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Events Schedule Week 14

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Here is the schedule for the coming week

      • Monday 4/20,  2:30 – 3:20, Class – Unit 4.3
      • Monday 4/20,  4:00-5:00, Kaley Weinstein’s office hour and tech support (101 McAllister)
      • Tuesday 4/21 3:30-4:30, Sara Jamshidi’s office hours, 419 McAlliste
      • Wednesday 4/22 2:30 – 3:20, Class – Case Study – “Opportunities in Sustainability at PSU” – Susannah Barsom.   Dr Barsom is Director of Academic Programs at Penn State’s Sustainability Institute.
      • Thursday 4/23, 10:30 – 12:00, John Roe’s office hours, 204 McAllister
      • Friday 4/24, NO CLASS TODAY

Readings for  classes are available at

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/hcybveug0txcrdh/AAANwF70aqdBlqlD

For Monday’s class we will continue studying decision making in networks – that is, where your neighbor’s decisions affect what you do.  The class readings from the Easley-Kleinberg book, has been posted.  Please read sections 6.4 and 6.5, and 8.1 and 8.2

 

Sustainability Institute welcomes responsible business thought leader on April 18

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(This is from Sue Barsom at the PSU Suustainability Institute)

Carol Sanford, author of “The Responsible Business” and “The Responsible Entrepreneur,” will be a featured speaker on April 18 during the Sustainability Institute’s inaugural Reinvention Fund Symposium.

Sanford has consulted with companies such as Seventh Generation, Intel, Dupont, and Colgate-Palmolive, and her work has also been used in a Google Innovation Lab. Sanford’s books are required reading at leading business schools including Harvard, Stanford, Haas Berkeley and MIT.

She holds undergraduate degrees from UC Berkeley in Economics and Public Law and a graduate degree from California State University, San Jose in Urban Planning.

Central to Sanford’s philosophy and approach is a fresh look at what makes an organization truly innovative and responsible. “It’s important to find out what differentiates a business from the crowd,” Sanford says, “and then thinking about how to innovate in business so that workers/suppliers, communities, societies, and ecology, investors — as a whole, are improved. These are not separate but interwoven pursuits. It’s completely doable, and a conversation worth having.”

Sanford’s April 18 keynote address “Catalyzing Innovation: Local Economies, Entrepreneurship and Education in a Living Systems Paradigm” will be held from 1:30 to 2:45 p.m. in Ballrooms CDE of the Nittany Lion Inn.

Sanford’s lecture is sponsored by Penn State’s Sustainability Institute and the Reinvention Fund. A question and answer session will follow. Visit sustainability.psu.edu for the Reinvention Fund Symposium full agenda. The symposium and Sanford’s keynote address are free and open to the public.

For more information about Carol Sanford, visit carolsanford.com or watch her talk from TedXBerkeley.

For more information about sustainability at Penn State visit www.sustainability.psu.edu.

Events Schedule for Week 13

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Here is the schedule for the coming week

      • Monday 4/13,  2:30 – 3:20, Class – Case Study “Climate Networks” –  John Baez (UC Riverside)
      • Monday 4/13,  4:00-5:00, Kaley Weinstein’s office hour and tech support (101 McAllister)
      • Tuesday 4/14 3:30-4:30, Sara Jamshidi’s office hours, 419 McAllister
      • Tuesday 4/13 6:00-8:00 PARTY at John and Liane Roe’s house.  Directions/invitation have been sent by email.   RSVP if you plan to be there, and hope many of you can make it!
      • Wednesday 4/15 2:30 – 3:20, Class – Unit 4.2
      • Thursday 4/16, 10:30 – 12:00, John Roe’s office hours, 204 McAllister
      • Friday 4/17, 2:30 – 3:20, Unit 4.2 (continued)

Readings for  classes are available at

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/hcybveug0txcrdh/AAANwF70aqdBlqlD

For Wednesday and Friday classes we will be looking at decision making in networks – that is, where your neighbor’s decisions affect what you do.  The class reading, Chapter 6 of the Easley-Kleinberg book, has been posted.  Please study sections 6.1 through 6.4 for Wednesday.

 

Events schedule for week 12

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Here is the schedule for the coming week

      • Monday 4/6,  2:30 – 3:20, Class – Case Study “The Bystander Effect” – this will take up some of our probability ideas and use them to lead in to the last part of the course, on network theory.
      • Monday 4/6,  4:00-5:00, Kaley Weinstein’s office hour and tech support (101 McAllister)
      • Monday 4/6, 3:30 to Wednesday 4/8, 2:30, Midterm 2 available via ANGEL
      • Tuesday 4/7 3:30-4:30, Sara Jamshidi’s office hours, 419 McAllister
      • Wednesday 4/8 2:30 – 3:20, Class – Review of Midterm 2
      • Thursday 4/9, 10:30 – 12:00, John Roe’s office hours, 204 McAllister
      • Friday 4/10, 2:30 – 3:20, Unit 4.1
      • Tuesday 4/14, party at John and Liane Roe’s house.  RSVP via email please.

