Week 4 Questions

Hi Students!

These questions are follow-up responses to our discussion about the Ted Talk "Ron Finley: Guerrilla Gardener." What an interesting Ted Talk! I enjoyed your discussion responses today in class, and I thoroughly look forward to your reading your responses to one of the following two questions (please answer one question based on the number I gave you in class). Feel free to use outside references if you feel that it allows you to more strongly support your view. Please just be sure to post a link to your source (no need for formal citations in your blog response). Here are the questions:

1. What exactly is the health impact of eating food grown in city gardens in heavily polluted cities?

2. Do the benefits of public gardens outweigh the drawbacks?

Happy Writing!

Week 3 Question

Hi students!

We've got a great question here from Andres on the role of national governments in establishing/enforcing laws in controversial industries like ship-breaking. I look forward to reading your responses. Here is the question:

What should the role of the Bangladeshi government be in the ship-breaking industry? Please explain your answer with explanation and examples if possible. 

Happy writing!

Josh

Week 2 Blog Response

Hi students,

It's amazing how fast the first week went by. I know that we had a lot of general class information to cover, but overall, I think we are off to a good start. Thank you for your responses to last week's question. I look forward to reading and commenting on them during the next two days. For this week's question, I'd like to turn our focus to our week 2 theme: waste disposal. More specifically, I'd like you to think about some of the ideas discussed in Diogenes' excellent presentation. Here is the discussion question (slightly revised) that you chose as a class:

Will incineration as a method of waste disposal increase in different countries and cities around the world? Why or why not?

I look forward to reading your responses. Happy writing!

Josh