Environmental Biology

Instructor: Steven Clark            Clark Community College        sclark@clark.edu

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Find your four favorite topics.  Rank them 1-4 (put a number in the margin next to the topic you are interested in). 

• Alternative forms of housing

  • Straw bale

  • Cob

  • Super small house

  • Other?

• Means of encouraging family planning to prevent over-population

• Freshwater availability/water consumption

• Alternative forms of transportation/fuels

• Nuclear energy plants (there is pressure to build more—can they be environmentally sound?

• Decline of amphibians

• Genetically modified foods and the environment

• What to do with unwanted plastics

  • Recycling

  • Land fills

  • Other?

• Sustainable seafood (this may involve by-catch as well as targeted catch)

• Environmental costs of eating more animal protein—milk, eggs, fish and meat

• Lowering the use of pesticides and fertilizers in farming

• The relationship between poor countries and destruction of biodiversity

• Worldwide chemical contamination