Ken Hiltner
  • KenHiltner.com
  • English 22
  • English 23
  • English 24
  • forward2nature.com
  • NCNconference.com
  • Walden
    • Beginning
    • Preface
    • Table of Contents
    • Editor’s Introduction
    • Economy
    • Where I Lived & What I lived For
    • Reading
    • Sounds
    • Solitude
    • Visitors
    • The Bean-Field
    • The Village
    • The Ponds
    • Baker Farm
    • Higher Laws
    • Brute Neighbors
    • House-Warming
    • Former Inhabitants & Winter Visitors
    • Winter Animals
    • The Pond in Winter
    • Spring
    • Conclusion
    • On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
  • Menu Menu

Back to Syllabus

ENGLISH 23

(A.K.A. CLIMATE CRISIS 101)

Week #8

Communicating climate change, through words and actions

Weekly Assignments

Reading

This week’s reading is the chapter on “Communicating Climate Change Science” (Chapter 8) from the book Bending the Curve: Climate Change Solutions, which is a University of California publication. Note that, while the link is to a PDF of the entire book, you are only required to read Chapter 8.

After reading it, please comment on it in the weekly Canvas reading discussion.

Films

Please watch either the documentary Being the Change: Live Well and Spark a Climate Revolution or Tomorrow (Demain) according to these guidelines:

1) If you have NOT taken Eng 22 (Intro to L & E) in 2019, 2020, 2021, or 2022, please watch Being the Change. It is available for viewing on GauchoSpace (GauchoCast). If you are not enrolled in the class, it currently can be rented for a relatively modest fee from Amazon.

2) If you have taken taken Eng 22 in 2019, 2020, 2021, or 2022, please instead watch Tomorrow. It is up on GauchoCast. If you are not enrolled in the class, it currently can be rented for a relatively modest fee from YouTube, Amazon, Google, etc.

After watching the above films, please go to Canvas to make a comment on them.

Lecture videos

The following two lectures will be delivered live in Campbell Hall during the Tuesday and Thursday class periods. If you miss class or would like to review them (for exam prep, for example), here they are. For your convenience, they can be accessed below as either PDFs, audio podcasts, or YouTube videos.

Reading 8, Communicating the Climate Crisis (2024)

download as a PDF / watch as a video / listen to as a podcast

Note that, while listening to this section being narrated, you could also read along. Some people find that such “Immersion Reading” helps them concentrate and learn better. Feel free to give it a try.

Film 8, Being the Change and Tomorrow (2024)

download as a PDF / watch as a video / listen to as a podcast

Note that, while listening to this section being narrated, you could also read along. Some people find that such “Immersion Reading” helps them concentrate and learn better. Feel free to give it a try.

In addition, please watch, read, or listen to the following short lectures.

Climate and Generation, Part #1

The climate crisis as a generational issue (2024)

download as a PDF / watch as a video / listen to as a podcast

Note that, while listening to this section being narrated, you could also read along. Some people find that such “Immersion Reading” helps them concentrate and learn better. Feel free to give it a try.

Climate and Generation, Part #2

How the climate crisis was brought about in a single lifetime (2024)

download as a PDF / watch as a video / listen to as a podcast

Note that, while listening to this section being narrated, you could also read along. Some people find that such “Immersion Reading” helps them concentrate and learn better. Feel free to give it a try.

Climate and Generation, Part #3

Why the generation that caused the climate crisis is not acting (2024)

download as a PDF / watch as a video / listen to as a podcast

Note that, while listening to this section being narrated, you could also read along. Some people find that such “Immersion Reading” helps them concentrate and learn better. Feel free to give it a try.

Climate and Generation, Part #4

What a new generation can do to mitigate the climate crisis (2024)

download as a PDF / watch as a video / listen to as a podcast

Note that, while listening to this section being narrated, you could also read along. Some people find that such “Immersion Reading” helps them concentrate and learn better. Feel free to give it a try.

Climate and Generation, Part #5

Can one generation do what previous generations failed to do? (2024)

download as a PDF / watch as a video / listen to as a podcast

Note that, while listening to this section being narrated, you could also read along. Some people find that such “Immersion Reading” helps them concentrate and learn better. Feel free to give it a try.

Climate and Generation, Part #6

What the Boomer generation knew about the climate crisis – and when we knew it (2024)

download as a PDF / watch as a video / listen to as a podcast

Note that, while listening to this section being narrated, you could also read along. Some people find that such “Immersion Reading” helps them concentrate and learn better. Feel free to give it a try.

Scroll to top