“Imagining Other…”

 

& Protecting the Planet

 

Ian Pirie’s website.

 

 

There is a widespread awareness of the crisis facing the natural environment. Since retirement, my activities are increasingly devoted to this, as a tutor for the Workers’ Educational Association (WEA), through Friends of the Earth (Havering *), and in guest lectures.

 

(i) Online WEA course May 2021“Protecting the Planet”:

 

           Week:

1:                Introduction                  Week 1 Updates and extra notes

2:               Some key industries (notes on air pollution) and: Case studies: air, soil, bees (Air pollution solutions, notes on soil & bees)

Week 2 Updates and extra notes

3:               Plastics and waste          Week 3 Updates and extra notes

4.                Species decline               Week 4 Updates and extra notes

5.                Global warming: causes and controversy

6:                Global warming: effects Week 6 Updates and Extra Notes

7:                Energy policies     Energy policies extra notes

8:                The environment movement

 

Additional notes: Strategies for change      'Dark money': chart of think-tanks

 

 

               

(ii) WEA & Wellcome Trust online course: “ ‘Wellcome’... to the Science of Protecting the Planet”:

          

   Week:

                   1:               Introduction - a growing awareness of environmental problems

                   2:                Industries.   And:         Some case studies: (air pollution, soil, bees)

                   3:                Plastics      

4:                Biodiversity and species decline

                   5:                Causes of global warming

                   6:                Effects of global warming

 

 

 

(iii) Talks and Guest Lectures:

 

 

Guest Lectures for London School of Management Education:               Our Responsibility for Our Environment (1) (Friday 1st March 2019)

                                                                                                                                     

                                                                                                                                      Plastics - the Big Picture   (Friday 24th May 2019 & Tues 3rd March 2020).

 

                                                                                                                       

(iv) (*) Friends of the Earth:

 

Introductory talk on Friends of the Earth (for U3a, and Harwood Probus):            Friends of the Earth 

 

 

FaceBook page for Havering Friends of the Earth: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1652661825047271/?ref=bookmarks

 

 

 

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There are two more sections to the ‘imagining other’ web pages:

 archive of previously taught courses             'imagining other' - an explanation

 

The ‘previously taught courses’ are notes on lecturing done over nearly 40 years (1966 – 2005) at the University of East London (UEL), and the notes cover mainly political philosophy (including my own views), and the study of social movements.

 

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Comments on these pages are welcome, to ian_michael_pirie@btinternet.com

 

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