ENST 162 - Finding Your Place in the Climate Fight

Semester Offered: Fall
0.5 unit(s)

This is an all-hands-on-deck moment in human history. Everyone is needed right now in the fight against climate change and for environmental justice – whatever their talents, skills, or interests. This intensive is designed to help students find their roles in the climate fight in their lives after Vassar. We have two central texts. All We Can Save is a collection of 41 essays and 17 poems, all by women. The essayists include journalists, farmers, lawyers, designers, activists, architects, scientists, policy-makers, entrepreneurs, ocean farmers, and more, each writing about a different way of contributing to the climate fight. Drawdown is a comprehensive and rigorous study of the potential impacts of one hundred climate solutions, from urban design to regenerative agriculture to alternative cement manufacturing to girls’ education in the developing world. Each student in the Intensive undertakes a research project centering on a climate career or climate solution of their choice. Jeffrey Seidman.

One 2-hour period.

Course Format: INT