Room 611: Tuesday, September 10. 2019

Today's schedule is CDAB

C & D Blocks Environmental and Social Sciences -In C (with Young in 115) we'll look at access to fresh clean potable water. Humans must drink potable water, however water scarcity, poor water quality and inadequate sanitation negatively impact food security, livelihood choices and educational opportunities for poor families across the world. At the current time, more than 2 billion people are living with the risk of reduced access to freshwater resources and by 2050, at least one in four people is likely to live in a country affected by chronic or recurring shortages of fresh water. We'll look at the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal # 6 Ensure access to water and sanitation for all

We'll try to make some advocacy campaign posters in the class this week...Water not only as a Human Right but "Water for All"

In D (with Benton in 145), you'll look at what is in freshwater? - looking at a sample water analysis from CARO labs, metals, anions, alkalinity, etc. Comparison to Health Canada limits for specific water uses, drinking, irrigation, etc. Lab Component: examine water samples and test for pH, colour and turbidity.

A Block Physical Geography - To start, we'll review systems, feedback, equilibrium, and thresholds. After, we'll move on to geographic spheres within the Earth system (the Lithosphere, the Atmosphere, the Biosphere and the Hydrosphere). After a few notes, you'll need to look at figure 1.8 (p.13) and figure 1.9 (p.14) in the Geosystems book and try to interpret the relationships among the four spheres as a result of humans burning fossil fuels. If you're having trouble with this consider the carbon cycle (pages 634-5 in text) or look at Earth Observatory Carbon Cycle from NASA. You could also look at Annenberg Media's "The Habitable Planet" Carbon Cycling website. For more help with positive and negative feedback loops take a look at Chapter 2 of Gerry Martin's on line Human Ecology textbook.

The Carbon Cycling Game
For more on Spheres check out:
Earth System Science in a Nutshell @SERC
Earth Systems Interactions

B Block Human Geography - Today we are going to look at the Key Question: Why Are Different Places Similar? To do this we will look at Globalization in terms of culture and economy. Increasingly uniform cultural preferences produce uniform “global” landscapes of material artifacts and of cultural values. Underlying the uniform cultural landscape is globalization of cultural beliefs and forms, especially religion and language. Globalization of the economy has been led primarily by transnational corporations, sometimes called multinational corporations. Every place in the world is part of the global economy, but globalization has led to more specialization at the local level. Each place plays a distinctive role, based on its local assets. So, you'll have a few questions to work on for me today including:

In what ways has the communications revolution played a role in globalization?
Why might some group(s) of people oppose globalism or globalization?

To help:
we are going to look at the Key Question: Why Are Different Places Similar? To do this we will look at Globalization in terms of culture and economy. Increasingly uniform cultural preferences produce uniform “global” landscapes of material artifacts and of cultural values. Underlying the uniform cultural landscape is globalization of cultural beliefs and forms, especially religion and language. Globalization of the economy has been led primarily by transnational corporations, sometimes called multinational corporations. Every place in the world is part of the global economy, but globalization has led to more specialization at the local level. Each place plays a distinctive role, based on its local assets. So, you'll have a few questions to work on for me today including: