Reading Assignments
Lecture #1- January 14 Required Reading
Climate Change and Human Health
by Paul R. Epstein, M.D., M.P, H.
Required Readings for Field Trip to Port Townsend:
(Field trip dates to be determined)
Port Townsend Paper Mill
Public Health Dept.- Pollution of Hood Canal: problems of Development, waste-water treatment; and OSS.
http://www.doh.wa.gov/SBOH/Meetings/Meetings_2005/2005-07_13/documents/Tab10e-OSS_SigAnalysis.pdf
(Read Executive Summary and as much of the full report as you are interested in)
Hospital- Problem of Medical and Pharmaceutical Wastes
Ecovillage, Permaculture and Your Ecological Footprint
Ecological Footprint (Please calculate your ecological footprint using the first URL; the second URL provides background that you might find interesting)
http://www.myfootprint.org/
http://www.redefiningprogress.org/footprint/
Global Ecovillage Network
http://gen.ecovillage.org/
Permaculture
http://www.attra.org/attra-pub/perma.html#principles