Readings for  classes are available at

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/hcybveug0txcrdh/AAANwF70aqdBlqlD

Events schedule for week 11

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Here is the schedule for the coming week

      • Monday 3/30,  2:30 – 3:20, Class Unit  3.5 (115 Osmond) – this will be a presentation about the Stern Review and how its methodology relates to the discussion in Unit 3.4
      • Monday 3/30,  4:00-5:00, Kaley Weinstein’s office hour and tech support (101 McAllister)
      • Tuesday 3/31 3:30-4:30, Sara Jamshidi’s office hours, 419 McAllister
      • Wednesday 4/1 2:30 – 3:20, Class – Case Study – Chris Uhl (Professor of Biology)
      • Thursday 4/2, 10:30 – 12:00, John Roe’s office hours, 204 McAllister
      • Friday 4/3, 2:30 – 3:20, Unit 3 Review (115 Osmond)
      • Monday 4/6, case study and second midterm exam (Monday-Wednesday)

Readings for  classes are available at

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/hcybveug0txcrdh/AAANwF70aqdBlqlD

Events schedule week 10

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Here is the schedule for the tenth week of class.

  • Monday 3/23,  2:30 – 3:20, Class Unit  3.3 (115 Osmond)
  • Monday 3/23,  4:00-5:00, Kaley Weinstein’s office hour and tech support (101 McAllister)
  • Tuesday 3/24 3:30-4:30, Sara Jamshidi’s office hours, 419 McAllister
  • Wednesday 3/25 2:30 – 3:20, Class – Case Study –  Blogging with Mathematics (instructional team)
  • Thursday 3/26, 10:30 – 12:00, John Roe’s office hours, 204 McAllister
  • Friday 3/27, 2:30 – 3:20, Class Unit 3.4 (115 Osmond)
  • Friday 3/27, second blogging period ends.

Readings for  classes are available at

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/hcybveug0txcrdh/AAANwF70aqdBlqlD5

Student groups on sustainability

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Someone asked me after class yesterday whether I could point them to a list of student groups or clubs related to the theme of the class.

Asking around, I found that PSU’s Sustainability Institute maintains a list of such groups at

http://sustainability.psu.edu/student-groups

The groups range from ones with a very specific campus focused mission  to ones with a wider community or global mission.  If you are looking to follow up on the course experience, perhaps one of these will be the right opportunity.

I should mention also that towards the end of the semester, Susannah Barsom of Sustainability Institute will do one of our “case study” sessions to talk about other academic and non-academic opportunities to work on sustainability issues during your time at PSU.

Events Schedule Week 9

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Here is the schedule for the ninth week of class.

  • Monday 3/16,  2:30 – 3:20, Class Unit  3.1 (115 Osmond)
  • Monday 3/16,  4:00-5:00, Kaley Weinstein’s office hour and tech support (101 McAllister)
  • Tuesday 3/17 3:30-4:30, Sara Jamshidi’s office hours, 419 McAllister
  • Wednesday 3/18 2:30 – 3:20, Class – Case Study –  Andrew Gutberlet (PSU Office of Physical Plant)
  • Thursday 3/19, 10:30 – 12:00, John Roe’s office hours, 204 McAllister
  • Friday 3/20, 2:30 – 3:20, Class Unit 3.2 (115 Osmond)

Readings for  classes are available at

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/hcybveug0txcrdh/AAANwF70aqdBlqlD5

Events Schedule Week 7

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Here is the schedule for the seventh week of class.

  • Monday 2/23,  2:30 – 3:20, Class Unit  2.3 (115 Osmond)
  • Monday 2/23, 4:00-5:00, Kaley Weinstein’s office hour and tech support (101 McAllister)
  • Tuesday 2/24 3:30-4:30, Sara Jamshidi’s office hours, 419 McAllister
  • Wednesday 2/25 2:30 – 3:20, Class – Case Study –  Darla Lindberg (Professor of Architecture at PSU)
  • Thursday 2/26, 10:30 – 12:00, John Roe’s office hours, 204 McAllister
  • Friday 2/27, 2:30 – 3:20, Class – Case Study – Peak Oil (John Roe)

Readings for  classes are available at

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/hcybveug0txcrdh/AAANwF70aqdBlqlD5