1. Sustainability Freshman Inquiry Nov. 18, 2010 Jeff Fletcher

2. Logistics Test next Tuesday (Nov. 23) –Suggested Questions –Questions? Readings on Health & Food (due Nov. 23) –Why Are We So Fat? The New Yorker, Elizabeth Kolbert (July 20, 2009)Why Are We So Fat? –Big Food vs Big Insurance New York Times, Michael Pollan (Sept 9, 2009)Big Food vs Big Insurance William Powers at the Social Sustainability Colloquium on campus Nov 19 (Friday1-3pm) Room 620 Student Recreation Center –Twelve by Twelve: A One Room Cabin Off The Grid & Beyond the American Dream, Group Presentations –Today in mentor session, also meet on your own, sometime next Tuesday –Use of Discussion area on Blackboard, exchange contact info in groups –Goal: an integrated, informative, practiced presentation Grading (audio files) Mentor Sessions next term –Stay put vs. lottery –Academic conflicts UNST Advising Day for FRINQ students. (in the lounge in front of FRINQ labs first floor Cramer Hall –Monday, November 22nd from 10-2 and –Tuesday, November 23rd from 10-2.

3. If we only had time….. Islands at risk: GMOs in Hawaii (from Reiki): –http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQDOdnRB Lqchttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQDOdnRB Lqc –(skip first 1:35, ~29 minutes)

4. Water Readings –Sell the rain: How the privatization of water caused riots in Cochabamba, Bolivia Connie Watson, CBC Radio (Feb. 4, 2003)Sell the rain –Water Revolt (Timeline): Cochabamba, Bolivia, Frontline, Public Broadcasting System (PBS) (June 2002)Water Revolt –Who Will Bring Water to the Bolivian Poor? New York Times (Dec. 15, 2005)Who Will Bring Water to the Bolivian Poor? –(optional): What's in Your Water Bottle? Frontline, Public Broadcasting System (PBS) (June 2002)What's in Your Water Bottle? –(optional): Letter From Bolivia: Leasing the Rain, The New Yorker William Finnegan (April 8, 2002) Nestle in the Columbia GorgeLetter From Bolivia: Leasing the Rain Nestle in the Gorge, Cascade Locks –http://portlandtribune.com/sustainable/story.php?story_id=12890217553 7940200http://portlandtribune.com/sustainable/story.php?story_id=12890217553 7940200 Blue Gold –http://www.bluegold-worldwaterwars.com/http://www.bluegold-worldwaterwars.com/

5. Blue Gold (So Far) Privatization –Forces for –Forces against Other themes –Corruption –Corporations rights –Moving water out of watershed –World Bank / IMF –Pending Water Wars