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Students ride the rails in this course to learn about sustainability and tourism by Mark Alan Rhodes II, Assistant Professor of Geography, Michigan Technological University.
Dendrochronology by Robert Moor.
The Wonder Waller by Kristie De Garis.
Millan Millan and the Mystery of the Missing Mediterranean Storms by Rob Lewis.
The weeds are winning by Douglas Main.
The joy of clutter by Matt Alt. "The world sees Japan as a paragon of minimalism. But its hidden clutter culture shows that ‘more’ can be as magical as ‘less’." With joyfully cluttered photographs.
The First Virtual Meeting Was in 1916 by Allison Marsh. "The amazing feat linked up 5,100 engineers from Atlanta to San Francisco"
What does the course explore?
Over the course of three weeks, students visit six locations, with overnight train rides between each ranging from 16-24 hours. The days are broken up into lessons on observing landscape and land use, sustainable tourism and urban deindustrialization, with at least an hour of class time on each train ride.
Dendrochronology by Robert Moor.
I had read enough forest ecology to know that this chaotic arrangement of forms—a density and diversity of shapes, sizes, and shades that no painter would ever even attempt to capture—belied a deeper order. I was looking not at a site of decay, but of growth—the luxuriant, slow accumulation of something at once resilient and frighteningly fragile.
The Wonder Waller by Kristie De Garis.
‘Fully immersed in my conversation with the land, I began to notice the drystone, and running my hands over the rough, Perthshire fieldstone walls, I felt that same quietude I’d known as a child.’
Millan Millan and the Mystery of the Missing Mediterranean Storms by Rob Lewis.
Suddenly, parts of the climate you couldn’t see before appear. In addition to the atmosphere, you now see the landscapes around you and the soil beneath your feet, not as helpless victims, but as active drivers of this thing we call climate. Not only that, but you see that at one point, not too long ago, science looked at the climate in just such a manner.
The weeds are winning by Douglas Main.
Herbicide resistance is a predictable outcome of evolution, explains Patrick Tranel, a leader in the field of molecular weed science at the University of Illinois, whose lab is a few miles from the South Farm. “When you try to kill something, what does it do? It tries to not be killed,” Tranel says.
The joy of clutter by Matt Alt. "The world sees Japan as a paragon of minimalism. But its hidden clutter culture shows that ‘more’ can be as magical as ‘less’." With joyfully cluttered photographs.
The First Virtual Meeting Was in 1916 by Allison Marsh. "The amazing feat linked up 5,100 engineers from Atlanta to San Francisco"