&
Protecting the Planet
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
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
(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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