...Protecting our Beautiful Nature “You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow.” –Tony Robbins Course Introduction: Here at Los Angeles Design and Architecture College (LADAC), we believe that it is imperative to have an education with a delicate balance between business and liberal arts focused on the environment. We aim to provide the most hands-on and forward thinking education tailored to each individual student. The goal of our curriculum is to offer an innovative curriculum that fosters a sense of creativity in our students in order to provide a gateway for her/his futures as global leaders, while maintaining a strong value for character and the environment. Throughout this course, and your education at LADAC, you will be required to take several liberal arts classes that enable you to earn your degree in Sustainable Architecture or Design with a focus in Entrepreneurial Thought and Action. Our course will feature four units titled: I. “Mapping Environmental Change” II. “Understanding (Our) Place in (Disturbing) Nature” III. “Restoring the Imagination of Place” IV. “Preserving and Protecting our Beautiful Landscape” How the course relates to the ideals of LADAC? Throughout this course, we will explore various questions and topics surrounding the broad topic of “Nature and the Environment.” These questions...
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...Summarize the book. What is being discussed? Rob Nixon of the New York Times called Naomi Klein’s “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate” “a book of such ambition and consequence that it is almost unreviewable.[1]” Naomi Klein researches the impact of Climate change and its relationship with free market capitalism. She discusses capitalism as failed economic system. She goes into great depth on the subject of resource extraction, pollution and the events of surrounding the affected communities in these regions across the world. However, rather than concluding that things are hopeless Naomi Klein argues that: We can build something better and reclaim our economic system. She argues that the market cannot save us. We have the tools/technology to get off of fossil fuels, but it requires leaving free market capitalism behind. We need to rebuild local economies, reign in corporate power and reclaim democracy. She argues that we aren’t all the all powerful saviours of the planet, but that as visitors on the earth we have to save ourselves from an earth that is rocking, burning and driving humanity into extinction because of our actions. Describe the three most important arguments or claims made in the book. The first argument Naomi Klein makes is that world leaders and climate scientists agree if we are going to avoid truly catastrophic consequences of climate change; we need to restrict the earth's warming to 2 deg celcius. Beyond that, the earth's systems start to...
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