and the marketplace, which increasingly reward or create incentives for
business practices that protect the environment.
- Environmental values, as evidenced by the increased popularity, budgetary capacity, and
membership of organizations related to conservation and the environment, which received
over $4 billion in charitable contributions in 1997.
- Technology, which is altering the job market by eliminating the need for certain types of jobs while creating new opportunities for those who are skilled in both using and creating new technologies.