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Practicing Poverty D-Lab I: Development

For the next week, limit your spending to $2 per day. Try to minimize your reliance on pre-existing resources (such as using food that is in the pantry, eating your room-mates leftovers etc.).

 Other, Paper Experiential Learning Development SDG 1 - No Poverty
Practical Photovoltaics Design D-Lab I: Development

You are in charge of designing a solar panel installation for a rural health post. The requirements for the given location are as follows:

  • There is a 220W freezer that needs to run 24/7
  • The health post is open until 9pm, and, on average, they have to turn the lights on from 6pm until they close. Given their needs, it seems that the most adequate installation would be 2 fluorescent lights of 15W each.
  • They have an amateur radio to communicate with the clinic in the city, that consumes 40W, and it is usually on for two hours every day.
  • The health post is staffed every day of the year.

 

 Worksheet Experiential Learning Development, Energy SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure
Poster & Presentation Global Cityscope - Disaster Planning and Post-Disaster Rebuilding and Recovery

Create a poster about your project. Your poster should speak to the planning issue(s) in New Orleans that you are researching and writing about. What question can you ask that will pull a reader into your poster and get him/her thinking about your project? What issues are you working on? What data have you gathered? What story can you tell about your planning issue in New Orleans?

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Alternatively, create a poster for your client's needs. This poster could inform neighborhood groups about a particular planning issue. This poster could graphically showcase how citizens can understand design standards easily and efficiently, and/or this poster could help citizens understand the importance of using public transportation. In other words, it could be used as part of a community campaign to bring attention to a planning issue in New Orleans. Posters will be made part of an exhibit that showcases the work of our students working in New Orleans. Posters should be 20”x30”, either direction.

 Poster Experiential Learning Urban Studies SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities & Communities
Planning for Growth in the Lower Mystic (Assignment 4) Urban Transportation and Planning

After assessing the level of growth projected from the various developments in the Lower Mystic area, the impacts and capacity constraints of major transportation infrastructure in the area, and projected and estimated mode shares, now it's your turn to propose as individuals how to achieve a transportation plan that can maintain and improve access to jobs and opportunities while supporting the plans and goals of the surrounding cities.

 Memo Place-Based Learning Urban Studies SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities & Communities
Personal Energy Consumption D-Lab I: Development

Determine your average daily energy consumption (in kWh). For this assignment, you can take into account only the electricity that you use, though you should be aware that there are additional energy expenditures in terms of transportation, heating, manufacturing processes to make the products that you use, etc. You should submit this as a table showing your energy consumption (power x time) for a few days and then come up with an average value.

 Other Experiential Learning Development, Energy SDG 7 - Affordable & Clean Energy
Partnerships/Enterprises D-Lab: Waste

Third Reflection
Subject: Waste Management Partnership / Enterprise / Actor

The third paper is a chance to select either a:

  • Specific actor (for example: Waste Management, Save that Stuff, Wecyclers, Sanergy, Enevo, etc.)
  • Specific partnership (for example: Casella and the City of Cambridge)

 

 Paper Other Waste SDG 6 - Clean Water & Sanitation
Paper Two Anthropology of Biology

Write a paper on one of the topics below. A strong paper will move beyond answering the question to advancing and defending an argument of your own about why the dynamics you discuss unfold as they do.

 

 Paper Other Biology Varies
Paper Three Anthropology of Biology

For this paper, you may choose your own topic, so long as it is about the cultural, political, religious, and / or economic dimensions of biological science—in short, so long as it is about matters we have discussed in class. 

 Paper Inquiry-Based Learning Biology Varies
Paper One Anthropology of Biology

Write a 7-page paper on one of the topics below. A strong paper will move beyond answering the question to advancing and defending an argument of your own about why the dynamics you discuss unfold as they do.

 

 Paper Other Biology Varies
Paper 2: Providing Expert Advice Energy, Environment, and Society: Global Politics, Technologies, And Ecologies of the Water-Energy-Food Crises

Wakanda's president recently created an interagency commission to address the challenges and opportunities in developing a policy framework of this nature. The interagency commission has called for a group of experts including: industrial leaders, worker's unions, local communities, scientists, social scientists, policy scholars, and foreign experts on comparative environmental governance.

You are one of the members of this last group. Your job is to advise how to better discuss, design, and implement a policy framework considering ecological, social, economic, and political aspects.

 Paper Other Energy, Environment, Society SDG 7 - Affordable & Clean Energy

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