In our class, we did a unit on environmental justice.The labs focused on analyzing environmental justice in Portland can be viewed here. In that lab we attempted to draw connections between the location of people of different income groups and the prevalence of certain air toxics in Portland. Over the course of the cities history, … Continue reading Triple Divide and Environmental Justice
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Retail and the manufacturing of textiles are two of the largest industries in the world. Almost all people have the need for clothes and most of those people need a place to buy them. The market for clothes is shared by every country on Earth. According to Marketline, a database for statistics related to industry, … Continue reading Textile Terror: Or Environmental Impacts of the Textile and Apparel Retail Industries
Steffen Seamon, Simon Cohen Date of Inquiry: November 29, 2018 Here is a link to our project on the urban-ocene. At the start of lab this week, we decided to refine our focus question. We made our question more specific so that it would be answerable through our research. Our new focus question is: How … Continue reading Situated Research Progress 2
The purpose of our project is to get a better understanding of urbanization by studying the impacts of urban intensification in the cities of Japan. Urbanization has occurred across the globe for the purpose of advancing industry and modernizing a nation. Like most of the world, Japan’s urbanization has taken place within the last century. … Continue reading Situated Research Progress
Steffen Seamon and Simon Cohen Lab Group: Steffen Seamon, Simon Cohen Date of Inquiry: 11-15-18 _ocene Lab Week 11 Background We have chosen to examine how intense urbanization has shaped the relationship between people and their environments in the modern day. Our project is situated in Japan, as it is a country both of us … Continue reading Week 11 Lab Report
My concentration focuses on architecture and its ability to structure urban environments in ways that minimize negative effects that cities put on the environment. In Portland, there are a number of buildings that have been built or retrofitted to meet established sustainability standards. Some of these, like Natural Capital Center, can be read about further … Continue reading The Portland Trail Blazers’ Efforts to Reduce Their Environmental Impacts
Summary Architecture shapes urban areas just as those urban areas create the needs for specific types of architectural design. According to the United Nations, 55% of people currently live in urban areas and by 2050 they expect 68% of people to live in urban areas (“68% of the World Population Projected to Live in Urban … Continue reading Concentration – Architecture’s Capability to Restructure Built Environments
Lab Group: Steffen Seamon, Simon Cohen Date of Inquiry: 11-11-18 Capitalocene Lab Week 10 Background This week acted as our final investigation into the capitalocene. In the previous three weeks we investigated the capitalocene and its effects on a global scale. We analyzed country-wide and regional data in an attempt to establish trends relating wealth … Continue reading Week 10 Lab Report
This semester in Global Environmental History with professor Andrew Bernstein we read The Lost Wolves of Japan by Brett L. Walker. The book is a history of wolves in Japan and their extinction due to the modernization of the country during the Meiji period (1968-1912). The book focuses a lot on human relations with wolves … Continue reading Wolves and the Meiji Restoration
Lab Group: Steffen Seamon, Simon Cohen Date of Inquiry: 10-18-18 Capitalocene Lab Week 9 Background In the ninth week of our lab, we continued to analyze the possible effects and validity of the capitalocene. The first and second weeks of our lab included look at Yale Environmental Performance Indicators (EPI) and World Bank statistics to … Continue reading Week 9 Lab Report
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