Week of March 30-April 3

Starter:  Walk and talk.  How was LINK and Spring Break? Share highlights!  Shake it off!

This Week's Goals: 

• Reintegrate into the atmosphere
• Understand the basic elements of the "Energy and Place"project
• Explore the question: How does energy production impact place?

1. Energy and Place Project Overview 

• Questions?

2. Self-Guided Learning Assignment:  Energy and Place Activity List

• Essential Question: How does energy production impact place?

RESOURCES AND LINKS FOR ACTIVITY LIST:
If you are using a paper version of the activity list, here are the links you will need to the materials. There are paper versions of readings available as well.

Bakken Business
1. Videos
Short Film about the Bakken
 2 minute video on benefits of fracking
2 minute video on risks of fracking
2. Reading: "Bakken Business"

Environmental Justice and NIMBYism

TEXT #1: The 17 Principles, according to the People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit

TEXT #2:  CancerAlley Trailer 

TEXT #3:  “The environment is where we live”

(You don’t have to read the whole thing- just 4 pages of the PRINTED version or through the first paragraph of page 3 on the online version, which starts with “Here in Mountain View” and ends with “A new assortment of individuals became dedicated to pursuing environmental justice here”.  You are, of course, welcome to read the whole thing.) 

TEXT #4:  NIMBYISM AND RENEWABLES

                                                                                                                        

TEXT #5: Freakonomics Podcast: “Why Bad Environmentalism is such an Easy Sell”

Pinon Ridge Uranium Mine Town Hall Debate

Links to Readings

§  Watch the film trailer to Uranium Drive-In and read the film summary to the right of the video on this website : http://uraniumdrivein.com/

§  Check out some Google Images of Uranium Mills

§  http://pinonridgemill.com/

·         This is the website for Energy Fuel, the nuclear power development company in charge of building and running the proposed mill.

·         ***Use this sub-link particular to figure out how health risks will be controlled:
http://pinonridgemill.com/operations.html

§  http://www.examiner.com/article/pinon-ridge-uranium-mill-one-step-closer-to-special-use-permit

·         This article summarizes a town meeting in 2009 to hear from opponents and proponents to the mill.  It summarizes pros and cons.

§  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/28/fukushima-cancer-rates-risks_n_2779729.html  

·         This article discusses the cancer risks after the Fukishima nuclear power plant explosion

§  http://www.hcn.org/wotr/a-uranium-mill-makes-no-sense-in-western-colorado

·         This is an article in High Country News by a Telluride resident who argues against the mill.

§  Optional: Colorado Government Report on Health Risks of the Pinon Ridge Mill